Reading Time: < 1 minWordPress has just announced that a new version of their popular app is coming soon. They haven’t given many specifics yet, but the new app: Will require OS 3.0 (which most folks have already). Will feature an updated UI Will have a “slew of behind the scenes updates”, to make the app faster and more […]
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A great video with some WordPress SEO tips
Reading Time: < 1 minHere’s an excellent video with some SEO tips for WordPress-driven sites. This was given by Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts. He mentions his excellent “SEO Title Tag” plug-in, which can be found here. The video is about 30 minutes long, but well worth watching. Even if you’re a WordPress SEO expert, you’re bound to pull a […]
Question and Answer time
Reading Time: < 1 minDo you have a question releated to Search Engine Optimzation, AdSense, WordPress, or a related topic? E-mail me (mickey@mickmelseo.com) and I’ll round them up and post the answers in a few days. Thanks!
Need help getting more traffic to your blog?
Reading Time: 2 minI apologize for not posting very much lately. I’ve been working with a handful of bloggers to try to get their traffic (and revenue) beefed up, and I’ve not had much time for this site lately. The techniques I’m using are really working quite well, and now I’m opening it up to other people. I […]
WordPress app now available for the iPhone
Reading Time: < 1 minAs first revealed on Mobileography, the WordPress app for the iPhone is now available in iTunes! This is a slick little (free) app that makes it easy to write/edit posts and your WordPress blog. This works with WordPress.com blogs or any self-hosted blog that is version 2.5.1 or higher. My only complaint so far is […]
A cool little WordPress tip — upload an image from a URL
Reading Time: < 1 minI always thought there were two options for adding an image to a WordPress post: Upload it through the image manager. Enter a URL and “hotlink” it from there. It turns out there’s a third, as described by wp-fun — upload and crunch directly from the net. When you click on “choose files to upload”, […]
WordPress Redirection plug-in is perfect
Reading Time: < 1 minThis isn’t a new plug-in, but it’s new to me and I love it! I recently converted one of my sites from a custom CMS to WordPress mu. I manually 301 redirected some of the popular pages, but decided to let the rest of them die off. However, I just installed the Redirection plug-in and […]
My updated WordPress ping list
Reading Time: < 1 minLike most blog software, WordPress will ping a list of services each time you write a post. I’ve spent the last hour or two refining my list and I think it’s pretty solid. Feel free to use this on your own blog if you’d like. in WordPress, just go to [settings] and then [writing], and […]
Don’t forget to add a SECRET_KEY to WordPress
Reading Time: < 1 minIf you’re like me and you’ve been using WordPress since before 2.5 came out, your wp-config file is probably missing a “SECRET_KEY”. This is a new, one-line entry to the config file that generates a unique cookie for your site. Some of the recent WordPress attacks have involved cookie spoofing, and this will help prevent […]
WordPress in the next iPhone?
Reading Time: < 1 minJohn Lamansky, the “WordPress Expert” has noticed a little snippet of text from WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg that implies we may see WordPress in the next iPhone. The quote John used: Mobile is really important. Blackberries, iPhones… and other things… are coming. And I’d like that to be in a core cell phone. They were […]