How To Setup A New WordPress Blog
WordPress has long been a favorite platform for bloggers. With all the different themes, as well as the option of creating or modifying your own custom theme, and the many plugins that are available, WordPress becomes an excellent content management system (CMS). The possibilities are nearly unlimited as to what you can do with your blog using WordPress.
Most blogs have a similar layout and the option of a visitor posting a comment. However, there are also those who use WordPress as a CMS, but do not have comments included within the theme. Take this site for example, HonestInformation.com is running on WordPress.
Here I will take you step by step through the process of creating your own blog with WordPress. Read more of this Article
How Important Is Page Rank For Your Website?
Page Rank, or PR, is a value assigned to a particular web page by Google on a scale of 0 to 10. Most readers will be well aware of Google’s rating system. The intent of this article is not to talk about the intricacies of Google Page Rank and it’s mysterious algorithm but instead to ask you what is more important, traffic or PR value?
The value and desirability of Page Rank has long been a big topic of discussion among webmasters. Google keeps secret as much as possible its methods of rating a webpage and is almost constantly changing and trying to improve them. However, there are a lot of factors that are at least partially understood. One factor behind PR is known to be backlinks. There is a lot of disagreement about the specifics, but most webmasters agree that backlinks are an important part of PR.
It is often said that Google wants to keep their PR rating and SERP (Search Engine Results Position) methods secret because they want to avoid cheating and manipulation. It is much more likely that their original motive was to protect their methods from competing search engines and only later was the issue of manipulation considered. Read more of this Article
The Golden Age Of Web Directories
Not so long ago it seemed like nearly everyone who wanted to build websites were creating directories. I know when I started out online with all this stuff I put up at least three of them. If you frequented webmaster forums at that time one of the busiest sections was for announcing new directories. Many were even running multiple directories.
Lots of webmasters, including myself, were scrambling around paying $1 to $5 for regular listings and even more for featured listings. Most everyone was playing the PR game and the main concern was usually the PR of the directory and the listing page. Whenever you saw an ad for a directory in a forum it would usually go something like “PR5 Directory…”
Webmasters who achieved high PR values for their directories had no problem getting new listings even when they raised their rates. Wise directory owners used most of their listing revenues to promote their directory. The more high PR backlinks a webmaster obtained for their directory the higher their own PR raised and the more they could charge for listings. Read more of this Article
