EU Cookies Plugin—EU Privacy Directive Compliance For WordPress Websites

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The EU Cookies Plugin helps your WordPress website comply with EU privacy regulations, with NO popups, NO scarey messages, and NO disabling of website functionality.

This plugin won’te lose you website traffic.

For almost all websites, it will be sufficient to install this plugin, check that it applies to what you actually do, and . . . → Read More: EU Cookies Plugin—EU Privacy Directive Compliance For WordPress Websites

How To Create A Sitemap

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Creating a sitemap makes sure that all your website pages are are indexed by search engines. This makes a sitemap a “must have” for SEO, because it helps make your website and content more visible on Google and other search engines, and helps newly published content get indexed rapidly.

I’ll show you how to . . . → Read More: How To Create A Sitemap

SEO For Newbies

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If you want your website to generate business you will need Google to send you visitors. This means that you will need to understand the value of SEO and how to apply it in your business. I don’t mean you need to understand the techniques, I mean that you need to be able . . . → Read More: SEO For Newbies

How To Use Twitter, by Rupert Murdoch (News Corp)

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An article on how to use Twitter by Rupert Murdoch? You shouldn’t be so surprised given what he has to teach us on this subject, and from what I learned when he replied to one of my tweets yesterday.

My ‘pommy’ accent shows that this isn’t really an op-ed by the renowned media mogul, . . . → Read More: How To Use Twitter, by Rupert Murdoch (News Corp)

How To Get Ready For The EU Cookie Directive (Deadline May 25th 2012)

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Your website is probably already in breach of EU law because of regulations that came into force on 25th May 2011, but don’t panic. The new regulations are not yet being enforced, so you still have until 25th May 2012 to comply. This post explains what you need to do.

You will almost certainly . . . → Read More: How To Get Ready For The EU Cookie Directive (Deadline May 25th 2012)

How To Install WordPress Using Softaculous – The Easy Way

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I provide a full WordPress set-up and hosting service, but for those who like to do things themselves there is the option to install WordPress and set it up from scratch yourself. This is not as difficult as you might think, as I will explain.

On most hosting services these days you can use . . . → Read More: How To Install WordPress Using Softaculous – The Easy Way

Google+ versus Diaspora*—Blog Post Interaction Analysis

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This post reports objective data showing that for ordinary users, Diaspora* appears to be more democratic, and certainly a far more interactive community than Google+.

Google+ appears to have become dominated by a small elite of “big guns” (some actually paid by Google). These people have massive followings and hoover up the interaction of . . . → Read More: Google+ versus Diaspora*—Blog Post Interaction Analysis

Can Diaspora* Compete With Facebook And Google+?

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Ilya Zhitomirskiy1989-2011

In this post I’ll explain why I think Diaspora* will outlast Facebook and Google+, even though it may never reach their level of popularity. I’ll explain why Diaspora* does not need to compete with them to be a success, and why I think one or both could well fail and be . . . → Read More: Can Diaspora* Compete With Facebook And Google+?

How To Format Google+ Posts Using Bold Or Italic Text

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A great way to help your posts stand out and at the same time make them easier to read, is to use bold and italic text styles.

A heading in bold makes it easier for someone to spot what your post is about when it arrives in their feed, and using italics for quotations . . . → Read More: How To Format Google+ Posts Using Bold Or Italic Text