Have been playing with all 3 of these wordpress themes, and this site currently is built using Thesis. I have recently been building and transforming all of my client builds over to Genesis, and am loving it.
I recently purchased the developer license for Headway, which, don’t get me wrong, is a really cool piece of kit, but I find it really isn’t as good as the Genesis Framework, I just find the customisation alot easier to deal with in Genesis, I am not sure wether it is because I am used to using Hooks on Thesis, so the jump was quite simple in that regard. Thesis, Genesis, Headway…
I have been playing with Blekko for a few days now, and I am loving it, great for SEO analysis and just a generally great search engine which will only get better as their crawl expands. I have 10 Blekko invitations to give away, if you would like one, leave a message on this post (using your email so I can send it).
From what I have seen of Blekko, I can’t wait, well, hopefully, get onto the beta testing list. Blekko looks really cool, with lots of awesome SEO tools which anyone can access, and the slash system combined with the social aspect is simply amazing. If I do manage to get into the program, I will share my experiences. Go check out Blekko
Google Sorry…
We’re sorry…
… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
Man, I hate when this happens, how many times are you seeing this? Sometimes link building can really throw up these silly Google God messages. Yes, when building links, I may throw a few queries at google, but isn’t that what a ’search’ engine is for, I am not even using any automated software of any kind, I am trolling the internet myself, in my time, and yet I still get these stupid messages!! Thank goodness there are personal VPN systems in place so I can get back to doing my job…
Gripe of the day over.
Firstly, I take no responsibility at all if you break your website, do these steps at your own will! I suggest doing this in a local environment, aka, on your local machine!! once you get your theme working with buddypress locally, do what you want with it, again, I take no responsibility! Although it looks long and tedious, I have tried to make this tutorial as readable as possible for everyone. If you find it useful, please link to this article!
Genesis and Buddypress Integration
Not really SEO related, just making note of this for future, if you are having issues with the latest buddypress version and logging out with BP-FBConnect, do a search and replace within your theme, most likely sidebar pages or header:
wp_logout_url( bp_get_root_domain() )
And replace with
wp_logout_url()
Buddypress is cool, has some downfalls, but is a great tool for building a wpmu driven community. Sometimes though, you get unwanted people wanting to create groups and cause a bit of havoc. I always set ‘Create a Group’ to be an admin task only. This is only a quick hack, so take it with a grain of salt. Buddypress Create a Group, make it Admin only…
Is there a -5 google penalty for narrow anchor text in your backlinks? Does anyone have proof this exists. It is silly to target 1 or 2 words in your link profile, especially if you have 500k backlinks, but would this penalty, if it exists, count to brand links? hmmm….
Here is my guide on how to remove the #more tag in wordpress, the link at the bottom of an excerpt that takes you through to the anchor of your article, I prefer a clean link to the full article. You can add this code to your functions.php file and remove it, pretty simple.
function remove_more($link) {
$offset = strpos($link, '#more-');
if ($offset) {
$end = strpos($link, '"',$offset);
}
if ($end) {
$link = substr_replace($link, '', $offset, $end-$offset);
}
return $link;
}
add_filter('the_content_more_link', 'remove_more');
SMX Sydney 2010, done and dusted… the conference is wrapping up and I will soon be jet setting home to New Zealand. I managed to learn a few things at SMX this year, and having not been to a conference in some time, I was slightly disappointed with parts of this conference.
I followed mostly the ‘Advanced’ track hoping to get some hot tidbits and insider info that you would expect to get with the price of admission, but sadly, as usual, there wasn’t alot of dirt being dished up by this years speakers. SMX Sydney 2010
