The Blogging Fool » Wordpress http://www.bloggingfool.com Blogging tips for beginners on increasing traffic and monetizing a blog... Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SEO Title Tag Review – Use It Now!! http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/03/seo-title-tag-review-use-it-now.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/03/seo-title-tag-review-use-it-now.html#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:32:18 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/?p=123 For bloggers out there on Wordpress and interested in building your organic (SEO) traffic then you need to give the SEO Title Tag plugin a look.

The plugin has been around for years and is still the best that I know of for helping you rank better in the search engines. SEO Title Tag lets you tweak the page title tag, which is what shows up in the very top blue bar of your browser and what search engines use as the title in their search results. Having the right keywords in the page title can be huge for ranking better.

]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/03/seo-title-tag-review-use-it-now.html/feed 0 OIOpublisher Review http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/02/oiopublisher-review.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/02/oiopublisher-review.html#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:54 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/?p=109 For those interested in have a few more options beyond AdSense for monetizing a blog then its worth considering adding banner ads to your site. They can be a really nice additional revenue stream, but also a bit of a pain to manage on your own.

This is where OIOpublisher can come in handy. OIO is a Wordpress plugin that gives you a complete banner management system, which takes care of all the billing and timing for you. This makes adding banner ads to your site super easy, plus you can even add your site to their directory which makes it easier for people to find your site and advertise on it.

For me the banner management alone was enough to make OIOpublisher worth it, but it also opens up a number of other possible revenue channels. With the plugin you can also sell sponsored posts, text ads, inline ads or even customize other options (for example it could handle an ebook sale if you had one ready to sell). Again all of the billing and management is all handled by the tool so its a huge time saver. Unlike a lot of other crap tools out there, with OIO you keep all of the revenues that you generate, OIO doesn’t take any cut.

Even better yet you only need to purchase it once (for just $47) and you can use it on as many sites as you want.

I think you’ll find it quite useful and wouldn’t recommend it otherwise, so feel free to give OIOpublisher a try…

UPDATE: If you give OIO a try, use code BLOOM-FOOL when you buy and you’ll get $10 off the purchase.
]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2010/02/oiopublisher-review.html/feed 0 Importing from Wordpress to Blogger, Error 1/XXX Only http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/05/importing-from-wordpress-to-blogger-error-1xxx-only.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/05/importing-from-wordpress-to-blogger-error-1xxx-only.html#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 13:36:07 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/?p=73 We just moved over from Blogger to Wordpress and in the process had a chance to give Wordpress’ new(ish) built-in Blogger Import a try and well it doesn’t work all that well out of the box, at least on Wordpress 2.7.1 it doesn’t.

A few changes needed to be made for it to work, hopefully these save someone some hassle:

  1. If you’re using a custom domain in Blogger, then you need to turn that off first. To do so login to Blogger, click on Settings and then Publishing and then “Switch to: blogspot.com (Blogger’s free hosting service)”.
  2. Next a small piece of code is incorrect in the tool and needs to be fixed (serious pain in the butt that Wordpress developers didn’t test this, but oh well). To fix the problem FTP to your server and in your wordpress install go to /wp-admin/import/ in there you’ll find a file named blogger.php. Open that up and then find the line that reads:
    $parser = xml_parser_create_ns();
    and change it to $parser = xml_parser_create();
    Save it.
  3. Now go back into Wordpress and try the Blogger Import again. For me that fixed everything and here we are today.

Hopefully this helped for you as well…

]]> http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/05/importing-from-wordpress-to-blogger-error-1xxx-only.html/feed 0 Roundup of All of the Free Wordpress Theme Roundups http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/04/roundup-of-all-of-the-free-wordpress-theme-roundups.html http://www.bloggingfool.com/2009/04/roundup-of-all-of-the-free-wordpress-theme-roundups.html#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:47:00 +0000 admin http://www.bloggingfool.com/wp/?p=33 Finding a good, free Wordpress template for your blog can be tricky. To make things a bit easier we’ve pulled together all of those Wordpress themes roundups that we could find into one list:

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
83 Beautiful WordPress Themes
21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Wordpress Themes
21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Themes
45 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes
50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes
10 Fresh and Clean Themes
13 Wordpress Magazine Themes
20 Free Corporate WordPress Themes
45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts
Ten Best Free Wordpress Themes and Templates Part 1
Ten Best Free Wordpress Themes and Templates Part 2
Ten Best Free Wordpress Themes and Templates Part 3
39 Amazing Wordpress Themes
16 Free Premium Wordpress Themes That Don’t Suck
45+ Must See WordPress Themes – Noupe
Top 50 free Wordpress themes – CrazyLeaf
15 High Quality Free Premium WordPress 2.7 Themes – Noupe

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