Where to allow dofollow and nofollow links on your blog

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Nofollow is an HTML attribute value which tells search engines to not follow a link. Search engines like Google use internal and external links to determine page ranks (or which pages are important and which are unimportant). Webmaster’s use the “nofollow” attribute to tell search engines that a link is not important. By telling search engines that a link is not worth following, webmaster’s can preserve the rankings of individual pages.

How to change the links on your blog to nofollow

There are a few different ways you can change the attribute of links on your blog or website. You can manually change each of the links by adding rel=“nofollow” in each of the <a> (link) tags. In WordPress, you can click on the HTML tab of your post editor and insert the “nofollow” attribute on each of the links manually. You can also click insert/edit link button in the post editor, then click the “Advanced” tab and then change the  ”Relationship page to target” setting to “nofollow.” For WordPress blogs, you can also install a plugin which will automatically add the “nofollow” relation to the links you specify.

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Tags: blog seo, html
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How to change the fonts on your WordPress blog theme

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Do the fonts on your free WordPress theme cause you to puke in your mouth a little every time you look at them? Or maybe you are just tired of looking at the same fonts and need something new. In either case, this guide is for you.

The truth is, fonts are like hats. Some hats are very ugly hats.

So let’s go hat shopping!

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Tags: css, html, styles, themes
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How to get WordPress to stop removing your break tags

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Oh the joy of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors. They make all of the difficult things involved in editing an HTML/PHP page easy but they make all of the easy things impossible. One such easy-thing-turned-impossible is the ability to insert <br> tags to create line breaks.

It seems the WordPress developers did not think the average blogger wise enough to use discretion with <br> tags. The TinyMCE editor that comes with WordPress, at its default setting, will automatically remove <br> and <p> tags (that are empty). Although this may simplify the editing process, it proves to be a major pain in the ass for users who may need the <br> tag to push text further down a post so it doesn’t align horizontally with an image or if they just plain like to see giant spaces between their paragraphs (who doesn’t?).

To remove this wonderful feature in WordPress, you will need to download the TinyMCE Advanced Plugin. This amazing little plugin is the best thing since Akismet (the WordPress equivalent of sliced bread). With the plugin, you will be able to:

• Deactivate the removal of <br> and <p> tags after saving in TinyMCE
• Change the button arrangement of your buttons in TinyMCE
• Add over 20 buttons onto your TinyMCE editor that did not exist before
• Imports all CSS classes from the main theme’s stylesheet and add them to a drop-down list
• Do search and replace editing
• Add inline CSS styles to your elements
• And more

That said, TinyMCE Advanced is a must-have plugin for the adept blogger.

Tags: html, plugins
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