When Link Builders Go Mad (and other stuff too)

August 8, 2008 – 2:36 pm

Yep its happened again. Link builders not being happy with developing links for clients websites. The endless drudgery of submitting to directories, cosying upto bloggers, submitting RSS feeds, doing some online PR, syndicating articles and frequent social booking has led to some of my link developer guys deciding to build websites (which at the same [...]

By mercurythread | Posted in Blogging, Link Day | Comments (0)

WordPress Themes that make you go WOW!!!

April 6, 2008 – 7:54 pm

WordPress is great. It lets me do everything I could ever want from making templates for websites, reconfiguring layout to have blogs, magazines and websites all within the one CMS just by hacking with templates, I can develop plugins and if I break it there is a huge community out there to help – and [...]

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How to Check that Your WordPress Blog is Pinging

April 2, 2008 – 7:23 pm

This is the last post in the series we’ve been doing about WordPress and pinging blog aggregation services. I’ve been scouting around really desperately testing various pieces of kit to be able to prove, mainly to myself, that my clients blogs are pinging effectively – this has been ok on servers we run but on [...]

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3 sites you should ping to maximise your blog visbility

April 1, 2008 – 12:42 pm

Years ago, in a dimly lit living room Peter Hoggan started talking to me about blog and ping as a way of increasing website visibility. To be honest it was late, I’d just driven home from the other side of the country and all I wanted to do was get a pint or ten. But [...]

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SezWho Plugin for WordPress

March 28, 2008 – 4:43 pm

As I’m still getting to grips with which WordPress Plugins I’m putting them in -> testing them -> deciding whether to keep them or not. The one that I’m loving at the moment is the SezWho Plugin. I found it over at Andy Beards blog on his comments and decided to use/pinch the idea.

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LinkLove Plugin for WordPress

March 28, 2008 – 12:25 pm

One of the things about blogs is the use of the ‘nofollow’ attribute on links. Supposedly this was to help cut down the numbers of spam comments that blogs receive. However it can be a real pain in the ass. People who contribute to communities dont get the link love that they deserve.

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WordPress not pinging

March 27, 2008 – 2:55 pm

I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to work out why in the name of all that is holy my blog aint pinging services such as pingomatic and pingoat. And after a little while I found that my problem was that my hosting company had SafeMode turned On.
Apparently the outgoing request file was about [...]

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Mercury Thread Blog now Live

March 25, 2008 – 9:41 pm

Well I’ve finally succumbed to having a blog over here at Mercury Thread. As part of our recent revamp we’ve been writing new content for the site, getting a new design and working harder than ever to develop a website which we’re pleased with.
In the past couple of months I’ve not really had a chance [...]

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