If you’re anything like me, you frequently find a few stories in your feed reader that have been sitting there for a while, and you’re not sure what to do about them.
They don’t require your immediate attention, but you also don’t want to simply bookmark them and mark them as read, because you’ll probably forget all about them.
At the moment I have four posts like that in my feed that are relevant to this site.
Here they are in no particular order…enjoy!
1. Google employee and all around great guy Matt Cutts gives us three fantastic tips to protect your Wordpress installation, none of which I was currently doing. Fixed now. Thanks Matt!
2. If you’re doing any marketing with Google AdWords, there are some great tips to improve your quality score at a recent guest post on John Chow’s blog by Jonathan Volk. Jonathan, if you’re reading this, you might want to make the RSS links on your blog point to your FeedBurner URL. If someone clicks on the RSS icon in your address bar or the big RSS image under “RSS Subscribe” they’re not being included in your FeedBurner count. I’d be willing to bet you have a lot more than 122 subscribers (as of today).
3. Ever see the WordPress database error page (below)?
It’s displayed when you have an error with your database or if your server is down. If you have seen it before, it’s probably when a WordPress site succumbed to the Digg effect.
Not only is it ugly, but it can inadvertently expose some of your file structure. Earn Blogger shows us how to easily create a custom database error page, which is a new feature of WordPress 2.3.2.
4. I like premium WordPress themes, and have purchased a few of them myself. Blog Perfume just made me aware that WPDesigner has just launched a Premium Themes Club. It’s only $5 per year for unlimited access and downloads. The first theme is available now, and he’ll be adding one new theme per month. There will be no copyright labels and no links at the bottom of the themes.
either by Full Feed RSS or by email. Thanks!
Tags: adwords, errors, john chow, jonathan volk, matt cutts, themes, wordpress
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January 29th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Thanks for sharing this info. Walt. I am glad you linked to the other sites — I found them informative and helpful.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Nice Tip about my blog. Check it out, let me know if that’s what you meant.
Thanks again! I really appreciate it.
~Jonathan Volk
January 31st, 2008 at 2:27 am
You’re just missing one of them (the one that appears as an RSS icon in the address bar of your browser).
You’ll find it in your header where it says “link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title= etc etc etc”
Where it says “href=” you probably see a small snippet of php…change that to your FeedBurner URL and you’ll be all set!
January 31st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I read the same article on John Chow too, I thought it was pretty good
Mentioned it today http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2008/01/31/optimize-your-google-adwords-ppc-campaigns/
February 1st, 2008 at 3:03 am
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