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Getting Started with Expand2Web

May 2009

Matt Cutts at WordCamp SF – How to do better in Google

May 30, 2009
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“WordPress takes care of 80-90% of SEO mechanics.” – Matt Cutts, Google Search Quality team Matt’s presentation at WordCamp – Straight from Google: What you need to know was full of little nuggets about WordPress SEO. He stared off with a simple and direct definition of Google PageRank: Google PageRank = the number of people [...]

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Adding categories and tags to your posts

May 29, 2009

Categories and tags help to organize the content in your blog, and make it easier for people to navigate through to find what they’re looking for.  They will help users who are already on your site navigate and, perhaps more importantly, will help users find your site via search and blogging tools that index these [...]

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The Categories widget – carving up your content into bite-sized pieces

May 29, 2009
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Categories are the key to organizing your WordPress blog.  The Categories widget displays a list of your categories in your blog sidebar, and offers a couple of options as to how they’re shown.  Using the Categories widget you can customize how you use categories to drive visitors to blog posts that might interest them. This [...]

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How To Rank In The Local Search Results

May 26, 2009

Imagine being able to sit down at the table with 27 people who spend all day figuring out how Google and Yahoo rank local search results. You can ask them any question about what will help your website rank best in the local search results. Well, David Mihm has done that for you in his [...]

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How to Get a Post Out Quickly with QuickPress

May 26, 2009
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There are times that you may want to quickly add a new post to your WordPress website without any muss or fuss. In this instance, you might want to think about giving QuickPress a try. As explained in the video, QuickPress allows you to work from your main WordPress Dashboard. Simply give your post a [...]

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Getting More Blogs on your Home Page

May 24, 2009
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The front page of a blog is like the front page of the newspaper or the first row of houses at the beach – it’s prime real estate.  One of the ways in which you can maximize the home page is to display excerpts of your blog posts.  This way, you can fit more blogs [...]

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WordPress for iPhone 1.2

May 22, 2009
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The iPhone is clearly one of the most popular mobile devices on the market today. To allow for easy mobile blogging, WordPress has developed its own app for the iPhone. The following video introduces WordPress for iPhone, version 1.2. Besides publishing posts to your WordPress website, the WordPress for iPhone app has numerous other capabilities, so [...]

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New Release of the SmallBiz WordPress Theme

May 21, 2009
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I‘m excited to announce that we’ve just published version 1.2 of the Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress Theme based on your feedback! Here are some of the new features in v1.2: Added the hCard microformat for business information (SEO benefit: Google Rich Snippets support) Ability to have sub-menus in the WordPress navigation bar Formatting and layout issues [...]

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How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress

May 20, 2009
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There may be times when you want to add several images to one of your posts. In this case, an image gallery may be the best way to display your photos with a minimal amount of muss and fuss. The following video explains how to create an image gallery in WordPress. To create the image [...]

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Rearranging the post editor to suit your style

May 18, 2009
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WordPress allows you to configure the settings of the post and page editing screens to meet your specific preferences. If there are options you never use, you can hide them.  If you want to change the order around – you can do just that.  Take a look at the video to see how easy it [...]

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