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Building an Adsense Site on WordPress: Keyword Research

May 4, 2010
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The following information uses a newly created Adsense site I created on Burkitt lymphoma as an example. While the information is sound, your mileage may vary. Building a website that is designed to bring in revenue from the Adsense ads you place on it can be a worthwhile project that can bring you a seemingly [...]

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Speed Up WordPress Without Using A Cache Plugin

March 24, 2010
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Today I decided to try something different with this blog. I decided to remove the WP Super Cache plugin and just try server compression instead.  And so far I am very pleased with the results. I tend to use the caching plugin on any WordPress site I set up.  I don’t always do this because [...]

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New WordPress Hack On The Loose

February 3, 2010
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I received an email from someone this morning asking me to correct a problem on their WordPress site.  This in of itself is not unusual, but what I found when I went to their site was unusual.  In fact, it was cause for alarm. The design issue was easy enough to fix, but I received [...]

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Backup Your WordPress Blog Or Pay The Price Later

January 25, 2010
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Being the resident computer expert in the family, I found myself over at my father-in-law’s house yesterday with the purpose of ridding his home PC from the icy cold grip of a few computer viruses.  What I had hoped would be a quick process turned into a lengthy and frustrating procedure that lasted until the [...]

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5 Quick Tweaks To Improve Your WordPress Blog

December 18, 2009
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WordPress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement.  Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability. Boost your page serving speed You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of [...]

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10 Ways To Speed Up Your Blog

December 8, 2009
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If you’re anything like me, then you hate it when you are on a slow-loading website or blog.  In this time where high-speed internet is freely available, you expect your web browsing to reflect that and not resemble dial-up speeds.  Unfortunately, even with broadband internet, sometimes blogs do not run at optimal speeds. If your [...]

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