Entries from November 2006

EzineArticles: A Pleasant Surprise.

Date November 30, 2006

If you are marketing your website by writing articles, do not get discouraged if you do not see results right away, because one day you may be surprised as I was today. As I was checking statistics for this website, I noticed that I got an unusual amount of visitors today. This jump was no [...]

Win a $25,000 Web Site Makeover

Date November 25, 2006

Think you have an ugly e-commerce site? Now you can do something about it! Enter the Idea Catchers “Ugly E-commerce Contest” for a chance to win a custom e-commerce site, a value of up to $25,000 along with a 90 days of online marketing supporting.
Every entry will recive a complimentary personalized site review. Review will offer [...]

Google Sitemap- Yahoo and MSN join in!

Date November 16, 2006

According to Google Blog, Yahoo and MSN joined in to officially support Sitemap. While using sitemap does not guarantee that your website will be automatically included in the search engines, it does provide “helpful hints” to search engine crawlers to do a better job crawling your website.
According to the web statistics of my websites, the [...]

Protecting your WordPress Site with Akismet.

Date November 16, 2006

After trying different ways to protect my WordPress powered websites from spam comments no other toll comes close to what Akismet can do for your site.
 
While protecting your site from spam, there is a danger of turning away visitors from your site if leaving comments at your website is somewhat complicated or requires your visitor [...]

Embedding Google and YouTube videos into Your Posts

Date November 10, 2006

For quiet some time now Blogger as well as Wordpress.com users were able to display Google and YouTube videos in their blogs. If you have your WordPress site hosted privately you probably already know that embedding codes will not work withing your posts.
I have come across this plugin WPvideo that allows you to insert the [...]

Have you signed up for Weebly?

Date November 9, 2006

Weebly, a web-based website creation tool, looks quiet promising. Although they have reach the initial minimum of offered accounts, I signed up today and hopefully will be able to use this very promising tool in the future.
The video below shows you how Weebly works:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjY83SnrO1M[/video]

Spam Protection Plugin for Your Site: Update

Date November 9, 2006

I have posted few days ago “Spam Protection Plugin for Your Site” recommending Math Comment Spam Protection for your WordPress site. Fortunately for me and for my readers my post was noticed by Lorelle and this is what she had to say about my post:
If you use Akismet, Spam Karma, and Bad Behavior, in combination [...]