A major marketer emailed me today, and so I went to his promotional WordPress blog to look around…

…and couldn’t believe my eyes!

Despite offering my ‘Top 10 Tricks To Conquer Your Niche With WordPress‘ report (revised every year) since 2005, many major marketers are still doing the ‘out of the box’ WordPress blog – and paying for it in search engine rankings!

Simple tweaks, like making sure your titles are <H1> or <H2> tags, and setting up your permalinks properly, can make a huge difference.

A few months back, …

Depending on who your talk to, feeds are the next replacement for email, or just a convenient way to read sites quickly – you choose!

So if they’re so darn important – what are they?

The simplest explanation is that a feed is a text-only representation of the blog’s contents – minus all the images, colors, and layout that adds so much to a site (of course, that’s not entirely true: images are possible, but not as many as a regular website, and it’s rare).

So why use it? …

The March 2007 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is ready.

Topics:

WordPress Security Update – And Do You REALLY Need To Upgrade?

Tell A Friend (TAF) Scripts And Why They ARE Bad

Is Email Safe For Your Blog Anymore?

Adding SAFE ‘Post Notify’ Emails to Your Blog

ActiveBlogging Reworking

Which WordPress Version is Which?

Current Deals

Download ‘The ActiveBlogging Report‘ for March 2007.

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded some old blogs – I’ve been running 1.5.2 on a few, and decided 2.1.2 finally seemed safe enough for me, and went ahead (including ActiveBlogging).

The good news – as long as the mySQL version on your site is 4.0 or higher, the new version works well (and if you still have version 3 of mySQL, you will sooner or later need to get good web hosting for WordPress.

And while I know there’s an official WordPress upgrade method, I get impatient, and …

If you’re paying attention to the site changes, then you’ll understand why The ActiveBlogging Report is late this month – stay tuned for further updates!