When choosing the title of your post, it’s important to keep a few things in mind. These being a) are you approaching it from an SEO point of view or b) are you writing it as a title to ‘catch’ your audience?
Of course a combination of both would be the best, although it will be alot harder to write one of these.
For example, from an SEO point of view, you’d want to write: “How To Drive Traffic Using Articles”, this would give the best long term SEO value for your post as it is exactly what someone might type into Google searching for that information.
From a ‘catchy’ point of view, you may write instead: “Articles Articles, Read All About It!”, ok that wasn’t the best example but you can see what I mean.
SEO works if you’ve already got a good Google Page rank, as posts you write will appear higher up in the Search Ranking on the 1st page.
Writing catchy post titles works if you drive traffic by other means, such as through Twitter, which benefits alot more from short interesting info bytes, such as a catchy title.
If you’ve got tonnes of direct traffic, then it doesn’t really matter, you can lable post titles whatever you want.
For the rest of us, spare a thought about how you phrase your title, SEO or short and snappy, it can make a big difference.
Till next time,
-William Lee
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How To Add A Gravatar Image To Your Comments/ Blog
February 17th, 2009Adding your picture to your comments with the Gravatar service is a great was to feel more ‘connected’ with your readers, or as a reader yourself.
Well that’s because they’ve set up a Gravatar account which is linked to their email address. Whenever you leave a comment (with a Gravatr linked e-mail address) then your selected picture will appear in the box next to the comments section.
To setup a Gravatar account follow these steps:
1) Go to http://gravatar.com
2) Sign up for an account
3)Login to your new account
4) Click ‘Add an Email Address’
5) Type in your e-mail address that you use to leave comments (or the admin e-mail address you use for your blog) and click ‘add’
6) Click ‘add a new image’
7) Upload a picture from your hard disk, a website or straight from your webcam.
9) Select the image that you just uploaded
10) Click ‘confirm’ when it asks you to
It’s as simple as that! Leave a comment with your new Gravatar picture below to test it out.
But what if you don’t have the little box next to your comments on your blog? How do you install it?
This only works if you have a Wordpress blog.
1) You need to have access to the files on your server. For that, I’ll leave it up to you to figure out how to get them. I use Dreamweaver to get to my files.
2) Find http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/comments.php (where yourdomain.com represents where you installed your blog and yourtheme is the theme you are using for your Wordpress blog)
3) Open comments.php in Dreamweaver or notepad if you don’t have it.
4) Find this line:
Anything under this line is for the comments section of your blog.
5) If you want to put your Gravatar icon above your name in the comment box (like my comment box below) then search for this line.
and ABOVE it paste this line:
where the number represents how big you want the Gravatar image to be. Default is 32 (i.e. 32×32 pixels big) but I put mine a little bit bigger.
6) Save your file and upload it back to your server.
7) Refresh your page and the box for Gravatar images should be there.
Please remember that not all themes are the same and this method may or may not work for you. But it should work for the default and more popular themes out there.
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Thanks,
-William Lee
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