Tag Archives: wordpress

How To Create a Better Tweet Button (+WP Shortcode)

By Andy Beard | Published: August 15, 2010

Having criticized the new retweet or “tweet” button that Twitter have introduced, lets see if we can make it better.

This mainly covers WordPress – if you are on another platform, find a geek that uses it to try to do the equivalent, but I doubt this is possible on Blogger.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, wordpress | Also tagged retweet button, twitter, twitter button, twitter plugin, wordpress plugin, wordpress shortcode | 4 Comments

I Create, Distribute & Disseminate Cracked Software (updated 28/7/10)

By Andy Beard | Published: July 18, 2010

Update 28/7/2010 – Theme Footer Links

The sales page for Thesis no longer mentions footer links though the license agreement isn’t available in public.

The sales page for Headway still requires attribution, subject to the license agreement – but the Headway Theme license agreement is available for public viewing.

Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing, wordpress | Also tagged digital products, gpl, legal, Thesis, thesiswp | 33 Comments

Thesis Pissing In the WordPress Well?

By Andy Beard | Published: July 15, 2010

I am going to prepend this by saying up front that I typically disagree with Matt Mullenweg on many decisions

The WordPress Trademark issue still isn’t clear almost 4 years on, it isn’t policed, the logo for WordPress doesn’t contain the expected ® symbol, there should probably be a statement on all sites that use it, even the ones owned by Automattic, and it should be 100% clear that it is owned by the WordPress Foundation.

Posted in SEO Blog, themes, wordpress | Also tagged Thesis | 27 Comments

Blog Success & Affiliate Tracking (pt2)

By Andy Beard | Published: December 9, 2009

I love teasing Jack Humphrey as in many ways it is like the student testing his new prowess on the master that taught him. I learnt a lot from Jack in my early days and whilst when I first started online I couldn’t afford to join his then “Authority Site Center” that still didn’t prevent me emulating many of the systems that they had in place.

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips | Also tagged Blog Success, blogging tips, Jack Humphreys | Comments closed

Real WordPress PPC Landing Pages

By Andy Beard | Published: December 8, 2009

I am still working on some stuff with dynamic tracking links, but if you are using WordPress for PPC you might also need to think about dynamic content.

I know there are a number of WordPress Themes and plugins that claim they are intended for use with PPC, but they are not going to solve dynamic keyword insertion, and that could have a massive effect on conversion rates & quality score.

Posted in Google, blogging tips, marketing | Also tagged Allan Gardyne, dynamic keyword insertion, google website optimizer, gwo, Jay Stockwell, landing pages, Pay Per Click, PPC Loophole, PPCLoophole, speed ppc, speedppc, WordPress PPC | Comments closed

WordPress Hacked? Total Security Lockdown

By Andy Beard | Published: December 8, 2009

It is no huge secret that I have had this WordPress blog hacked twice this year but some consolation is that I am not alone.

Helpful resources

Alex recently launched a DVD course on WordPress security that is available for FREE + shipping
Stop – I know what you are thinking – FREE + Shipping these days normally comes with lots of strings attached, forced continuity often hidden etc. Whilst Alex does cross-sell a few related products, the main offer is genuinely free.

Posted in Google, blogging tips, wordpress | Also tagged 301 redirect, htaccess, http user agent, WordPress Hacked, WordPress Security | Comments closed

What Is Quansite?

By Andy Beard | Published: October 14, 2009

This is in many ways one of the most painful blog posts I could write, because it is about a service that is the closest anyone has come in 4 years to the "software as a service platform" I would like to create. The business model is totally different but the front end seems to have many of the features and attention to detail that I would require, and to be honest much of what I want to achieve on the backend & network effect isn't necessary for many business users. If what I want to create is a lion, Quansite is a tiger - different animals, different prey - both killers and could probably co-exist. Quansite is a WordPress based blogging platform for business, but calling it that is really doing it a bit of a disservice. It is the kind of system that will take a huge bite out of the business of high-priced website development shops targeting small business, because so much is done for you.

Quansite Marketing Pro

There are a couple of WordPress themes I know of which can claim drag and drop, but they are not designed for creating sales pages & one-time offers, or "touch of a button" squeeze page creation.

Posted in Video SEO & Marketing, marketing, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged Quansite | Comments closed

Feedburner Feedsmith WP2.8.4 & Caching

By Andy Beard | Published: September 18, 2009

Just a quick note for anyone who has been missing updates for the last couple of weeks. I am not sure exactly what changed within WordPress 2.8.4 to cause this but for a large segment of my readers there might not have been any visible updates on RSS feeds since around 6th September.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged feedburner, redirects, WordPress Supercache | Comments closed

How Google & StopBadware.org Handle Hacked WordPress

By Andy Beard | Published: September 17, 2009

This post hopefully can act as a bit of a counter-balance to all the stories of dread you will find if searching of how hard it is to fix a site after it has been hacked, and what it takes to get Google to reconsider your site after it has been happened.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, wordpress | Also tagged Google Webmaster, reinclusion request, Search Quality, Stopbadware, Website Hacked, WordPress Hacked | Comments closed

The Power Of Blogging Reciprocity

By Andy Beard | Published: September 9, 2009

The relationships you can build in blogging are often more valuable than you can allocate a monetary value. I have just been joking a little with Jack Humphrey on twitter about outranking him for his own product.. yet again, and toying with the idea of making it a double listing. The first thing Jack did when he read my post was promote it to his Twitter followers.

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged Blogging Reciprocity, blogging tips, WordPress Installer | Comments closed