Daniel Dumas » Wordpress Plugins

Comment Luv + Linky Luv = Link Love (Do Follow)

Daniel — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:31:59 +0000

Weeee my blog is now a do follow blog thanks to lucias’ linky love do-follow plugin for wordpress this plugin is shared to me by Andy bailey the creator of Comment luv plugin. i set linky luv plugin to make links do follow after 5 comments so that my loyal commenters can benefit for sharing their ideas actually its been a week since i found this plugin and i have seen many blog sites using these two plugins together which made me decide to install it today hehe =D . this two plugins are a great help if you are building a backlinks to your blogsite, actually thats what im doing to promote my individual post i googled blogs which uses comment luv and linky luv so that i can get a free backlinks for my site and for individual post also. i also compiled sites that i’ve visited with comment luv and link love enabled, i will share that in my next post so keep an eye hehe if want to use this plugin too you may download it by going to lucias website

WordPress User Online and PostViews plugins

Daniel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:08:56 +0000

Yahoo. . i just installed another plugin from my blog its the WP-UserOnline and WP-PostViews Plugin thanks to lester of lesterchan.net for he is the creator of these wonderful plugins..

WP-UserOnline

It enables you to display your online visitors with detailed statistics of who they are and where they are in your site. visitors that can be monitored are registered users, guess and bots. for online demo of this plugin.. just visit my user online page :lol2: to see the detailed statistics.

you can download this plugin if you want too here: WP-Useronline

WP-PostViews

this plugin acts as a counter and count how many times a post or pages had been viewed. you can see the live demo of this plugin at the home pf my blog or even at the top of this post

you can download this plugin if you want too here: WP-PostViews

Enjoy blogging

Making wordpress blog URL search engine friendly

Daniel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:02:49 +0000

Making your wordpress blog URL search engine friendly is a must if you want to drive more traffic to your wordpress blog, why? the answer is very simple clean blog URL’s help crawlers or spiders to crawl your site easily thus helping your page to get indexed easily. after some intensive research i found these pointers in choosing the best url for wordpress blogs.

Pointers for choosing WordPress blog URL from Worst to BEST!

http://yourblog.com/?p=123
http://yourblog.com/index.php?id=123
http://yourblog.com/2008/10/20/sample-post/
http://yourblog.com/post/article/sample-post
http://yourblog.com/post/article/123
http://yourblog.com/post/article/sample-post.html
http://yourblog.com/sample-post

If you been to my blog before you’ll notice that i changed my blog URLs 4 times from

Default settings - http://danieldumas.com/?p=123 to
Month and Name - http://danieldumas.com/2008/10/20/sample-post/ to

Custom - http://danieldumas/article/sample-post.html and now finally to

Custom - http://danieldumas/sample-post

Making your wordpress blog URL search engine frienldly is very easy using permalinks features, here is a step by step procedure..

Step 1:

Log-in to your wordpress blog and go to customize permalink options. Dashboard > Options > Permalinks

Step 2:

Select Custom Structure from the options, then type /%postname%

Step 3:

you dont want to lose traffic when you change your permalinks structure do you? download Permalink Migration Plugin what this plugin do is it applies a 301 redirect or permanent redirect to your old url so that whenever someone access your site with your old url, that someone will be redirected to the new url, it is also a great way to tell search engines that you have change your URL structure so that when they crawl your site again search engines will update your links in their index.

and that’s it! your wordpress blog url is now search engine friendly and optimized!