Web Marketing HowTo

In WordPress.com APIs: HowTo Use Akismet and WordPress.com Stats I talked about Akismet, which is Automattic’s spam-fighting plugin / service. I’ve been quite happy with how well it worked. In a year or so of use over at my other site, only 1 or 2 spam comments ever made it through. I [...]

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Increasing traffic can have some pretty different meanings. On the road, it’s another sign of frustration to follow. On the web, it’s more people coming to visit your site and see if you’ve got anything useful to say. One good way to increase your traffic can come from your fellow bloggers. [...]

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What’s a Permalink?
A permalink is nothing more than the URL to your posts and pages. It’s called a permalink because it’s something that shouldn’t change, otherwise you’ll break other people’s links to you. I’ll break them down into 2 different types:
Not Useful, AKA default:
http://domain.com/?p=123
It works for any server environment, but offers you nothing [...]

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WordPress.com API Keys
WordPress.com has an additional offering of their “API keys” that enable you to leverage features of the WordPress.com platform. Free for personal use, and cheap for businesses, this is a simple, no brainer investment in your WordPress blog. You needn’t have a blog hosted at WordPress.com, since you can just sign [...]

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