Tag Archives: Google

Google + WordPress, The Matt Cutts Point of View

Matt Cutts is a Software Engineer who heads the web spam team at Google. Matt has been using WordPress for years and feels WordPress makes search engine optimization easier and easier with each update. On today’s show he highlights the … Continue reading

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Diving deeply into Google Analytics with Justin Cutroni

Let me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analyics account open and in front of you. Justin Cutroni, this weeks guest, is an asbolute expert on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in … Continue reading

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The Secret Sauce, Pete Cashmore Explains How to be Mashable

Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of one of the world’s most popular blogs – Mashable.com, which happens to be powered by WordPress! Since 2005 Mashable has been a leader in social media and technology news coverage in addition to … Continue reading

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Google Webmaster Tools Inside Out

Joost and Frederick discussed Google’s Webmaster Tools with this weeks guest John Mueller from Google. All the sections of Google Webmaster Tools were discussed, and their different uses for bloggers, from the new search queries and ranking overview to sitelinks, crawl errors, XML Sitemaps and the recently updated Google News Sitemaps (there’s actually a WordPress plugin for those).

In the news this week: several upcoming WordCamps, as well as the fact that WordPress 3.0 beta 2 was released.

In the plugin picks, at the tail end of the show, Frederick picked IntenseDebate, a very cool comment system by Automattic. Joost picked clean notifications, a plugin to clean up the comment and ping / trackback notification emails.

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Episode 9: Problems with WordPress 2.0.5, a review of Akismet, Bad Behavior 2 and Spam Karma 2, and more…

Episode 9 of The WordPress Podcast covers WordPress 2.0.5 causing a 500-Internal Server Error for some users, WordPress MU 1.0 has been released and bbPress 0.72 has been reintroduced, Google now provides custom searchs for your blogs, the WP-Websnapr plug-in, Sara Cormeny provides a tutorial on how to restyle the WordPress log-in page to rebrand it and Mark Jaquith reviews and compares the three leading anti-comment spam plug-ins, Akismet, Bad Behavior 2 and Spam Karma 2.

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