The nofollow attribute is used my most blogging platforms out there. What is does is tell search engine bots not to follow links in your comments. It’s intention is to reduce spam, but if you have good spam control in place, why not spread around some link juice? I’m all for spreading around link love. […]

There may be times when we want to make changes to our blogs, to test a new plugin or theme, and we don’t want to do this on our live site. What we can do is install a local copy of WordPress on our PC for development. This is a step by step on how […]

WordPress, in my opinion, is the best blogging software out there. It’s extremely easy to set-up, to use, and there are a ton of useful plugins out there that extend it’s functionality even more. When your just starting out, it can be confusing to know which plugins to start with.
Here are my list of essential […]

I recently came across a great SEO plugin for WordPress, the All in One SEO Pack. Basically, this plugin optimizes your WordPress blog for search engines by allowing you to:

define your home page title, description and keywords
define your post, page, category, archive, tag and search title formats
use categories for META keywords
avoid indexing of duplicate content […]