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“Is it true that your niche can be your best keyword?”
November 11 at 2:01 pm - Link
Could you expand on that Frank? - Marysia
That's my understanding of it Frank. Actually other way around. Best keyword can be a niche. - Russ
Your best keyword should be your niche as the keyword phrase comes first .... if you are interested in a niche but can not find the right keyword phrase then you need to move on - Mark South
Probably... Just depends on the niche. You wouldn't use automobiles as your main keyword for a niche... You would use cars. So be wise with this. - Luke Martin via twhirl
I want to drive traffic to an online store that sells ebooks on online marketing. - Frank Donnelly
There are two ways to go about it. One, which I consider a bad option, is just to lead your traffic to your eStore home page. The other one, which might work a lot better, is to point your traffic to an specific product within your eStore. Consider it as selling your products instead of the affiliate product. You can do the rest of the 30dc the same way - Jorge Blanco
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October 10 at 9:26 pm - Link
There is no charge for awesomeness! - Luke Martin
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InterfaceLIFT Wallpaper: Awesomeness
October 10 at 7:40 pm - via Reshare - Link
Hehehe... I'm might make one that says... THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR AWESOMENESS! - Luke Martin
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I liked Age Of Empires II
October 9 at 11:46 pm - Link
یه ایل رو جمع میکردیم مینداختیم به جون فیل بدبدخت :)) - امین
Okay - Luke Martin
plus Empire Earth II - Amin Sabeti
اوق استزاتژیک - Hasan
هوار هوار تا لایک برای استراتژیک مخصوصن برای پرشن با اون فیل های به درد نخورش :دی - Papak
وار کرافت هم دوست دارم - neda.2
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WordPress: john conroy posted a link
July 8 at 8:35 am - via Reshare - Link
good thread here - john conroy
It depends what you want to do - how much PHP and CSS do you know? How customizable do you want it? Is it for a company or for a personal blog? WordPress is a great way to go, but you just need to know what you want to do with your blog. For both beginners and those who want control, WordPress is often a good choice - Ben Parr
Yes, if you want to take care yourself of hosting and desing (you can easly just pick a premade template). Not if you don't even know how to do an FTP. Have you considered the hosted Wordpress.com ? Give it a try before getting in a self hosted Wordpress script. - Fabrice Epelboin
Personally, I would also start with a wordpress.com blog, just so you get the feel of it. If you like it, get your own site! - J.T Dabbagian
WordPress is the best. It does not take any more work, but it is much cleaner than other formats. - Ethan Jaynes
Heck YES! - Luke Martin
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WordPress: Andy Roberts posted a link
Wordpress Direct » Auto WordPress Installer
August 7 at 4:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Create SEO-Optimized, Content-Stuffed Websites Instantly With WordPressDirect" - Andy Roberts via Bookmarklet
I just wondered how the room feels about this kind of use of WordPress. - Andy Roberts
Wow. Insta-splog. Fail. - Kevin Barrow
Ed Dale from the #30DC (30 day challenge) made this. It also has auto content finding... It's probes search the net for posts for you. - Luke Martin
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WordPress: Shey posted a message
“Best WP magazine theme? (Free or Premium)”
September 26 at 2:00 pm - Link
I pretty much like Unstandard and The Morning After. Free and highly customizable with the right skills. - Alex Cristache
The Morning After is pretty good. Try here for a list of the best ones... http://www.bestwpthemes.com/#m... - Luke Martin
This is a customization of The Morning After: http://www.admmagazine.it/ - Danilo P.
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mashable posted an entry on Mashable!
