The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: WordPress

  • Google is Weird

    The more I research and see the results first hand, I am convinced – Google is weird. Today I checked, again, to see if my newer pages (or any pages knowing Google) are showing up. Well now, the old index.asp pages are now showing up in Google results even though…

  • Further tests to fix Techorati ping issue

    As you may have noticed in my last few posts, I have been having issue with my post showing up in Technorati correctly. This post is to try and see if a change that just made is going to work. I will post my findings of what caused this when…

  • Fixing Touble with Technorati Links

    Duh – I forgot to Include Technorati links in the last post. Here it is again so can try to get it listed in Technorati. Here are the posts – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks – Where I talk about what you need to do to get permalinks working on Godaddy.…

  • Trouble with Technorati Links

    I am putting this post up just to reference my last few post because they have not been listing correctly on Technorati. Here are the posts – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks – Where I talk about what you need to do to get permalinks working on Godaddy. How to setup…

  • How to setup WordPress MySQL and Permalinks info on Godaddy Hosting

    I am posting a followup to yesterday’s post – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks in which I spoke of what you need to enable permalinks on Godaddy hosting. From that post I got an email asking about how to setup the wp-config.php file with the correct MySQL info. Here are my…

  • WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks

    UPDATED 4/29/2009 – My original conclusion about Permalinks not working with Godaddy hosting has a new conclusion. Zac Vineyard noted below that it can take up to an hour to update the .htaccess file on the server so that the Permalinks work. I have personally confirmed that this does indeed…

  • WordPress on a stick for Meeting Notes – E-mail Meeting Attendees

    I had an additional idea about using WordPress for meeting notes after seeing Vicent Pratts’ Email Users Plug-in. Basically this plug-in gives you ability to e-mail a post to people registered to your blog. The way that you could use this for meetings is that after you take the notes,…

  • Round Rock Web Design Blog # 6 on Google

    I did a quick check this morning on Google for the Phrase “Round Rock Web Design” and low and behold – the blog I setup on wordpress.com is # 6 in Google results. The coolest thing about it is that I did not put quotes “” around the phrase so…

  • WordPress Permalink Post Names for SEO

    In my post “themastersfamily.net – Page Rank 4” – I mentioned that I had changed the permalink structure for SEO purposes to the following – websitename.com/postname-postid.htm I did this based on the theory that Google puts more emphasis of pages from the root of the site then a page in…