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Increase blog traffics using SEO Friendly Images plugin

Sep 14, 2009 in Blog Plugin, BlogResource

In order to increase traffics to your blog, you need to optimize the keywords in content and also in images.

Many people use keywords to search for information. As such it is important to optimize the blog with correct keywords in order to ensure your blog is displayed prominently in the search results page.

But there are other people that search for images or pictures. Therefore it is encouraged to have picture or images in your blog posting. Do you know pictures attract readers more than words?

In order to optimize the images or pictures into SEO friendly, you need to ensure the ALT & TITLE attributes are correctly done.

As I am not a programmer by profession, I have difficulty in checking the HTML programming lines and update the ALT & TITLE correctly.

Enter the SEO Friendly Images plugin that really makes my day. If you are seriously in increasing traffic to your blog, you really need to activate this plugin in your blog.
Once you have activated the plugin, it will automatically update all the images in your blog with ALT & TITLE. You can double check it by looking at the HTML codes.
It really makes your life easy. Now who says automation is bad?

SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.

TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.

You can download the plugin at seo friendly images

Installation & Configuration
Download the Plugin into your PC.
Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.

Click on Settings->SEO Friendly Images.
The following appears.

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You can change the parameters for ALT & TITLE or you can take the default settings. After that click on Update Options to save it.

It will then update all of your blogs images with ALT & TITLE attributes.

Cheers

Alwin Chuah

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Improve your blog speed by optimize your blog’s MySQL Database

Aug 26, 2009 in Blog Plugin, BlogResource

There are many ways to optimize your blog in order to speed it up.

One of the way is to optimize the MySQL database of your blog..

The reason you need to optimize the database is that over a period of time and usage, the database will be fragmented.

I have read in a couple blogs on how to optimize the blog. When I saw the commands, programming codes and lengthy steps required to optimize the database, I froze. I told myself I am not going to use those methods. I knew that all it takes is one wrong move and my blog’s database will be corrupted.

I have search around and found a useful plugin that allow optimizing your blog database safely and efficiently.

It is known as Optimize DB.
You can download it here at http://yoast.com/wordpress/optimize-db/

Installation
You just need to download the zip file from the above site.
Unzip the file
Upload the file to your blog’s plugin folder.

Usage
At the Manage Plugin screen, go to the Optimize DB plugin and select Activate.

At the Optimize DB’s plugin, select Optimize.

It will read your blog’s database and display a similar list. You just need to click on Optimize Now.

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Once it finished optimizing, it will display below.

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Simple isn’t ?

I hope the above article is useful to you.

Regards
Alwin Chuah

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Speed up your WordPress blog through WP Super Cache

Aug 20, 2009 in Blog Plugin, BlogTraffic

As you add more & more articles, pictures, links to your blog or you have quite a lot of visitors to your blog, you will notice that it takes longer time to fully load all the items. Well, depending on the visitors bandwidth speed. For those that are using a slower speed bandwidth, it will take a while for your visitor to start reading the blog. Blog readers are an impatient lot. They will not wait if it takes longer than usual to fully load.

Therefore if you want to maintain goodwill with your visitors, you need to improve the access time, your visitor can start to view your blog.

That’s where WP Super Cache comes in.

This is how it works:-

In laymen term

- This plugin makes your site download much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.

In technical term

-WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

When WP Super Cache is installed, html files are generated and they are served without ever invoking a single line of PHP. How fast can your site serve graphic files? That’s (almost) as fast it will be able to serve these cached files. If your site is struggling to cope with the daily number of visitors, then this plugin is for you.

You can get it at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

You just need to download the files, unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
Then you activate the plugin.

Go to Settings -> WP Super Cache

Tick on the “On WP cache and Super Cache enabled” & other items that are helpful for your blog. Just follow the instructions on the screen

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I find that it improve my blog download speed. It works well with Internet Explorer & Firefox.
Cheers

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Prevent your blog content from being copied

Aug 01, 2009 in Blog Plugin, BlogResource

If you do not like other people from copying content & pictures from your blog, you can copy protect it.
One of the ways I found it is easily setup & effective is to use plugin.
The plugin is known as WP-CopyProtect.

Installation
Firstly, you can download it at http://www.thechetan.com/wp-copyprotect/

Then unzip & upload it to your plugin folder

Settings
Go to Settings ->WP-Copy Protect
Tick at Disable right mouse click & Disable text selection
You can also add a message ( at the box just below the check to activate)
Then just save it.

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However the disadvantage is that your reader might not be able to perform a right click on the links to open at new tab( For firefox) or New Window ( for Internet Explorer)

In order to overcome it, you have to ensure all your links can open automatically at a new tab or new window when the reader performs a left click at the link.

You can read it from the below article

link that open in new tab or window

I hope this article can improve on your blogging knowledge.

Cheers

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Protect your blog using WP – Security Scan plugin

Jul 19, 2009 in Blog Plugin, Blog Security

When we talk of blogging, people will be focusing on content & traffic. Hardly anyone talk about security. I feel equally important is security.

Just imagine, you woke up one morning, login to your blog and suddenly found yourself cannot access to it. Or suddenly you found someone has mess up your blog. These 2 incidents will be the worst nightmare for a blogger.

Therefore between content, traffic & security, I feel security is the most important.

There is a security plugin known as Wp-Security Scan that will help to scan your blog and provide some recommendation.

You can download the plugin at:-

Once you have upload to your blog’s plugin folder, you can go to the dashboard.

At the bottom of the dashboard you will see a lock symbol. Click on the lock symbol

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You will see a few selections like Security, Scanner, Password tool, Database & Support

If you select Security, it will scan you blog and check the following:-

System Information

• Operating System

• Server

• Memory Usage

• My SQL Version

• Items related to PHP

Wordpress Version- It will hide your wordpress version

Database

Wordpress ID- It will provide recommendation

If you select Scan, it will scan your blog and display the following

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It will display your File/Directory location, Need Chmod & Current Chmod

To change the Chmod setting, you need to launch your FTP Software.

Browse to the Permissions column, it will display the value of the existing Chmod.

Highlight the relevant item, right click and select File permissions. At Numeric value, key the number as recommended by Wp-security Scan.

If you follow the recommendations provided in Security and Scan , it will definitely tightened your blog’s security

Now you can sleep well. Cheers. :-D

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Check for Broken Link in your blog the Easy way

Jul 06, 2009 in Blog Plugin

I am sure once you have posted your articles to your blog and tested the link is OK, you will no longer check on the link again, right? Do you know, after some time, some of these links will be broken, especially linking to external sources?. The reason is that the external sources might remove the link.

So how can we continuos check the linking in our numerous posts?
Have no fear, solution is here.
The easy way is to use the Broken Link checker plugin.

This is a “Must Have” plugin for all bloggers.

The installation is quite standard for plugins. You just download from the website, unzip the files, upload the folders to your blog’s plugin folder and activate.

You can get the plugin at
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/

Once the installation is successful, at the Dash board , you will see the below screen,
If you have broken links, just click on the “Found xx broken links”

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It will bring you to this screen, just mouse over the URL to bring up the Edit.
You can edit it here

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I hope this article is useful to you. Cheers.
Alwin Chuah

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Make your blog Stand Out through Favicon

Jun 27, 2009 in Blog Plugin, BlogResource

When you use Firefox browser to access to a website, you might occasionally come across a small picture next to the website’s name. The little picture is known as favicon.

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The purpose of the favicon is to get attention for your blog or website. The favicon can be any picture.

In Firefox browser, the favicon can appear at the URL and also at the tab.

Also if you bookmark a website in Firefox browser, the favicon is also displayed there. The purpose is to catch the eye of the reader so that they might access your blog more frequently

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Setup favicon
To setup a favicon is easy especially if you are using a wordpress blog. They have plugins for practically everything. Well, not everything, I still need to make my own coffee. OK, coming back to favicon.

You can use a plugin to install the favicon. You can get the plugin here.
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mfi

Once you have uploaded it to your blog. You need to go to Settings-> MBP favicon

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You can just choose one of the favicon above and click Save. Voila! You just have a favicon tied to your web link.

