Hiding download pages and other pages from search engines

As you develop your website you will no doubt have various pages that are “backend” pages.   These pages might include download pages, thank you pages, policy pages, or whatever.   For web marketing we optimize our sites for search engines and we do not want these types of pages to show up in search engines.…

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Using categories on WordPress pages

One of the differences between WordPress Pages and Posts is that Posts can have a category assigned to them, whereas pages cannot.  Frankly, I think that is just dumb… why shouldn’t pages have the ability to have categories assigned.  Well, I’m not the only one that think pages should have categories and there are several…

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Favorite WordPress Plugins

Here’s a list of my favorite WordPress Plugins that I use in my Web Marketing Business. Plugin Comment Quick Page/Post Redirect Great little plugin that makes it very simple to manage redirections… much simpler than going the DNS and making the changes there. Category Checklist Tree Fixes the annoying behavior of WordPress breaking the category…

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Windows Live Writer Fails to Download and Update Theme

I was having problems with Windows Live Writer being able to update the theme.  I tried almost everything I could think of: changing to/from static pages, performing a quick post then immediate update, deleting the account and setting it up again, etc.   Nothing I tried seemed to work. As I ware browsing the internet for…

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