Wordpress Update 2.3 Rocks!

Their was a new update for wordpress, version 2.3 personally I love this update for several reasons.

1: I can kick out a load of plugin’s,before I had around 20 or so doing a lot of things, but after this update it is now doing a lot more for example the tags in your write post/page that kicks out a few of my plugins by itself, especially Ultimate Tag Warrior, but I occasionally use it for the keyword suggestions.

2: More editor buttons, now if you do most of your work in the WebUI then you will love this, not only can you clean up the coding but you can also colour your text this has taken tinymc editor to the next level and saves me making my own modifications to it, I am also using my wordpress blog instead of google doc’s and spreadsheets.

Stopping Spam Getting Throught.

Spam its on the increase constantly, so you need to be aware of how to block it.

1. Akismet - very popular way to catch spam, for me it has only ever let 3 through out of around 2,000 so its my number one.

2. Change the settings in discussion (options >> discussion), a important one i find is ticking “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” this will then only allow people that commented previously to comment again.

3. Stats programs for Wordpress, these can be brilliant tools to use against spammers, I use one called Popularity Contest this will tell you what posts are most commented on even after the spam has been removed, then you can edit the post to disable commenting, I’ve found in some cases its practically halfed my spam count!

Adding to my Posts

Well today I’m dedicating this day to fix some of my old posts, trying to link them together and get a little more traffic to my site by adding meta tag descriptions and keywords.

But the reason I’ve decided to do this is because when I made my new theme I didn’t put in my meta tags, which was a slight change in my traffic it went down. So I need to start getting my meta tags back, their has been many previous posts so after adding the meta tags give it maybe a month or so and I’m hoping to have some more traffic coming from the search engines.

Do you thing meta tags are worth the trouble?

Comments Are Good So Why…

Comments are a good way of getting extra content yet blogs that I look at they don’t always encourage this in ways that will help.

1.Asking questions on your blog brilliant way to get people to comment.

2.Replying to your fellow commenter’s this is where most bloggers fall down I think, if i post a comment on someone’s blog and don’t get a reply that’s it I’m out of their, but when someone replies to me i click on the feed and add it to my Google homepage.

3.Keep them commenting on a article they post a comment try and squish in another question that they or another person will reply too this yet again means more content = more visitors.

Commenter’s are the best thing for your blog to hit success, if you talk to them in a good manner they will help you on your way to stardom so people lets get commenter’s!