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Wordpress Plugin installation help

Date: 7th April 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Admin posts, Blogging, Musings
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wpSince we posted our guide to installing Wordpress Plugins we’ve had a lot of emails asking for help.

Not everyone wants to, or indeed can, install their plugins themselves and get them running, but it seems that lots of you want to install plugins on your blogs and don’t know where to turn.

So we’re offering Wordpress plugin installation help on a first come, first served basis for a nominal fee (much as we would like to do this for nothing, the amount of requests we’ve had would have meant we’d do no paying work for at least a week!)

Are your efforts online paying off? Really?

Date: 7th April 2010
Comments: 6 Related Categories: Admin posts, Blogging, Musings, Tracking, facebook, twitter
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TWO DOLLAR BILLIt’s all very well frantically beavering away: Facebooking this, Tweeting that, Blogging here, Commenting there, updating your YouTube Channel and spending an age answering questions on LinkedIn – but  are you tracking and measuring the results of all this activity?

I know that if you do all of this work yourself, in theory it costs you nothing, but your time still has a value, right? Even if you don’t always charge your hourly rate, you must have one in mind, so for every hour you spend on your Social Media and Internet Marketing efforts, that’s how much it’s cost you. OK not in cold hard cash, but that’s an hour / a day / a week you haven’t billed out your time, so for the sake of this example let’s say that’s what you’re spending on your online marketing.

Your Facebook Fan Page and SEO

Date: 6th April 2010
No Comments Related Categories: Google, Musings, Social Networking, facebook
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npAlthough the main purpose of a Facebook fan page isn’t for SEO, there’s no point ignoring SEO completely, so it was nice to come across this article on SEO for your Facebook Fan page on the SaveDelete blog.

Please go and read it over there, but in the interests of this post being more than 5 lines, I’ve summarised the bullet points below.

  • Use your brand name as your Fan Page name
  • Select the best Facebook username for your fanpage
  • Install static FBML and create additional tabs and boxes
  • Use the ‘about’ text box for optimisation of your fanpage

How do I install a Wordpress plugin on my Wordpress blog?

Date: 31st March 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Blogging, Musings
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We’ve had quite a few enquiries recently saying “I want to install such and such a plugin on my Wordpress blog, how do I do it?” so I thought a blog post was in order.

There are 2 ways to install plugins – through your admin panel and ‘manually’ – below are Wordpress’s own instructions regarding how to do both.

Through the admin panel is easiest – log in and then:

From the Administration Panels, click on the Plugin tab. Once you have uploaded a plugin to your WordPress plugin directory, activate it from the Plugins Management page, and sit back and watch your plugin work.

Will I be penalised if my articles are republished on other sites as duplicate content?

Date: 29th March 2010
Comments: 4 Related Categories: Articles, Blogging, Content, Musings
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Mirror imageWe get asked this a lot – when people look into our Article Marketing services, one of the first questions they ask is “But won’t I be penalised for having duplicate content online?”

The simple answer is no. The web thrives on the sharing of information, and duplicate content is a part of this.

I was going to write  huge post about the different types of duplicate content, and then I noticed in my Twitter stream a message from @clairejarrett, pointing to this post from High Ranking.

As it says: