WP installed via Fantastico is Blocking Your Site from Search Engines

This is a quick warning to double check your Privacy settings in Wordpress.

It seems that Wordpress 2.8 (and now the latest 2.9.2) versions are defaulting the privacy setting to “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” when installed via Fantastico in cPanel.

This means that your robots.txt file is set to block search engine spiders from crawling your site. This is obviously not ideal and it baffles me why WP have chosen to now make this the default setting! Read the rest of this article »

Wordpress Plugins for Affiliate Marketing

These are all free plugins (besides one that I recently added to the list) that I use on my Wordpress sites, including this one. Thought I would share with you as I often get asked which plugins I recommend.

Akismet – Obviously – combat spam comments.

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Removing the Wordpress Date on Affiliate Blogs

Not all affiliate blogs are updated regularly like a “blog” should be.

So leaving dates on your posts can lead your visitors to (rightly) believe that your blog is old and outdated.

If your last post was written 10 months ago, people are likely to leave the site rather than stick around and read what they believe is up to date content.

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