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When you install WordPress for your blog, they automatically put what is known as a “trackback file” in the main section of your blog folder. The actual file shows up in your blog folder as “wp-trackback.php”, and has no use except to send you an email pertaining to changes in your WordPress. This file is used to reference comments made on your blog and post changes you may have made in the backend admin, then send you an email with a notification.

When you upgrade your WordPress to the latest versions, WordPress automatically installs the trackback file again. Therefore in order to prevent the trackback messages from clogging up your email, you may want to delete the file each time you have a new update. The file has no purpose that affects the functionality of your blog, so deleting it won’t have any adverse effects.

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When filtering spam comments on your blog, a few considerations need to be focused on. Identify whether you are looking at an actual comment by a human or a program designed to add comments for the purposes of gaining a backlink.

Besides some of the add ons and plugins that are offered with most blogs to filter spam, you may still have to delete some spam that gets through those defenses. When you notice a comment has nothing to do with the post you wrote, chances are you can delete it for being spam. Sometimes you can recoginze blog spam comments by the website it links back to.

A great way to filter a large portion of blog comment spam is with the WordPress Akismet and the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam plugins.

Here are some examples of some actual comments on my blog that I approved:

Dear Rog,
MUCH BETTER! I like the new vid much better.

I very much appreciate this update my computer has had some issues so this will definitely help

The tips provided by you are very good and useful.
Thanks

I really enjoyed flicking through this. Think I’m going to look through your other posts!

Spam has always been a problem, and seems to be getting worse every day. A good way to tell if a comment is spam is to see if it has anything to do with your blog post or if it is just a general comment. Spam comments usually say something like, “while the sites we link to below are completely unrelated to ours, we think they are worth a read, so have a look” or “we like to honor other sites on the internet, even if they aren’t related to us, by linking to them. Below are some websites worth checking out.”

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Spending time removing email and blog comment spam is a nuisance, so take these tips and advice to save it instead.

When filtering spam comments on your blog, a few considerations need to be focused on. Identify whether you are looking at an actual comment made by a human or one from a program designed to add comments and for the purposes of gaining backlinks. These bots can be eliminated and a large portion of this spam could be filtered by requiring visitors to enter a captcha in order to comment. That way you know every comment posted was entered by a human.

Another great way to filter a large portion of blog comment spam is to use plugins and add-ons that are designed to detect and delete them. They can lessen the load of the number of comments that need to be tossed in the trash and keep your blog spam free.

The tips provided by you are very good and useful. Thanks!

I really enjoyed flicking through this. Think I’m going to look through your other posts!

Besides some of the add-ons and plugins that are offered with most blogs, you may still have to filter some spam that gets through those defenses. When you notice a comment has nothing to do with the post you wrote, chances are you can delete it for being spam. Sometimes you can recoginze blog spam comments by the website it links back to.

Have a look at this WordPress CAPTCHA Plugin Video Tutorial and other tips and advice on Filtering WordPress Blog Spam.

Some sidebar ideas for a main website or blog is one of the first hurdles to get over when deciding on the creation of a new web design. Keep in mind that different sidebars could be applied for each section, tab, or page of your website. Review these ideas that could inspire you to plan out your website design a little easier.

Sidebar Ideas for the Main Website:

• A social networking feed such as Twitter or Facebook
• Provide a search box for easy navigation for your visitors
• Contact information to make it easy for visitors to contact you
• Add your picture to help create a relationship with your readers
• Subscription buttons to provide methods to subscribe to your blog

Sidebar Ideas for Your Blog:

• Provide a search box for easy blog navigation for your visitors
• Links to archives by date to make it easy for readers to locate old content
• Add a popular posts link to redirect your visitors to your readers’ favorites
• Add a list of recent posts on your blog’s sidebar to encourage additional page views
• A categories list should be added to help your blog readers find posts on a particular topic

If you are running your blog on WordPress, there are a variety of add-ons that can make it easy to customize your sidebar any way you choose, and change it as often as you like. A well designed website is about easy navigation by your visitors, so consider these web design sidebar ideas to use in your small business website.

