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If you aren’t creating a favorite icon for your website urls, you should! The icon is saved to the surfer’s bookmarks and it’s a fact that people do become familiar with a site’s “icon/name brand” and will often click on it over a site that they don’t remember.

A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is an icon associated with a website or webpage intended to be used when you bookmark the web page. Web browsers use them in the URL bar, on tabs, and elsewhere to help identify a website visually.

A favicon is a graphic 16 x 16 pixels square and needs to be saved as favicon.ico and uploaded into the root directory of your server. You can use a favicon with any WordPress blog where you have ftp access to the root directory.

Easity create a favicon with a graphics program that will allow the saving of .ico graphic files, such as The GIMP. There are also online services that will allow you to create a favicon for free, such as  favicon.co.uk or Dynamic Drive, or HtmlKit.  Just follow the instructions provided by the site, save your creation and then download the image file  of the favicon.ico to your computer..

The image should be clear and is usually designed to match your blog image and/or content, a big task for something so small.

To prepare the image to be saved as favicon.ico:

1. By cropping or adding space around the image, make the image square.
2. Resize the image to 16 x 16 pixels.
3. Save the file as favicon.ico.

Installing a Favicon in WordPress

If there is already an old favicon.ico file in your current theme’s main folder, delete it using FTP Clients.

1. With an FTP Client, upload the new favicon.ico file into your current theme’s main folder.
2. Upload another copy of your favicon.ico file to the main directory of your site (ie. http://example.com/favicon.ico). This will display the favicon in your subscribers’ feedreaders.

To see your new favicon, clear your browser’s cache. You may need to restart your browser in order to see the new favicon.

In an article by Othar Hansson he talks about Google experimenting with an Authorship Markup Tag:

“to support authorship markup—a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We’re experimenting with using this data to help people find content from great authors in our search results.

We now support markup that enables websites to publicly link within their site from content to author pages. For example, if an author at The New York Times has written dozens of articles, using this markup, the webmaster can connect these articles with a New York Times author page. An author page describes and identifies the author, and can include things like the author’s bio, photo, articles and other links.

We know that great content comes from great authors, and we’re looking closely at ways this markup could help us highlight authors and rank search results.”

Essentially, this translates as a move to alleviate the amount of duplicate content and spamming currently on the internet and allows people to become expert authors in their particular niche.

A video interview with Hansson has Matt Cutts asking, “Will people get higher rankings? Is there a rankings boost for rel=’author’?” Hansson then replies, “It’s obviously early days, so we hope to use this information and any information as a ranking signal at Google. In this case, we want to get information on credibility of authors from all kinds of sources, and eventually use it in ranking. We’re only experimenting with that now. Who knows where it will go?”

Given Google’s recent emphasis on ‘trustworthy content’ in their Panda update, it seems highly possible that this will become a SIGNIFICANT ranking factor in the future. Add to that the fact that you will need a Google Profile to use this new tag.

Here’s a guide on how to use this new tag:
1. On every post, add a link somewhere pointing to your Google Profile
2. On that link, add an attribute rel=”author”

The link can go anywhere in the article, in the header, footer or anywhere in the body text. You can wrap it around an image if you want to as well.

You can also watch this video about implementing the authorship tag within WordPress. It is a step by step tutorial on how to EASILY set up rel=author on your WordPress site. Please visit Devon Web Designers for the full written instructions that go with this video.

Important Upgrade to Trade Pulse

Due to an external problem the guys can’t fix there is a file in Script Pulse’s Trade Pulse script that, if you don’t have the very newest installation, you’ll need to do a manual “fix” to the code.

All users must update ASAP their scripts by doing the following:
1) Download this file
http://www.scriptpulse.com/tpupdater.zip
2) Extract and upload file to “tp” folder
3) Run updater in your script or run file directly calling url http://www.yoursite.com/tp/tpupdater.php

New installations are not affected since the new installer from new location is already out.

If there are any issues please contact info@scriptpulse.com or kildoozer@scriptpulse.com (kildoozer). If you are in need of assistance they will even do update for you just send them ftp and tp logins.

1. Once you have a week or so of good posts on your new blog submit it to blog directories and blog link lists. Also submit the blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs – Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.

2. Optimize your blog for good search engine ranking by using keyword meta tags, meta descriptions, alt tags on all imagery, font treatments of specific keywords: H1, H2, H3 or bold, underlined, or italic, etc.  Also: Install and learn to use the All in One SEO plugin. You should also install and configure a Google Sitemap plugin.

3. Initiate an ongoing link building campaign. Do free blogroll trades with other bloggers (find some similiar niche bloggers to trade with at places like www.linkspun.com) Get some A/B/C links happening with these trades as well as A/B style links. Also do some paid listings with sites that have a PR2 or higher ranking. Be sure to request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, blogs and discussion threads. If you have a resource post that will help others, point to it. Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog at sites like Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, and Yahoo News.

