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Wordpress Bloggers

Wordpress is a good platform for bloggers, but the Wordpress Bloggers are still wondering about some questions. Let me answer those questions for them.

The questions are simple and the answers are simpler, but most of the bloggers remains busy in posting content and getting traffic. The question appears in their mind for a moment or two, but they ignore it due to lack of time.

Here are the questions:

Q.1. How to change the wp-admin username?
Ans. There are different ways of doing that, I would recommend a Wordpress Plugin: WPVN – Username Changer.

Q.2. How to protect the content from being copied?
Ans. Again, there are different ways of doing that, a plugin named WP-CopyProtect works good. It allows you to disable right click or to disable selection, or you can disable both. But people can still copy your content from RSS Feeds, so do remember to show only the summary in RSS feeds.

To show only the summary, open http://www.*yourblog.com*/wp-admin/options-reading.php Go to “For each article in a feed, show”, select SUMMARY and save changes.

Q.3. How to get rid of spam comments? or How to set up Akismet?
Ans.

a). How to get rid of spam comments?
Set up Akismet and it will take care of the spam comments.

b). How to set up Akismet?
First of all let me introduce to Akismet, it is a wordpress plugin which is used to get rid of spam comments. Akismet is there in the wordpress plugins by default, and once it is activated, it will keep bugging you to enter API key (as shown below).

Akismet API Key

Setting up Akismet is a simple task. Let me tell you how to set up Akismet.
- Open www.wordpress.com
- Register there. (Or Login if you have an account with Wordpress.com).
- Enter in your Wordpress.com account.
- Open http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/profile.php
- There you will find your Wordpress API Key.
- Enter that API Key in the Akismet, Save changes and you are done.

Q.4. How to change Avatar?
Ans. You can change Avatar from Gravatar.com, it will give you a globally recognized avatar.

Q.5. How to set up Time Zone in Wordpress Blogs?
Ans. To set your Time Zone in Wordpress:
- Open http://www.*yourblog.com*/wp-admin/options-general.php
- Go to Time Zone and choose the city which is in the same time zone as you.
- Save Changes.

I hope these answers will be helping Wordpress Bloggers in some or the other way. That’s all for now, do let me know if this was helpful to you, if you have any other question please use the comment box to ask, and I will surely try to get rid of the problem.

Keep Blogging. Have Fun.

Permalink Settings – Optimizing The Onpage SEO

The structure of permalinks play a very important role in onpage seo of the wordpress blog. Changing the settings can get you some good amount of traffic from search engines. Usually new bloggers forget to change the structure in starting, and later it becomes too late because the indexed pages will be having a different permalink and when they change the permalinks all the indexed pages will give page not found error. So, remember to change your permalink structure before making the first post.

In case, you forgot to change your permalinks in the starting of your blog, don’t worry, you are not that late just change the permalink structure and install a wordpress plugin “Permalinks Moved Permanently”. This will help you in getting the rid of the problems.

The default permalink looks like http://www.xyz***blog.com/p=123, this kind of permalink structure is not good for SEO, a better structure can have keywords in the link which will be good for search engine rankings. Now, to change the permalink structure, open your admin panel and move on to Permalinks (/wp-admin/options-permalink.php) and change the structure to one of the following:

a). /%category%/%postname%/

This will show your category and post title in the link for example:

http://www.amblogger.com/blogging-tips/how-to-install-wordpress/

In the above link, “blogging tips” is the category and “how to install wordpress” is the title of the post.

b). /%postname%/

This will only show the post title in the link, example:

http://www.amblogger.com/how-to-install-wordpress/

But this link will not work because I have the settings which are there in a).

If you will be using one of the above permalink settings then you will surely get good amount of traffic coming from search engines. You can also try other combinations, 4 options are already there.

I hope this post might be helpful for wordpress bloggers.

Happy Blogging …!