This category Blog Advice contains posts with blogging advice that will help you enhance your blog. I will talk about different aspects of blogging in the posts of this category. You will find me mostly talking about WordPress and various blog optimization techniques for WordPress in this category. I hope you will enjoy reading my posts.

Unable to locate WordPress Plugin directory ByetHost error and solution

Posted by Ghatozkat on September 19, 2009

I tried to upgrade WordPress plugins for my blogs hosted at ByetHost but couldn’t do so. SomeUsefulInfo.com is hosted on a paid hosting server of Radix Hosting. However, I host some of my other blogs at ByetHost. When I tried to upgrade the WP plugins, it asked for my FTP username and Password. I put [...]

WordPress blog goes completely blank in IE

Posted by Ghatozkat on April 06, 2009

Yesterday, after I edited some of the theme files of my WordPress blog and uploaded them to my host, although my blog opened fine in Mozilla Firefox, I met with a surprise when I opened my blog in Internet Explorer. My blog was rendered completely blank. It certainly appeared to have happened due to some [...]

Using a location finder WP plugin like Ozh’s IP to Nation or WP-IP2Nation-Installer along with WP Super Cache

Posted by Ghatozkat on March 25, 2009

If you are trying to use a WP plugin that guesses your visitor’s country from his IP address like Ozh’s IP to Nation or WP-IP2Nation-Installer plugin along with the WP Super Cache plugin and you are yet to achieve success serving dynamic content, this blog post is for you.
WP Super Cache caches pages inside the [...]

Use a location finder WordPress plugin to boost lead generation and/or sales

Posted by Ghatozkat on March 19, 2009

If you are an Affiliate Marketer using a WordPress blog and you rely on search engine traffic for your leads and sales, here’s a tweak that will boost your leads and sales.
Mostly, affiliate programs are tied to countries, that is, leads from designated countries fetch you money and others strictly don’t, which means there’s no [...]

Simple Keyword optimization technique for homepage and category pages of a WordPress blog

Posted by Ghatozkat on March 07, 2009

In this post, I am gonna talk about a simple keyword optimization technique for WordPress blogs. This piece of blog advice that I am giving away is easy to implement and is an onsite blog optimization technique. Let’s start off with the basics. If you have a blog and you want people to get to [...]

Add descriptions to category pages in WordPress to inject relevant keywords

Posted by Ghatozkat on January 29, 2009

I optimize my category pages (the pages that show excerpts of all the posts in the category) for certain keywords and I think all bloggers should do the same. Now to optimize the category pages for certain keywords, adding descriptions at the top of the category pages that contain relevant keywords would do some help. [...]

Get WordPress videos on WordPress.tv

Posted by Ghatozkat on January 17, 2009

Are you tired of reading long boring how-to texts about WordPress and wished for a video on the same subject that would have made life easy for you? Someone has listened to your wish at WordPress and turned on www.WordPress.tv. Videos really cut the time and effort required to consume a subject and with [...]

Add meta-keywords to category pages in WordPress

Posted by Ghatozkat on January 02, 2009

Here’s another blog advice for you. If you are using All In One SEO pack plugin and are not able to add meta-keywords to category pages in WordPress, I am gonna teach you how to do that in this post. Some of you might argue that meta-keywords are obsolete things. Yes, it is said [...]

WordPress 2.7 is out, I upgraded from 2.6.5 without a glitch

Posted by Ghatozkat on December 13, 2008

WordPress 2.7 released 2 days back but I didn’t want to blog about it as soon as it was out because I wanted to try it out for myself before writing a post about it. I had 27 plugins installed on WordPress 2.6.5 and hence I was expecting some of them to break and [...]

/%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure leads to duplicate content if not handled properly

Posted by Ghatozkat on November 09, 2008

Shocked?? Yeah, I was too when a friend of mine, Bishal Adhikary told me about this WP bug. Here’s the scenario. If you are using /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure at your WP blog, and let’s say the URL of one of your posts is yourdomainname/some-category-name/post-name. Now, the problem with using /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure is that [...]

Dealing with 404 errors thrown by sub-category pages in WordPress while using /%category%/%postname%/ permalink and disabling the default category base "category"

Posted by Ghatozkat on November 05, 2008

The title of this blog post is really long, ain’t it? But it needed to be that long to explain the scenario correctly. I use /%category%/%postname%/ permalink for my blog posts. At the same time, I have gotten rid of the default category base “category” by using the Top Level Categories plugin. [...]

Simple SEO – Put niche categories of your blog in your blog header within h1 tags

Posted by Ghatozkat on April 15, 2008

You must have gotten the gist of what I am trying to say from the title of this post itself. And the title is exactly what I want to say : “Put niche categories of your blog in your blog header within h1 tags”. By niche categories of your blog, I mean the categories [...]

What is a blog?

Posted by Ghatozkat on February 08, 2008

A blog is a website on which the owner posts entries. An entry can be anything – plain text, pictures, videos etc. Usually the entries are available to the readers in a reverse chronological order, i.e. the latest posts first. Most blogs are written by a single person on a single topic. However this [...]