joelwalsh

Hi, I just tried it out and it’s nice. Please do post your plugin. If there really isn’t a full-text version that works reliably in all installations I’d be happy to use a forward-a-link version.

Thanks

Joel

Did you remove the “full text” option because it was causing problems?

Note to entrepreneurs: a web hosting company that specialized in WordPress, offering full support for all plugins, would fill a huge need and to some extent could name its price, as well having a great opportunity to cross-sell design and programming services.

The guarantee is theoretically possible if it’s a money-back guarantee or some kind of performance-based payment system. For instance, if you don’t get to no. 1 for X competitive keyword within 6 months, they give your money back or 50% off or something. No one can guarantee how high a page goes on Google or any other search engine they don’t own, because the search engines are all run by companies that have interests other than helping out SEOs or website owners–like pleasing the people who use them to find the most relevant sites.

What often happens, as the other posters here are implying, is that an SEO company will guarantee no. 1 rankings for a very uncompetitive term, i.e., a term that no one or hardly anyone ever searches on, and whose number-one result currently is not competitive (low PR). I could guarantee you number-one rankings for “dog grooming products anchorage alaska” or something like that. Most often the people who buy into these things are complete idiots at least in the field of web business, and are satisfied when they get to number-one for their business name or some uncompetitive keyword, and just curse the internet when they don’t get customers.

As for how do you get links on high-PR pages: it’s simple, you buy them. There are sites like linkworth and textlinkads that facilitate these sales. For a prominent link on a well-trafficked, highly relevant PR6 or above homepage you are easily looking at $1000/month, though truth be told you might be paying that much in pay-per-click charges if you used Adwords to get on that page.

You can also get a link on a PR 6 webpage, at least temporarily, by blogging. Many blog homepages have PR 6 and many of them will put a full post on the homepage, which often includes links to other websites.

Yes, use the plugin elis just recommended, it’s a lot easier than coding by hand which is what the “transpose” plugin required:

https://guff.szub.net/email-immunizer/

accidental dupe.

Wow, it’s like you two read my mind with this post exchange. I’ve been wondering about this for days.

Does it work the same way for footer etc.?

Do you have to call it with h1? Because it’s much better to have each post’s title be the h1, and not having dozens of pages with the exact same h1. I’m referring not only to users but search engines. Could you call it with a div? Is there a div in the header template?

WordPress should be able to handle any html you throw at it in a post or page or even a comment (unless you’ve disabled html). So you could just use the standard:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]" > mail < /a>

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Plus, it will usually automatically convert URLs and email addresses to live links with the address itself as the anchor text. So if you just type in your email address in the post or page it should convert into a live link.

So, you could just do: [email protected]

If you mean how do you create a link to your email address that uses javascript to avoid having the address get picked up by spambots, there’s a plugin for that with the word “transpose” in the name, something like “transpose-email.”

Hey Angsuman,

Is your site

https://www.taragana.com/site/

or blog.taragana.ocm ?

I’d say that for both sites, it’s not clear what keywords you’re targeting. You’re at number-2 on Google for “simple thoughts” but how much good does that do you?

Even though on-the-page keyword optimization isn’t nearly as important as it used to be, it’s still worthwhile and I think it can make a significant difference in competitive search terms for MSN, and I know for a fact it’s a very big factor in non-competitive keyword search rankings in all the major search engines. The target keywords should be incorporated into page titles and h1 headers, and if possible in h2 headers and anchor text of links on the page as well.

Of course, the anchor text of inbound links is still factor no. 1 in terms of importance. But when people link to your site they will be much more likely to use your target keywords if you put the target keywords in the homepage title and/or h1 header.

After all, having the search term “simple thoughts” in your title and top header have helped catapult you to the top of google for that term. Now you just need to put that magic to work for a more valuable term (just don’t go for one that’s too competitive; search on possible target terms and note what the PR of the top-ranked 2-3 sites is; if it’s higher than 5, I’d probably try something else).

1. The link:yoursite.com function in google does not display an accurate number of links, and hasn’t for about 2 years now. The issue was that the feature was being heavily abused by over-SEOers and Google is pretty seo-unfriendly in general. MSN and Yahoo both have more accurate (but still not comprehensive) link:domain features. A PR of 4 indicates the site has a relatively high number of inbound links or at least the links are from high PR sites.

2. The term “dog training” is way way way too competitive for you to rank highly for right now. The number one site on Google for that string is a site with a PR 6. Get to a PR 6 then come asking for how to get to number one on that term.

3. Also, it’s not just an issue of PR. The biggest factor is whether the inbound links have the term and variations of it in the anchor text. Make sure you get links with “dog trainging” “training dog” “training dogs” “dogs training” “dog training tips” etc. in the anchor text and not just https://freedogtraininginfo.com

4. For what little it’s worth, your h1 headers should all incorporate target keywords. “Welcome” in an h1 is a waste of space.

Finally found a page that already has a thubmnail gallery: https://www.blogsome.com/wordpress-themes.php

I’m still having the exact same problem. Anyone know if this is hidden somewhere in the codex?

Update (since I’m sure other people are searching on this and finding this thread):

I am using micfo.com right now and I have to say the hosting is uneven at best. Plenty of headaches along the way though they are pretty honest and do eventually offer everything they claim. It’s just when your email keeps freezing up for days on days you just wish things would work.

This site not only offers cheap pre-configured wordpress installations but also provides support for about a dozen plugins. I have not tried them out but worth a look:

https://www.hostmysite.com/support/blog/plugins/

https://themes.wordpress.net/thumbs/

That’s great! That’s pretty much what I was looking for. I’ll just batch download the whole lot and flip through them with local pic viewer software.

Some information that would be useful for this is the rights/licensing on the themes and the images they contain. Are they all the same OS license as WP? If there are different licenses, that would be important to have attached to the thumbnail some how.

Hi again,

Well, TG sent me an email last night saying he’ll send me the updated theme, since I’m using the old version apparently (it was on OSWT). We can go from there in terms of seeing what if anything needs to be fixed.

I had tried searching for textarea and cols=100% in all the theme components and never found it. So I wasn’t sure if maybe it was in the wp- standard files, since it looks like every single wp site has a textarea that’s the same size, and it would be surprising if designers didn’t voluntarily choose to do things differently each his own.

The Codex discusses the issue of the textarea being too wide because of problems in the preceding CSS but it doesn’t get any more specific about where to look. If any Codex authors are reading this, this would be a nice thing to go into greater detail over. The themes will be put under greater stress as more and more plugins are added (though it seems plugins are not the issue here since I’ve disabled them all).