Last week i had my WordPress gone hare-wire. It was i nightmare when i saw my blog content is being duplicated. Not by other bloggers but by my WP blog itself. You see, when google sees your site has duplicate content, most likely your blog might get penalized by not being index in their search engine for selected keywords or phrases. And this happened when i realized that my blog aren’t performing quite well with optimized keywords even though i did major SEO tweaking.

So i check my content with copyscape, and there was no copy cats copying my stuff. Then i typed “site:www.romicozone.com” in google and wallah, it showed up the following top 3 result:

1. www.romicozone.com
2. www.romicozone.com/blog
3. romicozone.com

All these URL redirect to my index home page which mean these three link showed up the same page. And Google sees my blog content has duplicated content. But then i manage solve problem number 1 and 2 by following Wordpress Guide. For the number 3 problem, i had to somehow redirect the romicozone.com to the conical URL which is www.romicozone.com - see the www deferent. The easiest way to avoid this is create a .htaccess with the following code:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yoursite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Then upload the .htaccess file to where your Wordpress index.php folder is. It took me about 30 minute to figured it out and 5 minute to solve it. After 2 or 3 days (to make sure Google spidered my site) i check again my site in Google and both www.romicozone.com/blog and romicozone.com are gone.

So go ahead check your WordPress blog with “site:www.yoursite.com” in Google, and see what showed up. And follow above steps if you sufered duplicate content by your own blog.

Most likely every-time i update my Wordpress version, i tend come across problems. So every-time before i upgrade, i will check every plug-in compatibility. But this time different, i found no reason i shouln’t install any of my existing plugins. The problem accure when i can’t see my Wordpress visual editor a.k.a TinyMCE show up and the buttons (bold, italic, link, block quote) were missing. This happened for both Firefox and IE. Some people suggested to ucheck ‘Replace or Disable context menu’ in Tool–>Option–>Content–>Advanced with Firefox. Some claim have success using this hacks but unfortunately for me. For my Wordpress TinyMCE nightmare problem, i have solve it by uploading all the content in wp-includes\js\tinymce folder to your web server. And all the missing buttons and the visual editor itself has shown up.And i notice the navigations speed are also increased. You might wanna try either one of these hack, this apply especially if you upgraded your Wordpress within Cpanel. Fresh install shouldn’t have problem

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In my last post, i have talk about what are Page Rank and why they are important. It also show’s how’s reciprocal links are usefull in order to get your site or blog popularity increase. In this post i will teach step-by-step hoe to get a domain name with ranked PR.

When i’m talking instant rank, don’t expect getting a 5 PR. By using this method, you will get an average 3 PR, if above than that, you’re a lucky!. But sure enough you’ll get a ranked domain. Though there’s two draw back using this method that i must point first.

• You won’t get the exect domain name the way you want. Because you’re about to use a used domain names.
• Time consuming. Since not all expired domain names are well PR-ed. Out of thaousands of expired domains, only 5% - 7% are well rank. So there’s going to be a lot of work. But it’s worth of it.

Before we start, go get yourself a free copy of Google Page Rank Checker v 1.0 software, then go to Pool website and click the ‘download full list’ link. As you can see it stated there ‘full list of domains deleting in the next 5 days!’, though some of the domain are already expired by the time you download the list. Once you have both of the items, proceed the folowing steps:

1. Unzip the PoolDeletingDomainsList.zip, inside the folder there’s a PoolDeletingDomainsList.txt which is in text format.
2. Change the text format into excel format by simply change .txt to .csv.
3. Now open the using Microsoft Excel. The domain names and the expirering date are now saperated.
4. Select and copy up to about the 500 of domain names. More than that, Google Page Rank Checker software might crash.
5. Create a new text file and paste the domin name list. Name the file domain.txt.
6. Fire up the Google Page Rank Checker. Click import, search the domain.txt and click open.
7. Finally click Check button and wait untill the software finish finalizing the domain names.
8. When it’s done, you can check the page rank for every each of the 500 domain name.
9. If you lucky enough, you’ll find the right domain name with a PR. If that’s not the case, the repeat 3 untill step 7 with the next 500 domain names, untill you find the right names with PR.

