HMR, SoundRecordingStudioSoftware, and Ytube updated yesterday.
WPM -> 2.2.3
PheedPress
Needed to re-work:
- many plugins needed updating
- theme mods needed re-instating
- nav bar
- side bar widgets (contents ok, but had to drag back into place)
Note: Ytube has subdirectory install (ytube.com/blog/).  For PheedPress to configure ok, I installed in the root (/public_html/, not /blog/), and configured it for /blog/.
Seems […]

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Web2S: Ken, you were one of the “early adopters” of Web2Submitter. Why Did you buy Web2Submitter in the first place?
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Ken: Well, in fact I didn’t actually buy Web2Submitter - it was included with my ASC Elite membership… But I certainly do make regular use of Web2Submitter, and have since […]

Removed sticky status from home page welcome post - to see if it made any difference to Technorati.
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Googlebot last successfully accessed SBG home page April 20!!
Updated Google site map settings to check - home page (was daily already) and posts daily  (was monthly)
Rebuilt sitemap, and pinged Google.
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Made these changes today as part of strategy to clean up internal navigation.
1. Removed “sticky” status from “category” and “sub-category” posts.
Aim is to create “dynamic” home page.
2. Added 3 items to Nav Bar:

Home Music Studio
Music Recording Techniques and Tips
Digital Recording Equipment

3. Edited (all?) posts to use the “more” function.
Aim is to focus topic content on […]

Many blog posts provide social comment or industry comment as one way to provide valuable content for readers in your market niche.

Here are some tips on how to do this effectively. It’s based on a post on Feb 24 2007 on Jack Humphrey’s Friday Traffic Report.

On Eileen’s advice (to avoid hyphen confusion), we changed the scrapbooking site domain name to scrapbookinggems.com
The process was pretty straightforward, although there was a lot of “tidying up” to do.
Biggest task was to update image urls embedded in posts.
Basic Process: 

Backup existing site to local PC
Select & register new domain name
Set DNS at registrar to same as […]

Week 3:               
Carry over from wk2:
(This is far too much carry-over!)

Identify relevant news service(s), and enrol in at least 2

* (eg a general news service covering topic, and a major supplier’s newsletter)
bloglines.com
mywebtop.com

Create at least 2 short posts (50-250 words) based on news items of interest
Use Trackbacks
Find 2 new content sources eg. News, articles, RSS feeds etc
learn […]

Week 2:    
Carry over from wk1:

Identify relevant news service(s), and enrol in at least 2

* (eg a general news service covering topic, and a major supplier’s newsletter)
bloglines.com
mywebtop.com

Create at least 2 short posts (50-250 words) based on news items of interest
Use Trackbacks
Find 2 new content sources eg. News, articles, RSS feeds etc

New for wk2:

Create 2 or more articles, […]

One of the best things about Word Press Master (WPM) that we use here at the RPM Institute is that a lot of the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is done automatically when WPM is used properly.

For example:

Post or Article titles become html <H1> tags and meta <title>
our optional insert (description) becomes the meta description
by turning on an option in Ultimate Tag Warrior, the UTW tags also become meta keywords
Note: Although meta-keywords are not used by so many of the search engines these days, some still do use them so we should turn this option on. (This is a beautiful thing to a person who used to worry about doing all of that by hand.)