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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Strategy for migrating from Live Mesh: Part 1

Many of you are aware that Microsoft has announced that Windows Live Mesh will be turned off on February 13th, 2013.  While SkyDrive really has some nice features, there are several features missing from SkyDrive that are in Live Mesh: SkyDrive is not a true better replacement for Live Mesh.  In fact, you are going…

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Configuring WordPress Installation Location

As you are probably aware, WordPress can be installed either to the root folder of your domain (i.e. mydomain.com) or into a sub-folder of the domain (i.e. mydomain.com/wordpressfolder).   There are some advantages and disadvantages to each, but in general I believe installing into a sub-folder is the best choice for the majority of WordPress installations. …

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Formidable Forms

Formidable WordPress Forms Plugin Formidable is a drag and drop forms designer for WordPress blogs.  The interface is well laid out and very logical.  To create a form you can start from scratch, or select an available template as a starting point.  To add fields to a form simply drag one of the available field…

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MyRepono

Great backup plugin service for WordPress If you’ve ever been dieing to backup your WordPress blog…. WAIT!!  I guess nobody ever puts that on the top of their wants list, so let me start over. If you’ve ever felt the need to backup your WordPress blog, I’ve got a great service for you.  It’s called MyRepono and…

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Should I choose a web site or blog site?

Photo Source I had an interesting conversation with a client the other day that caused me some reflection. This conversation was about converting the client’s existing ASPX based site to a blog site.  I wanted to do this for several reasons: Jean had both the ASPX web site and also a WordPress blog hosted at…

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