September 20 at 11:43 am - Link
I'm a little disappointed. I had thought that this would be a way to let your kids network safely. I have an 11 year old that would LOVE to do stuff with other kids online but he can't sign up for anything until he's 13 (and I understand and agree with the reasons). He feels left out of things when he sees me and Tad having such a good time with our friends online, not to mention he doesn't have a lot in common with his meatspace friends because of his niche interests. It would be awesome to have a safe way for him to meet other geeky kids online. Too bad that's not with this is for. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay, Glubble for Families offers many ways for parents to support their child to discover the web and social networking. One feature for the child is that we provide him a safe and fun Kids Page where he can chat with family members. By letting him do that he can learn about social networking without the danger of getting into contact with strangers. In a later stage we might open this up a little (for example to other families or friends), but a parent would still be in charge and need to approve that. - Alexander van Elsas
Thanks, Alexander. My son already has our family members (those who actually get on line occasionally) on IM. What I'm looking for for him is some way to interact with other kids, of course with our approval. It could start by approving other families we know (like his friends at school), but again, he's into stuff most local kids his age aren't, but I know there are other kids out there who are. Would be nice if he could connect with like minds on the net just like we older folks do. - Lindsay Donaghe
It sucks it's so easy to pretend to be a kid (or an adult, for that matter). Really makes projects like what you want difficult. :( - abacab
Yeah, I know abacab. But parent approval for the interaction might be doable... I guess it would be more complicated with "strangers" though. Poor kid.. I just know there are other kids out there that he'd have a blast with... but he'll just have to wait. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay and abacab. It would probably work like in real life. You might let your child play with a friend he knows from school. But before you do that you want to get to know that friend's parents too. It's the best you can do to let your child have some freedom and at the same time know he is safe. - Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: It should work like that, but the anonymity online, among other factors, makes it a lot more iffy, imo. I'm much less concerned with my kids interacting with kids I've actually physically met (for better or worse). - abacab
Abacab, agreed. That is why we start with families. As a parent you can later extend this a little, but our advise would be to do that with people you know and trust. - Alexander van Elsas
Certainly, and I think you've got a great first step going already. :) - abacab
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September 21 at 7:52 am - Link
Depression in Parents. - Luke Martin
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September 18 at 4:12 pm - Link
Find out how to make your site into a 3d secondlife. - Luke Martin
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September 16 at 3:10 am - Link
"Nice news, mate. Looking forward to the release of Windows 7 and the Service Packs for it." - Luke Martin
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Thirty Day Challenge: Luke Martin posted a message
“Why is there always problems with Stumble Upon? I created an account and I haven't been able to use it since I have made it (that's a record 2 months, people).”
September 11 at 9:40 pm - Link
I had a problem with stumbleupon after I only submitted my own site. Once I started jumping around the web and submitting everything it turned back on. - Bob Perry
I have never had an issue with StumbleUpon and I've been on it since last year's challenge and it moved with me to Flock - buttons and all. If you're having button issues, reload. If you're having issues at their site, create a new account and start fresh. - Stacy Nelson
The problem is that I tried recreating an account, moving to a different browser (twice). And I have tried putting Stumblr back in twice. THIS IS ANNOyING! - Luke Martin via twhirl
Luke, you may have to stumble some sites for a while. That's what I am doing... - Greg Martin
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Thirty Day Challenge: Rita posted a link
September 11 at 12:25 am - via Reshare - Link
Unfortunately, they say nothing about themes being SEO-optimized. - Rita
If you have the SEO plugin installed, you optimize it yourself for each post/page you create. - Traci Knoppe
Thanks. I'll check out the plugin. - Rita
Nice, I added them to my Favorites - Luke Martin via twhirl
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September 10 at 8:08 pm - Link
Blog like an expert with these two classic tools! - Luke Martin
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“whats the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress direct and can you advertise and promote your website?”
