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Merry Christmas and I want your questions
Two days until the big guy stops by bringing presents to all of the good boys and girls. I hope you are ready for it and planning to spend some quality time with your friends and family. I am. Before I get into total Christmas mode I did want to ask ...
Installing WordPress – Do’s and Don’ts
One of the big mistakes people use when installing WordPress is to use Fantastico. I love easy but there are a couple security risks using them. First – It is often not up to date. I just checked three different hosting accounts and right now a...
Finding hot topics with StumbleUpon and Digg
This past week Nicole Dean has been guest blogging on one of my other blogs and her topic for the week was How To Get Ideas For Your Next Blog Post. I will be going into more detail on occasion here. Today we will look at this tip. 19. StumbleUpon a...
Does your blog look good?
A question that is subjective to be sure but it always amazes me when I see a blog that is the standard default WordPress theme. Now this is not a knock on the standard theme as I have seen some people that have used it effectively. It is the stock h...
Blog Talk Radio Show Scheduled
Yes the next BTR WordPress Q and A Call will be next Wednesday at 7pm. As I hinted last month we will be doing something a bit different this coming month. Because of the surveys that biggest topic was creating content. Steve and I will be addressing...
Questions needed for Blog Talk Radio Show
It is a new month so that means it is time to schedule my monthly WordPress Q and A Blog Talk Radio Show. It will be Wednesday July 8th at 7pm edt. Once again I will have my good bud Steve Roye of Real First Steps along to make sure there is no techn...
Catching up on things
There has been a lot going on this week with WordPress and myself. WordPress released version 2.8, I held the monthly Blog Talk Radio WordPress Q and A and re-launched WordPress Made Easy. So some of the comments and question have not gotten answered...
WordPress and Word a conflicting situation
Todays question I have a few questions with differences in format between Internet Explorer and FireFox (logos in IE are partly covered by the sidebar, while in FireFox they are not). Also font options when I cut and paste from Word are automatically...
Monthly Q and A scheduled - your questions needed
It has been May for over a week and I had not scheduled the monthly show but have fixed that today. Next Wednesday at 7 pm will be the monthly Blog Talk Radio Show. I have scheduled it for 30 minutes but if I get enough questions before Monday I can ...
How many posts to show on your home page
Todays question: Any suggestions on the number of posts that one should show? Default is 10, but I have seen many blogs that only show 1 post. This is actually an unanswerable question because it will be different depending on how you use your blog...
Tagging and Simple Tags Information
Yesterday’s post caused a few questions about tagging and Simple Tags. The first had to do with setting the no follow. One of the items in the general settings is to make tag links use the no follow attribute. It is easy to do you just check th...
Title tags and All In One SEO plugin
Todays question: You mention “I always want to add tags to my posts, I may want a custom title tag and description ” I just recently read a post saing that SEO All In One Plugin is not as usefull as it once was. Is that your opinion as well? Whe...
Real Estate Websites - finding a theme
Here is a question from the Blog Talk Radio show that needs a bit more clarification. How would one create a WP blogsite that is real estate oriented with articles, links, listings (descriptions of property for sale with 6 pictures)? Is there a WP t...
Plugin upgrade questions
One of the reasons I love using a bog rather than a static web site is the ability to interact with your readers. Yesterday I wrote about making sure you upgrade your plugins and 2 of the comments had great questions that need to be addressed. See th...
Questions needed for the Blog Talk Radio Show
Okay I am a dunce and forgot to add the BTR show into the Week In Review on Mike Paetzold Recommends this week. That usually starts the questions coming so I need a bit of help here. Tomorrow night is the monthly Q and A Session where you can ask you...
Blog has been hijacked
Todays question: Someone has hijacked my blog and posting everyday using ’spun’ articles. the links are to adsnce sites. I have deadened the links and contacted Google, but have had no reply. What should I do, please? This question actual...
BTR replay and plugin ideas
Here is the replay from last night’s show. Hope you enjoy. Still looking for ideas on a plugin to be created for my readers by Robert Plank. Leave your comments on both the show and plugin ideas below. Mike Paetzold Social Bookmarking Techno...
What plugin would you like to see?
I talk a lot about Twitter and your blog but last night I got this message. @MikePaetzold Hey Robert Plank rules and Mike Paetzold sucks… just kidding… can I make a WordPress plugin just for your blog readers? So of course I said yes bu...
How do niche blogs work?
Todays question: How do niche blogs work? I see ads for sites that offer you 2-3 niche blogs to set up each month (or some time frame). How can anyone keep up with say 12 blogs after a years time? If one of the ways to have a successful blog is to k...
How many plugins do I need?
Todays question: Is there a practical number of plugins that should be on a blog? There are many that appear to be useful. But can you go overboard with plugins? I’ll answer the second part first and yes you can go overboard. This can make yo...
Plugin conflicts - How to resolve them
Todays question: Mike is there any rule on Word Press Plugins that conflict? I was told that using prototype, and another plugin with jQuery, that these javascript libraries don’t like to work together. I have had instances where plugins disable o...
How many blogs do I need
Today’s question: Here’s a topic that some people might want to know more about… Using the Internet marketing niche as an example, there are many topics that can be blogged about, like traffic, product development, affiliate marketing, etc...
Now I need you
Hopefully you have enjoyed the series on MyBlogLog and Twitter but it is time to get back to answering your questions. This allows me to get into the topics that will help you to get your blog going, fix problems you may be having and find out how I ...
MyBlogLog - are you using it and if not why not?
This will be the start of a series on MyBlogLog (maybe see the end of the post). Most of the people that I talk to whether on the monthly Blog Talk Radio show, in various forums and conference rooms know about it but are probably only scratching the ...
More on widgets
Today’s question: Mike, I’d be interested in having you discuss widget width. I’ve had problems with different sizes, particularly when I have used a three column theme with two side bars side by side. Any insights you could offer? Most o...
Using widgets for your sidebar
Today’s question: I added one widget and all of the previous items in my side bar disappeared. What happened? The problem is you can either use the default side bar on most themes or you can use the widget function. You can’t use both. ...
Replay of last night’s Blog Talk Radio Show
Here is the replay from last night’s Blog Talk Radio Show. Sorry for the delay but has been an interesting day when you wake up and it is -2 F and your heater is broken. Just starting to get warm now.thankfully. Have a great day and enj...
Twitter and your blog - how do YOU use them?
Normally I answer questions here and you the reader get information and comment back. Today I want to turn the tables and pick your brains for a change. I have been a tweeple (is that really a word?) for a while now and have fallen in love with Twitt...
Using Adsense on your blog
I have been adding more content here and less answering questions so back to the questions. Today’s question: Mike, Two quick questions: What is the name of the drop down menu RSS subscribe plugin that you are using on this blog? I like it. The...
Tweet My Blog and WordPress 2.7
Today’s question: I’ve only just set up my blog and installed wordpress 2.7 the help file in the tweet my blog plug in on how to install it looks like it was written for the old version. Do you know how to change the settings to add my twitte...