Simple isn’t it.

Cheers. Keep coming to my blog, yeah!

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Free All in One SEO Plugin

Jun 23, 2009 in Blog Plugin

You can improve your blog’s ranking in Search Engine by using Search Engine Optimisation(SEO) plugin for Wordpress blog.

My favourite SEO Plugin is the All In One SEO Pack .

You can get it here.

All in One SEO plugin

Configuring Home Page Options

All In One helps the optimization of your blog in two ways:-

1)By allowing you to configure the individual meta tags of each post that you write

2)By allowing you to configure the meta data of your blog’s home page.

The first thing you need to do once the plugin is installed is to go to Settings >> All In One SEO Pack and configure the home page options.

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Page Title

Here you simply enter the Page title, and description you’d like to appear if your home page was found in the search engine listings. You might be trying to make your blog home page rank for a very general keyword, in which case you want that keyword to be in the blog title preferably as the first word. You also want another part of your blog title to be an interesting clickable statement about your content.

Blog Description

Your blog description should simply explain in 20-40 words what your site is about again including your main keyword just once and being interesting and appealing to a reader of that niche.

After your meta tags are set, you’ll find some other important options at the bottom of the All in One SEO Options. These are:

Use Categories for META keywords:

I leave this box Unticked, as I like to insert my own keywords for each post and don’t necessarily want the category name to be one of them.

Use noindex for Categories:

This is vital for your site’s SEO. Ticking this box adds some code to your category index page so that it doesn’t get indexed by the search engines. Why is that good? Because your category pages contain snippets of your posts that already exist at other places in your site. Using Noindex on these pages means that only one version of your post content will be indexed and you can avoid duplicate content penalties.

Use noindex for Archives:

This is the same as above but for your archive pages. I keep this ticked too.

Use noindex for Tag Archives:

And also tick this for the same reason as above

After this you can hit Update Options and have the settings for the home page of your blog all configured.

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New Post

The main benefit of All In One is that when you click to write a new post, and scroll down below the post content, you’ll see a field where you can enter the Title, Description And Keywords for each post you write.

This allows you to completely control all of the meta tags for each piece of content you make through wordpress – a feature that’s not available in WP by default.

This part must be done with each post you write and fortunately is easy to do. How you should fill in each field looks like:

Title:

This is easiest. All you need to do here is copy the blog title you should have already written for the post above, and paste it into the Title field. Easy.

Description:

Your meta description for the post only needs to be 20-40 words containing the main keyword you’re trying to target. As it will be the description that appears when this post gets found in the search engines, it should also be interesting and appealing to anyone who finds it in the Search Engine so they’ll click on it.

Keywords

Keywords that are related to your posting

Cheers. Hope this posting helps you.

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Get more returning visitors to your blog through WOWZIO

Jun 06, 2009 in Blog Plugin, BlogTraffic

You can get more visitors wanting to come back to your blog through the implementation of Wowzio widgets .

Wowzio is a website that provides widgets which you can download like a wordpress plugin and install it in your blog.

They have a few types of widgets namely Gallery, Panoramic Slideshow, Live Activity, Tag Cloud & Feed Content Widgets.

At the wowzio website, you can select which widgets you want and it will generate the codes. You just need to paste it at your blog.

Following are the screen shots of the various Widgets.

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Wowzio Gallery

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Wowzio Panoramic Slide Show

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Wowzio Live Activity

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Wowzio Tag Cloud

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Wowzio Feed Content

Benefits
•   Wowzio will read your blog at a regular half an hour interval to obtain fresh blogging articles & pictures to update it on your widgets.
•   These widgets will not slow down your blog performance
•   Grow your readership of your blog through Wowzio.
•   You can install all or selective widgets.

Among the widgets I like the best is Live Activity. I will visit my blog regularly to look which country my readers are coming from & what articles are they reading.

I notice that when my blog readers look at the Live activity widget and saw it record where they come from & what are they reading, they are very impress.

I am very happy if I see there are visitors from other countries that have not visited my blog before.

You can download the widgets for Free by visiting
http://www.wowzio.com

Cheers.

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