Blog Category: Blogs

I client recently asked me what is “social bookmarking”. You may have seen those little icons at the bottom of my blog posts and wondered what they heck they are for. Those are “social bookmarking” icons, and they make it easier for people who are members of social bookmarking services to bookmark my blog articles. I found this wonderful video that explains social bookmarking, in particular, “del.icio.us”, but it applies to many other services as well. Enjoy!

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I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking what the heck is a “trackback” and a “pingback”? This is my humble attempt to explain these two types of blog to blog communication and why you might want to enable this behavior in your WordPress blog.
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I often encourage my small business clients to add WordPress blogs to their websites. WordPress blogs are a wonderful way to add relevant content that attracts visitors. Before visitors can find your WordPress blog article though, the search engines, like Google, need to crawl over your blog article and index it. How long does it take for search engines to become aware of a blog article, crawl it and index it? Read on…
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I do WordPress blog installation and customization for my website design clients, and have developed a list of my favorite plugins. Here they are: Read the rest of this entry »

If you were like me, you used the default login “admin” to write many of your blog entries. If you use a blog reader, like me, you can see the name of the user in the feed. And if you were also like me, you often wondered: how could I change this from “admin” to my name? And perhaps you even tried and failed, like me. Here’s how to do this:

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Feedburner is a free service that can help you promote your blog. Blogging is a world unto itself, and Feedburner is a great tool to use to help get more traffic to your blog. Here’s a link to the Feedburner Blog page, that will give you an idea of some of the benefits. Here’s a list of some of the changes I’ve made to my own blog, based on joining Feedburner.

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So you’ve just gotten a new WordPress blog, perhaps Aldebaran Web Design did it for you (if so, thanks for the business!). Here is a list of things I highly recommend you configure and look into to maximize the benefit your blog will have for your small business or personal project.

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You may have heard of “weblogs” or “blogs” for short and wondered what all the fuss was about. While blogs are a great way to express your opinions on a myriad of topics, they are also an excellent way to increase visitor traffic to your website. How do they do this?
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