September 5 at 12:14 pm - Link
wordpress.org is a support community for the software that WPD will install on your site; wordpress.com is a place that will host your blog for you, but you're limited by what they'll allow you to do, since it's their site. WPDirect will optimize and install the software for you, on their host or own site, and then you can do anything you want, but they didn't originally write it; it came from wordpress.org. Have I thoroughly confused you yet? 8-) - LJF Wolffe
So would using wordpress direct be as effective as using wordpress.org and advertising is definitely ok, as wordpress.com banned me for self promotion. - Frank Donnelly
You got it! Whether WPD is on their free site or your own hosted site, you can do anything you want with it -- it's meant for self-promotion! - LJF Wolffe
My understanding is that WPD has cobbled together the main services you would need to create a WP site: hosting, templates, plug-ins, etc. Some plug-ins seem available at wordpress.org. Others I've been unable to find and may be written by the WPD team. I joined at the Silver Level for $1 for 30 days to evaluate whether their service cannot be replicated just using WP. - Patrick - Patrick Silverwise
What I've heard is that GuruBob put his head together with the WPD development team to create a software product that would provide a fully search engine optimized site that one could automate to post content. It is really great for a guy like me, commercial fisherman, truck driver. I never did anything like blogs on the Internet. Now I have three up and running. - Roy Gould
Wordpress is the actual program. Wordpress Direct is the modified version by Ed_Dale. Direct installs wordpress and helps you with marketing (it has all the plugins you should need for this). While Wordpress is just the program. - Luke Martin via twhirl
You can use WordPress instead of WPD, but you need to find a Search Engine optimized and widgitized theme,iInstall it (In addition to installing WP). Then, you need to install all required plugins and make it all work :) - Rita
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August 18 at 6:41 pm - Link
Find out what your site is worth along with other interesting facts, just here. - Luke Martin
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August 14 at 9:51 pm - Link
How to submit your blog posts to over 45 different social bookmarking services in 15 minutes. - Luke Martin
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August 13 at 3:06 pm - Link
"That's right." - Luke Martin
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Thirty Day Challenge: Lene posted a message
“Could anyone please do me a favor and check what plugins wp direct installs in the /wp-content/plugins/ folder”
August 13 at 1:12 am - Link
if you search on the #30DC forum you will find several lists from other people - Rob Wilson via Alert Thingy
Thanks a lot - Lene
I wonder... - Luke Martin
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August 13 at 1:41 am - Link
5 of the must have recources for any web designer out there. - Luke Martin
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August 12 at 3:01 am - Link
A video of all the awesome people at the 30 day challenge brisbane meetup. - Luke Martin
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August 12 at 2:53 am - Link
A great, widget-ready wordpress theme that is so easy to use. - Luke Martin
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Nathan Ridley published a video on Vimeo
How to convert text to an editable shape using Photoshop CS3
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July 19 at 4:48 pm - Link
Shame that you are not using freeware such as Gimp would be great to have forum such as this on how to without forking out for Photoshop - Russell James
I think it is more of a shame that The Gimp is such a flaming pile of horse dung. It does have a lot of functionality under the hood, but as is typical with so many other open source (especially linux apps) applications, the user interface is just a horrible hairy mess. That said, there are more than enough beginner Photoshop users out there to support my site nicely. - Nathan Ridley via twhirl
I just use Filter>Blur>Guassian Blur with 0.1 px blur. - Luke Martin
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Team IMA: Annie Oliveri posted a message
“Welcome fello 30DCer's feel free to share here. I have left the setting to public for now. Should I change the setting? Annie”
July 31 at 4:43 pm - Link
Hi Annie, thanks for the welcome - Tim
I dont think we need to change it annie - Greg Martin
Ah It's fine! - Luke Martin
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Thirty Day Challenge: Greg Martin posted a message
“This is cool for organising FriendFeed better http://www.flickr.com/photos/o...
July 30 at 11:48 am - Link
Yep, nice changes. For anyone interested you need to click on both links separately at the bottom of Greg's photo. The first is to download the plugin, and the second allows you to add the style shown to Stylish by clicking on the button 'Add to Stylish'. The change is then made automatically for you in Flock on the FriendFeed site. Any comments you make are highlighted with a light blue background, a line is added between posts, and your own 'Shares' are shown in blue text. - Mark McGimpsey
Have you seen my version? Been using some code already made by others combined with some of my own. What do you think? Will publish it soon... http://www.flickr.com/photos/x... - Mauro Santos
I actually like Mauro's better and will wait for it - Ken Nadreau
Yeh I actually preferred yours but I couldn't find it. Please let me know when it's ready. - Greg Martin
Mauro's is better... Please send me it when you are finished. - Luke Martin
Yep, very nice Mauro. - Mark McGimpsey
It's finished. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/6ny68e! - Mauro Santos
Mauro, this really is nice. Its sooooo simple to install! Thanks! I gave you a stumble and a Digg :) - Graeme
Thank you Mauro. I've now changed over to your design as well. - Mark McGimpsey
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webdevelopers: Paul Grav posted a link
July 23 at 4:40 am - via Reshare - Link
I can't believe that it is even popular anywhere in the world. It looks like a pile of garbage. They mention on their site "Perfect pages with the Industry-Standard Trident Engine". I guess perfection is Windows only then? I'm not sure that 'Perfect' is the correct word to use when describing the Trident rendering engine. - Paul Grav
i agree. looks like mud. why would they even cover something like this. - Travis Cooper
Ha IE looks better than that. - Luke Martin
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