4. Assign tags to each post (in the area where you’re writing the new post on the right hand column you’ll see an area to put some into your post)

5. Show a tag cloud on your sidebar or in the footer (easily done with your widgets). This cloud is created from the tags you put onto your posts, so use good niche keywords and don’t forget to mention model’s by name, sites by name, or a product by name. A search for a particular model could get you in the top ten search engine results!

6. Go do comments on similiar niche blogs: it gets you a free inbound link and traffic to your blog’s url. Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments section of the post.

7. Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality and then add additional sites to the ping list in Settings -> Writing -> Update Services *Note: Be sure to delete the one ping site url that is there before copy/pasting in a new list and each url MUST be on its own line or it won’t save or work properly. Install the CBNet Ping Optimizer plugin that prevents over pinging of the services if you need to do some after posting edits to your articles.

8. Create a Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking. Install and use the Feedburner Plugin. Learn more about Using Feedburner from an article on the WordPress.org.

9. Using a link cloaking plugin like Ninja Affiliate will stop surfers and link thieves from changing or removing your affiliate code and also removes the reluctance of a lot of surfers from clicking an affiliate link.

10. Upload and configure a Social Sharing plugin for surfers to quickly spread the word about a post they like. Also use the Social Networking to your own advantage on forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.

I found a wonderful article by Kimi on her blog.web6.org website that explains in exquisite detail, along with photos, of how to add the Google Analytics code to WordPress blogs and avoid installing another plugin that could slow down your blogs’ response time. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. It can help you make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.

Easy to follow tutorial how to insert or put Google analytics code in your wordpress blog theme file.

Google analytics is one of several ways to track your blog’s visitors, like, where they come from, which search engine brings you the most traffics, or which referral websites your visitors come from, and many more.
The most useful is you will know how many visitors you receive a day or some specific period of times. I added my blog to Google Analytics right after submitting my sites to search engines, like Google,Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The result will usually show after a few days.

I have decided not to use any Google analytics plugins for this, because we can easily do it without plugin. Do remember, using too much plugins can slow down your page load, and sometimes buggy while upgrading your blog.

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Here are some tips from Luke over on GayWideWebmasters on How to use Twitter for Business

1. Get to know the twitter language.
Take the time to read other posts and to see the language that is being used on the site. Here are a couple of things you should know before starting on twitter:
tweets – the name used for twitter posts
#word – use the # sign in front of a word to “tag” a word for tracking topics or events
@name – use the @ sign in front of a name to address a tweet to a specific user or to mention that user

2. Post daily tweets.
Make sure you post at least once a day to keep your followers interested in you.

3. Don’t spam, don’t post all day long.
Spamming will get you a bad rep fast, as does posting all day long (who has time to follow so many updates!) Keep your tweets meaningful and valuable.

4. Post your own links.
Your followers are interested in what you are doing, so every once in a while, why not give them your links and let them see for themselves.

5. Engage in conversations.
Engaging in others conversations and starting your own interesting conversations will get you a lot further than simply posting one-liners with no real lead to anything else.

6. Monitor what others are saying about you.
Search for @mentions and respond to all direct messages, even if its negative messages to you.

7. Use twitter partner services.
Use services like TwitPic, TwitVid, Yfrog, etc to post pictures or videos. This can help you stand out as well as help your branding.

8. Create lists.
List can be fun, interesting or just plain crazy! Creating lists that are relative to your product will help you build your community of followers.

9. Have fun.
Don’t forget, Twitter was started to be a fun tool, so don’t be so serious and have a bit of fun too!

I was browsing the web for new ideas on building up blog traffic and came across One Cool Site Blogging Tips, and an article that timethief had written about the difficulties adult bloggers face when trying to promote their blogs. She aptly points out that conventional means available to non-adult site bloggers just aren’t feasible for the adult blogger.

timethief writes: The most effective way of promoting a blog within the WordPress.COM community is to seek out other blogs in the same niche as our own blog and post meaningful comments to posts in them.  However, those who have blogs with legal adult content have far fewer opportunities to locate blogs within the same niche, and promote their blogs within the WordPress.COM community than bloggers with blogs in other niches do.

Links, Backlinks and PageRank

Links signify relationships and commenting on blogs in the same niche leads to creating relationships with fellow bloggers that may result in backlinks. Backlinks are incoming links to a website. A backlink is created when another site or a blog links back to your site, and the value of that backlink is related to the PR ( page rank) of the site linking back to yours. A site with a lot of backlinks implies that many other sites link to that site.

If you want high search engine rankings so your blog will receive more organic (unpaid) traffic it’s important to have backlinks. Google ranks your site from 0 to 10 based in part on the PR of sites that link to yours. If you have backlinks from high PR sites in the same niche then Google will rank your site higher in search engines results, and as your site gets more backlinks Google will see your site as one of increasing importance. This will be reflected in your blog’s PageRank. The more quality backlinks your site has the higher your Google PageRank rank will be, so understanding backlinking, using all means available to locate other blogs within the same niche, and obtaining backlinks is important.

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