Do you use wordpress plugins? Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!
If you have a WordPress blog, there is a 99% chance that you use wordpress plugins. If you develop your own sites, you already know what they are, and you probably are familiar with at least a handful. If someone does your web development for you, you still enjoy the benefits of plugins that do everything from managing comment spam to generating forms pages.
Canonical issues or “What the heck is the name of this site?”
I used to think that only the Vatican had “canonical” issues. I guess that’s because I am Catholic, and never new of any other institution that would spell “canon” with only one “n.”
Getting your posts indexed.
Be sure that your posts are long enough.
Ernest Hemingway (when he still had a head) bet a guy he met in a bar that he could write a compelling story with just six words. The bar patron took him up on it. Ernest won the bet. Here is the story:
“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.”
Does size matter?
How long should a blog post be? Is bigger really better? Yes. No. Do you think I frequently give self-contradictory advice?
Yes. No. Maybe.
Photo tag shortcuts.
“The problem with your business is that everyone tells you something different.”
- Yoda (or someone like him.)
Google can’t tell what a photo is about unless you tell it what it is about. On your WordPress 2.5, there are fields like “title” (for the PHOTO, not the page) and “caption” (alt tag).
rulEs FOR ProPer caPitaliZation.
Do you know when you should use “upper-case” letters? If you don’t, it would be a “capital” idea to find out! (Bad pun intended. Well, they can’t all be funny, you know. You just can’t expect that!)
Signing up for an IDX provider? Please don’t forget to read the TOS.
The following is an open letter that I wrote to my web development clients:
To my valued AgentBlogBuzz.Com customers:
Recently,one of my website customers had an untoward experience with Diverse Solutions’ dsSearchAgent IDX.

Do you email when drunk?
Maybe you even gave away valuable secrets, like access to your MySQL database. Perhaps you wrote something embarrassing to an ex-spouse. Did you send some death threats to your least favorite politician? Maybe that email you can’t remember sending will someday be called “Exhibit A” by the District Attorney. You might even get a visit from the Secret Service.