Nine days ago I published a short cryptic post that had a few people at work scratching their heads. Why I mention this is that it was wholly composed in Microsoft Word 2007, and published direct to the Stratify web site. Since then every post I’ve written has been published the same way.
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If you’re reading this, it was published using Microsoft’s new “Blog Post” function inside Word 2007.

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Four Phases of Internet MarketingScottish Internet marketer David Bain has just released his new ebook, The Four Phases of Internet Marketing. It’s a free download (although you have to register on his website to get it), and its release coincides with David’s announcement of the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan. No details on this yet, […]

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A few weeks ago my tool bar page rank dropped to zero (from four). This happened without warning - OK on Friday, zero on Monday, and after some research I’ve just made some changes to this website and requested a review from Google. I’ll let you know how it goes.
First up, my main source of […]

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A few months ago I moved this website from a static design (HTML and Dreamweaver) to a Wordpress-driven blog. Like so many sites shooting for position in the hyper-competitive SEO space, my static site was sitting with only a few views a day, and served only as a reference point for clients and prospects who […]

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On Friday, this site had a Google toolbar pagerank (TBPR) of 4. Today, It’s zero.
Other than (almost) daily posts, there are four changes that may have caused this:

A myriad minor changes to the blog template. I fiddle with this a few times a week, so maybe something was done that caused a problem.
The addition of […]

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Ever visited a blog and on the home, or index, page, seen how the posts there show a few lines then a ‘Read More’ link? In WordPress that’s the effect of using the ‘more’ tag, and there’s two reasons why you should use it too.

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By default, Wordpress inserts the ‘nofollow’ directive to all author and comment links to make comment spamming unattractive. While this seems like a good thing, the Akismet plugin (included by default with all new Wordpress installs) seems to do a pretty good job of stopping comment spam in the first place.

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Blogger Conrad Hees published a post titled “Why You’re Nobody Until You Have a Blog” a few days ago, and I’ve only just discovered it.
It’s worth your time to read it.

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Only a quick post today, but before I get into the topic I wanted to say “Thank You” to the 500+ people who cared enough to stumble last Friday’s post. It was great to see that traffic spike!
Caroline Middlebrook has just released her new free eBook “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress“. […]

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