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An honest opinion? Wordpress.org.

Wordpress.com has various pro’s and con’s of which will be covered in this post. Many of the negatives of wordpress.com do not exist when you choose wordpress.org as your solution.

In a nutshell, wordpress.com is a hosted solution wheras wordpress.org is a blog you own, you install and you run on your own hosting.

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Its been said many times on this blog to try and at least blog once a day. Why? It drives traffic. People like new content to read, search engines like to index new content. OK - lets be realistic, if you run your blog as a hobby sometimes you cant make a post every day, then that leads to another day, then another and you end up not blogging for a month *cough* not guilty *cough*.

If you get a fantastic idea in your head you want to share - you do actually go home after work at night and blog about it. Its just getting those ideas. Here are some of the ways to get ideas to write about;

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A largely missed concept with webmasters is how to use 301 redirects.   They are the only safe SEO redirect.

With regards to SEO and the duplicate content penalty, you should redirect all non www requests on your domain to www unless there is a special case where this is required for site functionality.   This means…

http://tdcreative.net is 301′ed to http://www.tdcreative.net
http://tdcreative.net/my-post is 301′ed to http://www.tdcreative.net/my-post

Any person involved with SEO should know this and it can be achieved with a few lines of .htaccess code placed in the public root of your FTP, sometimes public_html or httpdocs.  An example….

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^your-domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.your-domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Simply add this code to the top of your .htaccess file.

Very simple, very effective.

This post is about how to write decent Wordpress articles. This blog may not be the perfect example of decent articles, mainly because this is a personal blog which I dabble with here and there, but here it goes anyway…
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Again, this is a short post, but one that is to the point. I’m not a fan of waffly posts that take 3 pages to read which could have been explained in about 3 sentences.

photo credit: ..· ✈Katherina ➳·..

Readers love content…I mean…”Content is King” . Readers also love images, pictures. As they say, a picture paint a thousand words…Imagine how many words it would take and how long it would actually take to write to explain the picture to the left…

On some of the more recent blog posts and future blog posts, you will see interesting and relavent picture cropping up. Maybe not in all posts, but in the majority of them.

Why? Because it gives the blog a proffesional look and feel. Check out the Photo Dropper plugin and start integrating Flickr pictures in your blog.

Creative Commons + Flickr + Wordpress = AWESOME PICTURES FOR YOUR WEBSITE!