How To Prevent Visitors From Leaving Your Blog When Clicking Your Links

September 10, 2008 · Filed Under Wordpress Tips · 2 Comments 

We all know the value of placing links in your blog posts, whether it’s a link to another blog, a news site, or one of your affiliate links. But do you really want your visitors to leave your site when clicking your outgoing links?

Of course not!

Use this simple HTML markup that will make your links open in a new window - It just requires a little HTML.

In the HTML view of your “write post” page add the following to your links – target=”blank”
Here is an example.

open links in a new window

How To Stop Spammers From Posting Automatic Comments On Your Wordpress Blogs

September 10, 2008 · Filed Under Google Adwords, Search Engine Optimization, Wordpress Tips · 1 Comment 

We all hate spam, and if your blog is full of spam comments your readers will definitely think twice about the quality of your blog. They’ll probably hit the back button too – never to return again.

How do you stop those nasty spam bots and piece of crap marketers from doing this? You need to activate the Akismet Spam plugin (already included) which requires a unique API key.

To get your API key by email, register at wordpress.com.

  • Check your email
  • Login to YOUR wordpress blog
  • Activate the Akismet Spam plugin
  • Enter your new API Key

List of Ping Services - Get More Visitors To Your Blog!

August 14, 2008 · Filed Under Increase Website Traffic, Wordpress Tips · 5 Comments 

If you’re using blogs for internet marketing, Google adsense, or any other channel you should be well aware of the benefits of pinging blog directories and search engines.

Pinging notifies blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. Since traffic is what we want, the bigger the ping list, the more traffic we get.

Don’t know how to update your list? If you’re using wordpress follow my guide on updating your ping list in wordpress.

The following is a list of pinging services for wordpress and others.

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