Using Technology To Solve Problems and Create Solutions
How often do you back up the data on your computer? I’ll bet it is not enough.
What about your website? Most of us rely on our hosting company to handle our data backup for us but what happens if there is a problem? Are you willing to trust years worth of work to your hosting company? I didn’t think so. You need a way to backup your database. You need WordPress Database Backup.
If you have a website, chances are that you are trying to connect with people. You publish some kind of content in the hopes that visitors will comment, chat, or interact with you in some way. For many people, commenting on other sites is a way to expand their influence, attract new visitors to their own sites, and share their information. A great way to encourage that behavior on your site is to reward those who interact with you and what better way to reward people than through DoFollow links. If this sounds like a good idea, keep reading, the Top Commentators Widget is just what you need.
We all want to interact with readers. We all want backlinks when we comment on other blogs. What no one wants is comment spam.
Comment spam is a fact of life on the web. If you have a site that allows comments, sooner or later, the spammers will find you. Mostly, these comments are just an annoyance but when allowed to remain on your site, they give readers the impression that you are not paying attention to your site and readers. Just imagine how it looks to a new reader to see a bunch of comments only to realize that every one of them is junk. In their minds, if you haven’t taken the time to remove the spam comments, there is no way you will be responding to real comments from real readers.
I doubt if there is any way to completely avoid spam comments, but here are some ideas to help: [Read more…]
Picture yourself on a new site. You were bored, wandering around on StumbleUpon hoping to find something interesting when after several pages, you settled on one that looked promising. The information is really good, well written, and just what you needed. After looking around, you realize the site is huge. Hundred upon hundreds of posts await your reading. Where do you begin? You could look at the list of related posts at the bottom of the page you are on, but on the side, you see two words that catch your attention: Popular Posts.
Imagine yourself as a new visitor to a website. A couple of your friends have talked about it and you decided to check this one out. You head to the home page and find a few posts that look interesting. Enjoying those posts, you jump into the archive to find more. Overall, the website has great information but about 75% of the content is about subjects that don’t interest you. After looking at 15 of the over 100 pages of archives and only finding a few posts you are interested about, you get a call and close out the browser. If only you had some way to identify other posts related to the ones you liked.
Keeping readers attention and interest can be difficult at times. You can be the best writer on the web, but if the subjects you are writing about don’t interest the reader at that time, you will lose him or her. To help keep the readers interest, writers will often link back to previous posts within the context of a new post when appropriate. That works great if you can fit in those links but sometimes, you just can’t. In those times, you need some way to identify posts that are similar to the one you are writing. You need YARPP. [Read more…]