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Download My WordPress SEO Settings

Scott — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:36:36 +0000

One of the things I like most about the WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast is that once you have the settings tweaked the way you want them, you can export, then import them elsewhere. At Pubcon last month, I gave my presentation on exactly how I like to use that plugin, and why I make [...]

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WordPress Plugins That Don’t Exist – Yet

Scott — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:02:42 +0000

*Last updated April 2012* – This post has been several years in the making, because since 2007, as fast as I’ve written things down in the notes, new WordPress plugins keep getting built and I’d have to scratch them out. Sometimes we build plugins we need ourselves, as was the case with my desire to [...]

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Prevent WordPress Database Disaster

Scott — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:13:11 +0000

If you use WordPress to manage a website, thanks to their auto-save feature, and the fact that it stores every revision you ever make, the database can grow quite large. In turn, I can tell you from experience, that someday, when you least expect it and can least afford it, your large database filled with [...]

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WordPress Widgets Broken for Single User

Scott — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:14:03 +0000

There is something wrong the widget behavior when I log into a few sites, but ONLY with my own login credentials, and the drag and drop features don’t seem to work. Not only is drag and drop disabled, but there is a completely different interface for each and every widget, forcing me to manually choose [...]

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Pubcon 2010 – Presentations, Lunch & Poker

Scott — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:19:11 +0000

I’m really looking forward to giving this year’s Pubcon presentations, not only because I’m heading to Las Vegas, November 8-12 for the longest running internet marketing conference, but because in both sessions, I get to speak about things that I have a strong passion for. This year I’ll be speaking in two sessions, the first [...]

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WordCamp Portland | Sponsorship and Free Ticket

Scott — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:44:22 +0000

I’m proud to announce that we are one of the sponsors for Portland WordCamp 2010 that is taking place this weekend, although I’m very disappointed that I can’t go. When I was first approached about sponsorship, I wasn’t really sure that it would be a huge value for me, but the more I thought about [...]

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More WordPress 404 Errors

Scott — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:26:02 +0000

I accidentally came upon another way that WordPress isn’t working quite right, so I made a quick 2 minute video. Over at SEO Automatic, I had created a page long ago to use for a new feature, my Automatic SEO Tip of the Week but I never made it live because I didn’t yet have [...]

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WordPress Forces 302 Redirect

Scott — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:14:11 +0000

I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302′s. Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless. In this short video I’ll show you exactly what not [...]

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WordPress 2.82 May Hurt Rankings

Scott — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:55:31 +0000

I’ll bet you $1000 that if we took an existing and well established default site installation today, and first upgraded it to WP 2.82, then we set WP up correctly with our chosen SEO plug-ins, correct permalinks, etc. that we would LOSE rankings in the search engines within 90 days. Why? Because all of the [...]

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WordPress 2.82 – Changing URL is Bad

Scott — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:15:19 +0000

In WordPress, the traditional behavior of the past few months has been that if you edit the Permalink of a page or post, the old URL will generate a 301 (permanent) redirect to the new URL. This action follows SEO best practices, and in general it follows anyone’s common sense. It tells search engines that [...]

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