Filtering spam comments on your WordPress blog can be a nuisance because you have to determine the difference between whether your site was commented by an actual human or received spam from an automated bot that tries to get inbound links to another website. A new WordPress plugin known as SI CAPTCHA forces your WordPress blog visitor to enter a 4 character code, or captcha, to prove they are an actual human visitor and post a comment.

To install this plugin, after logging in your admin dashboard, click the down arrow next to the plugins tab and choose “add new”. Use the search function to locate the “SI CAPTCHA” plugin, click the install link on the right, then click the red install link on the next screen. Click “activate once the plugin is installed and you’re finished. Visit my father’s website and view his WordPress CAPTCHA Plugin Video Tutorial for a detailed step-by-step guide on how to install the SI CAPTCHA WordPress plugin.

With the SI CAPTCHA WordPress plugin, when someone tries to enter a comment they will have to enter a captcha code of 4 characters and press submit comment, therefore filtering out any non human comments that would spam your blog. This makes your job of approving or trashing comments that have been left much easier because only the ones left by humans will appear.

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You can backup and update your WordPress blog very easily. On your administrator dashboard, when you get notifications of a new version of WordPress saying what the new version is, just click on that link to get started. Then you will have the option to backup your blog posts, that is up to you. I backup my blog posts in notepad anyway, and backing up is a good idea in case something ever goes wrong with your blog host.

Then you will see two options, download the update or automatically update, and I suggest the automatic update. Once you click the automatic update, just sit back and let WordPress do the rest. In a couple minutes you’ll have your updated version of WordPress.

Next, you might see a red square with a number next to your plugins on the left column of the WordPress dashboard. Click on those to activate them again, but there is really no reason to activate the “Hello Dolly” plugin, unless you want lines from Hello Dolly to show up on your blog.

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Learn more about WordPress Advantages Over Blogger and a Blogger to WordPress Blog Conversion that I did for Masterson Construction.

Wordpress has advantages over Blogger for a variety of reasons. Doing a conversion from Blogger to WordPress may be tedious depending on how many posts need to be converted, but it just may be worth the work.

On Blogger, should your account accidentally get wiped out there is no way to recover it. The database to recreate those pages is gone even if you publish posts to your own site because it lives on Blogger’s servers and you’ll have to recreate the content manually.

When it comes to administration and customization, WordPress offers a lot more flexibility over Blogger. WordPress supports open source modification of the core files, categories instead of labels, and WordPress plugins for even more features.

Another key advantage of WordPress is the ability to have categories, the same way you have labels in Blogger. This way you can sort your blog posts efficiently and organize them by topic.

Should you consider keeping your blog for the long term, WordPress is a better choice, and since WordPress is hosted on your own account, you regulate your growth and expansion over time. Sure, Blogger is much easier to use, but it’s good to learn how to use WordPress to it’s full potential.

Moving the existing blog to WordPress provides ease of use and near perfect xhtml code quality, plus optional plugins that were easy to install for added functions of social bookmarks, seo automation, and automatic database backup operation. While Blogger is fine, and my choice for a blog platform, WordPress is considered superior especially for site owners without advanced technical skills.

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Blogger to WordPress Blog Conversion for Jackmasterson.com

The previous custom cms website launch for Masterson Construction earlier this month included an announcement that a matching blog was planned and involved performing a Blogger to WordPress blog conversion. The general contractor matching WordPress blog has been converted and launched.

During evaluation of the blog content it was decided to enhance the seo, or search engine optimization, of all the posts going back two years. Post headlines, URLs, and on page content was changed to improve the seo value. To maintain rank value of these aged pages, custom 301 redirects were included in the htaccess file to forward external links pointing to old file names to the new file names created in the redesign. In addition to posts, labels became categories, plus archive file names all required redirects to maintain the existing seo value, as well.

Moving the existing blog to WordPress provides ease of use and near perfect xhtml code quality, plus optional plugins that were easy to install for added functions of social bookmarks, seo automation, and automatic database backup operation. While Blogger is fine, and my choice for a blog platform, WordPress is considered superior especially for site owners without advanced technical skills.

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