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One of the handy items worth doing with a website is highlighting specific content. It turns out that there are a number of WordPress plugins available capable of doing the work, to one degree or another. However, for me there is one that stands above the crowd:
The beauty of this tool is that it does what most of the others can but it does not conflict with the plugins I use. If you want to see the plugin in action you may view it on two of my personal sites:
Each site provides a slight variation on use of the plugin… but you’ll get the idea. It is worth noting that the plugin does require a small addition to your theme code. But the change is truly small and not very hard to accomodate; plus accurate instructions are provided with the plugin.
This is a real winner.
Tags: plugin, site, WordPress
As many of you may have noticed, I have been working on improving the ‘noticability’ of my sites using select WordPress Plugins. I can say with certainty now that the following plugins have had a very positive impact on my SEO rankings but more importantly on my site traffic. The plugins I refer to are:
- YARPP- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin- I use this plugin with customized settings (variable per site and my business objectives) to improve cross-linking of information on my site. This not only improves some of the ratings in Google but seems to have a positive impact on whether or not people stay on the site and look at additional related information. AND.. since I am in the business of providing information to people, this serves a very improtant function. (Similar functionality can be made available via Simple Tags– although I find this plugin superior.)
- All in One SEO- This plugin is very useful in improving what Google and others see when they examine my web-pages. The one dependency I have observed in using this plugin is to load the same keywords I use/ generate in Simple Tags in the Home Keywords area of this plugin. This seems to provide a higher hit rate on my pages when the search engines come by. It additionally appears to have a positive impact on making relevant pages available to search engines.
- SEO Smart Links- I use this plugin for much the same reason as YARPP. The big plus is that this plugin places hot links within the body of Posts/Pages to facilitate cross-navigation around the site.
- Simple Tags- is possibly the key to everything. If you are like me and often forget to tag things this plugin makes it easy to augment and re-tag your entire site at will. If you keep the tag list in this plugin as your master, it also makes it easy to cross-link and cross-reference all your SEO data across the site.
- Be certain to look at the admin function for this tool because you can invoke the following key functions:
- Related Posts- cross-linking of posts where content is similar (similar to YARPP)
- Related Pages- cross-linking of pages where content is similar (similar to YARPP)
- Relevant Tags- listing of the tags used on the Page/ Post
Tags: admin, BLOG, follow, plugin, site, WordPress
In order to better understand the relative merits of moving from NoFollow to DoFollow, I have begun a test on this site.
Basically I am using two new (for me) plugins.
The basic notion is that Lucia’s LinkLove allows for an automatic reset of the default NoFollow for comments to DoFollow, after pre-determined number (determined by me) of approved comments have been added by a given user to this site. The NoFollow Reciprocity module sets and/all comments to NoFollow if the receiveing site has their site set to NoFollow.
Hopefully this test will demonstrate an uptick in this site’s ratings and traffic without a significant additional burden in SPAM. I’ll post the results of my test, as they become obvious. If you have ideas of other plugins that I should add to this mix, please let me know.
Tags: BLOG, follow, moving, plugin, site, WordPress
Because there are times when reliable, affordable (read Free) web conferencing would make everyone’s lives easier, I thought you might appreciate this new and highly regarded Open Source offering- it is called DimDim. DimDim may be found at: http://dimdim.com.
I am registered as: rabideau on the DimDim site.
We will be exploring utilizing this technology for transitioning ideas etc. to our client base.
update: 20 April 2009
The DimDim site/ software does not treat all operating systems equally. I am hugely disappointed that Linux desktops are not able to share their content with MAC/ PC whereas the reverse is possible.
Tags: rabideau, site
For those of you who have been kind enough to spend time on our site, we thank you AND we are pleased to say that we have made a significant breakthrough in our site’s performance.
The long and short of the issue is Plugins. Plugins can act as a significant drag on your site’s performance. We have noticed load times on this site approaching 11+ seconds (wayyyy to slow!). Now the load times are running at about 4.5 seconds (we think that’s much better!). In order to solve this load dilemma we have been using a set of free tools from 
Pingdom.
Areas of problems we noticed in our debug process included:
- misplaced and missing image directories in the tarski theme (we now have three directories of our little gif images… because of the errant calls within the theme internal calls)
- broken image links (yes we were part of the problem too…)
- numerous poor (read slooowwwwww) plugins; these are all removed
Additionally we have learned to remove any unused (not active) plugin. Inactive plugins can still act as a performance hit. And lastly, I scrubbed our DB. Numerous plugins had left a trail of unused tables and rows in our DB– the worst culprits were a forum plugin and an audit trail plugin.
Again, thank you to everyone for sticking with us. We appreciate your patience and hope you will find our little lessons-learned useful.
Tags: admin, plugin, site, Tarski, tools, WordPress, wordpresshelp
WordPressHelp (WPH) is very pleased to announce that we have implemented the newest release of TreeMagic-Banyan thereby aggregating the web’s most important WordPress information all in one location!!!
In our continuing efforts to make WordPress easier to use, WPH now affords WP developers & users the opportunity to double-click on any text word on this site and gain “instant” access to related WP resource information from:
- WordPress
- Lorelle
- Automattic
- WordPress Themes
- WordPressHelp
- AmbientWebs and
- TreeMagic
Users may access the information from these sites either individually (via the drop-down menu which appears when you double-click on a term) or in a collective, intelligently, pre-processed and correlated fashion (via the WP Banyan Portal). This Web 3 functionality allows users access information ‘on-the spot’ and then return to the source for continued reading and information gathering.
If you have additional sites you wish for us to incorporate in our WP Banyan Portal and TM-Banyan Search function, please use our Contact page to let us know.
Tags: ambientwebs, banyan, site, Themes, treemagic, Web 3, WordPress, wordpresshelp
AmbientWebs is pleased to inform everyone that the following sites are now enabled with TreeMagic-Cypress or TreeMagic-Banyan:
- TreeMagic-Cypress sites:
- TreeMagic-Banyan sites:
Please let us know other sites that are using the plugin… oh and we are also interested in what you might want to see this plugin do next….
Tags: ambientwebs, banyan, Cypress, follow, plugin, site, treemagic, WordPress, wordpresshelp
Earlier I made some modifications to a WP-plugin for Drop-Down Menus. I have placed the cleaned up code on this site for any/all to use. You should find it in the Downloads are.
The original plugin is: Copyright 2007 – Zoute snor
css cleaned up and validated by Mark Rabideau — 26 Nov 2007
All rights reserved by Zoute snor. You are free to use this software and redistribute it for free but may not include it in any commercial distribution without prior written permission.
Tags: css, downloads, plugin, rabideau, site
TreeMagic Cypress is a new lightweight browser plugin for WordPress. Install, configure, then double click any word, or select a group of words on the page. On mouse-up a small popup appears adjacent to the selected text that gives you instant access to define, expand and explore related resources. It does not replace or interfere with existing hyperlinks, but adds an instant and powerful reference compliment to all your texts, regardless of formatting and styles.
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Tags: admin, css, Cypress, downloads, follow, java, perl, plugin, rabideau, setup, site, tools, treemagic, wiki, WordPress, wordpresshelp
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