Blogging on Wordpress
Since we are blogging here and we use Wordpress, it is more than normal to have this Blogging on Wordpress category, where we’ll present concepts, tips, advices that should ease you online experience with this platform.
Backup your projects on a monthly basis – just a reminder
This is just a reminder for you (and for me) that you should make a habit of backing up your blog (and all your projects actually) monthly. Also, try to keep all the backups at least 1 year old. Storage drives are so cheap right now that you can easily do that, unless you have gigantic projects. But if you do, that means you earn enough to afford multiple backup methods, right? 
Indexing tag pages or not?
I’ve been playing with the subject of indexing tag pages in Wordpress for quite a while now. I have sites were i keep these pages in the indexes and pages where i don’t . The result vary from case to case though, so stating a rule for this subject is kind of difficult.
You might ask why am I even bothering with this problem. Well, let’s see why Tag pages are not worthwhile of being indexed:
- they are just another navigation method on your site, meant to help visitors find posts on the subject they’re interested of.
- they won’t rank. Unless you’re an authority, they won’t. I believe SE have some kind of trigger to distinguish and declassify tag pages, and this is especially true foo Google.com . On regional though, clever done tag pages might rank well.
- they create duplicate content: a tag page is usually similar to the category page so you have the same content as in categories, just displayed in a somewhat different order
- they create almost empty pages, unless you have a very tight tagging system. And this will happen every time you’ll use a new tag that hasn’t been used before on your site.
- sometimes, they create useless pages
5 Free Wordpress Themes You Could Pay For
The most obvious difference between premium and free Wordpress themes has for long been the quality in addition to price. But more and more professional web designers are designing free Wordpress themes as a proven online marketing strategy. A well crafted wp theme offered for free will not only generate many backlinks, but may also increase awareness of the theme designer.
After some research I can list five designers, freelancers and agencies that have created exceptionally beautiful free Wordpress themes. Here we go:
1. WeFunction Design Agency – Magazeen theme
Magazeen is the second in a line of free Wordpress themes created by WeFunction.com. Implementing a jQuery based Latest Image Showcase on a clean and communicative web design, Magazeen is an outstanding freebie from WeFunction. Costing only two links in the footer, Magazeen is a great example of professional free Wordpress theme of today.
How to protect your content from scrapers
I noticed quite a lot of my sites have been heavily scrapped latelly by lots and lots of automated bots… That’s why i decided to investigate and find out how could i stop them.
After doing a little bit of research and reading a couple of good materials (like this one and this one), i decided i should use the following two plugins:
- Simple Feed Copyright WordPress Plugin – a very simple plugin that adds a link signature at the end of your feed. Thus, even though bots still scrap your content, you’ll get a Link in the scrapped post.
- Owen Winkler’s AntiLeech WordPress Plugin – this one is a little more advanced… It does not prevent bots from scrapping content, but it produces fake content especially for them, with links towards the original site. You can add "flagged sites" by IP and lots of other functions. Not sure exactly how it works, but i’m testing it right now.
Once you go no-follow… you’re doomed
I know lots of people talk on and on about spreading link love in the blogosphere and removing no-follow from your comments so you can appreciate your readers and reward them with a good quality link.
This sounds very nice, but… In the early days of this blog i used a do-follow plugin in order to attract more comments. After a couple of months, manual spam comments reached such a level that i came back to the all so good "nofollow". But… the damage was already done.
Starting a new blog: the beginning
A couple of years ago I’ve heard a friend telling me about blogs. I didn’t quite understand what they were, i just consider them some kind of online journal where you can write publicly whatever you want. And others find your lines, read them and then comment. And then you go reading other blogs too, make a couple of friends, write some more and become a member of the big blogosphere family. And so on.
But then i found out blogging can be a business too.
When do you know it’s time to give up?
I believe i have a problem. I am a very bad looser. Actually, i don’t to like to loose at all, at nothing. I don’t even get the idea of "playing just for fun". No, i play to be the best 
. But that’s not exactly the subject of this post, is just a preamble to the next lines…
During the last two years I’ve started a couple of online projects. Some of them worked better than the others, some didn’t work at all.