There you go. I have cleared up everything. Please feel free to ask any questions or add suggestion that i have missed.

Exchange links is crucial if you want to improve your Google Page Rank. Why do people do it. Most of the part is because SE (search engine) love website with high page ranks. It shows readers likes your pages, meaning there’s alot of traffic. A website also can get index by SE by link exchange. Some people buy links to but sometimes it’s too expensive, idealy we do reciprocal links.

So how do we do it in Wordpress, go grab your self a copy of Linkman. This is a great reciprocal links script plus it’s free. We are going to implant this script into Wordpress, so brace yourself, and here we go

1. Extract the zip file, open up the folder and use your favorite text editor to open setting.php file, change the password for admin and website URL. Others are optional.
2. Upload to Wordpress root folder, it should look like www.yoursite.com/blog/linkman
3. Next go to www.nosq.com and download RunPHP wordpress plugin. Install and activate the plugin (Assume you already know how to do this).
4. Now login to your Wordpress admin, and create new page, enter Partners both in the title column and post slug. Make sure the run PHP code? is tick.
5. In the Page Content insert these script
   <phpcode>
<?php include("/path/to/my/links.php"); ?>
</phpcode>
   The “/path/to/my/links.php” can be “../linkman/links.php” or “www.yoursite.com/blog/linkman/links.php”, try each one and see which works.

6. With your text editor open up the form.html and copy the whole script and paste it just below the php script above. And save.
7. There you have it a complete reciprocal links in your wordpress blog. So now you have to do is login to linkman login page eg. www.yoursite.com/linkman/index.php and edit the setting there, it’s pretty straight forward.

Noted: Some have encountered problem when submitting links. As alternative you can use a pop-up script to open the form, rather than paste the form.html script into the page it self. Go to Pop-up Javascipt creator page, follow the instructions.

Pop-up Tips: Copy the Step One script in header.php within the theme that you’re using. And copy the Step Second in the page content with the script above.

FeedBurner really makes me and my readers life easier to. It help me feed my post to readers into their feed aggregator, so they could read my blog post without entering my blog site. Most importantly it’s included all the tools that are required as a blogger master. For instance in the feed stats section, i can view how many, how and from where people subscribe my feed.

Feedburner also feature life ‘Live Hits’ which is handy to know where your viewer coming from.On my side bar (scroll down). You can see my feed link a.k.a chicklets. These chicklet are generated by feedburner. So if my reader have a google aggregator, they would click on the ‘Add to Google’ chicklet. Same goes to Yahoo, MSN, My OAL etc. Oh, if you see below my chicklets, there’s an email subscriptions, guess what, it’s from Feed Burner to. How cool is that.. I won’t go into details about ‘How To’s’ FeedBurner, just go to FeedBurner and register. The setup is flawless, no html knowledge required, step by step instruction are given. But if you stuck or need more customization on your blog just ask me in the comment section.

Another alternative, well…. if you think it’s to hassle to know about your reader, but still want the chicklet in your blog, go to IfeedReader. No registration required. Just plain feed without visitor stat. And go here if you want email subscription alternate.

Yep, everybody know wordpress is so much better for creating blog website. Users has the power to customized thier wordpress/blog looks. Not to say Blogspot users can’t. But with all the plugin’s and thousand of tempelates, who can’t resist wordpress.

So i’m taking this chance to change my blogger blog to wordpress. Lucky for me, i don’t have to download any wordpress script. My web host already has Wordpress pre install. i’ve just change the theme and addon some usefull plugins. So there’s you have it my own wordpress blog.

Btw: If some of you are new in these, go to Wordpess site for documentation and tutorials for furture instruction how to install.