The following plugins can help you enable dofollow attribute. Some of them allow you to manually turn it on or off. If this is what you want to do, then check them out through this link: DoFollow Plugins

For me, I prefer to make my self-hosted WordPress blog dofollow without a plugin because too many plugins will slow down my blog. Speed matters nowadays. If you like to change nofollow attribute to be dofollow attribute without a plugin, then these steps will help:

• Sign in your hosting cPanel or use FTP as I do
• Access this file through File Manager in cPanel
• It should lead you to public_html/
• Then locate this file as  /wp-includes/comment-template.php
• Before you make any changes to comment-template.php, save a backup of it first
• Next hold Ctrl and hit F at the same time to bring up a search bar.
• Copy and paste the following code in the search box to find it:
  

  $return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>$author</a>";

  Change the above code to be the follow code:

  $return = "<a href='$url' rel='external' class='url'>$author</a>";

  You can see the differences in red.

• Last make sure you save your file

That is it. If you want to know whether it works or not, Checking Whether A Blog is Dofollow or Nofollow can help. Or you can use a tool called SEO Toolbar to find out instantly.

Would you like to change your nofollow blog to be dofollow blog? Tell us why or why not in our comment section.

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For 301 redirect management, there is a plugin called Oddly Enough. It will also log and track all your accumulated 404 Errors, so that is very cool to have. This plugin will help you with your site functionality without having to worry about pesky 404 errors and etc. It is very easy, just make your setting to execute a 301 redirect to any URL destination should your visitor get a 404 error. Having 404 errors makes you look smacked unprofessional, and that is not a good thing. With this plugin you don’t have to worry about all of these anymore.

If your site use a lot of images, then SEO Friendly Images is for you. On-page SEO for various items, including your text of course, is an important part of the optimization process. Were you aware that you can optimize the images on your site? SEO Friendly Images will speed-up your image SEO by assigning proper image alt tags and the title tags. This handy little plugin will sense if your image tags are not in place, then it will alert you and you can tell it what to use. Great way to save time if you use a lot of images.

You can optimize your links for the search engines with SEO Smart Links. It will optimize your site links so the search engines will recognize the keywords or phrases you want your site to be indexed and ranked for. The way it works is SEO Smart Links will find those words in your site, then it will create links to other pages that have the same words on them. You can set it up to link to individual pages, posts, categories or even other tagged words.

Millions of bloggers and marketers have discovered how powerful and versatile this platform really is. Internet marketers are constantly discovering the versatility of this platform in their IM businesses. Perhaps there are those who believe WordPress is just for the casual blogger. This is absolutely not true! You can use this for any type of site and for any purpose. Moreover using all of the plugins that are available, you can make it do whatever you want.

Best Word Plugins is a new kind of WordPress plug-ins tools that worth the try. For more info on it, please read on Best Word Plugins.

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I recently found a very useful RSS plugin that will allow you to monetize your blog with it. It will permit you to place  RSS feeds below each of your articles. With it you can now promote eBay’s products, ClickBank products, and any other affiliate products that allow you to generate RSS feeds with. I am so excited that I want to share this great tool with you.

This simple RSS plugin is called FirstRSS. Download it from its owner’s website. Did I mention that it is Free? After that unzip that file and upload it to your blog’s directory like this: /public_html/wp-content/plugins/. (assuming that you are using self-hosted WordPress blog too).

One drawback that I found out so far is you can only be allowed to show its default feeds which is 10. I don’t know about you but I think 10 feeds for an article is too many. I want to show less than 5 feeds or at most 5 feeds. Here is the solution for that:

• Log in to your WordPress admin erea.

• Click on Plugins/FirstRSS/Edit.

• Before you attempt to make any changes, make sure you save a copy of it.

• Find the following codes in firstRSS.php:
  

  foreach($rss->items as $item) { $title = $item[title]; $link = htmlentities($item[link]); $desc = $item[description]; if ($title != '') $disp .= "\t<b><a href='$link'>$title</a></b>\n<br />"; if ($desc  != '') $disp .= "\t$desc\n<br />"; }

• And replace them with the codes below:
  

  $i=0; foreach($rss->items as $item) { if($i < 5) { $title = $item[title]; $link = htmlentities($item[link]); $desc = $item[description]; if ($title != '') $disp .= "\t<b><a href='$link'>$title</a></b>\n<br />"; if ($desc != '') $disp .= "\t$desc\n<br />"; } $i++; }

This will allow you to control how many RSS feeds you’ve preferred. I like to display [rsspara:URL] instead of [rsslist:URL] below my post because [rsspara:URL] will allow me to show not only links but images and descriptions of the products as well. Make sure you get a RSS url from any affiliate site you’ve participated and replace the URL with the feed’s url that you’ve got. If you’ve done it right, you will see an example just like the one below.

Another drawback is that it shows what category and keywords with a logo in its feeds. I don’t like that. I am still searching an answer for it. I’ll keep you posted once I find the solution.

Update: The solution for the above question is shown below. You need to find the following three $disp code lines and comment them out. Make sure you save the file:

Now go ahead to test it out. Does it work? Mine is working. See the example below.

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WordPress 2.7 has a completely new look of its dashboard. It allows its users to arrange new modules by dragging and dropping them around.  It also provides new features such as  QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments inside the dashboard. Moreover, it built in the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click only.

On the upper side corner there is a new feature named “Screen Options” which allow you to check or uncheck the choices of the modules to be shown in the dashboard. The most excited news about WordPress 2.7 is that it built in the ability to allow you to automatically upgrade your future WordPress version with a single click.

Although some people don’t like the new dashboard of WordPress 2.7, I don’t mind to have that. I can understand why some people are not easy to accept new ideas, new looks, new technologies, and etc. For me I am ready. So this is the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. If you are readdy, here we go:

• Check to see your host is compatible with WordPress 2.7.

• Check to find out your plugins are compatible with WordPress 2.7.

• Check to be sure your theme is compatible with WordPress 2.7.

• If everything works fine for you, then you can download WordPress 2.7 here.

• Deactivate all your plugins before you proceed.

• You can use WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin to upgrade to WordPress 2.7 in about two minutes (after that say bye-bye to this plugin because you don’t need it any more). If you like to manually upgrade your existing WordPress version to WordPress 2.7, just follow along.

• Back up all your WordPress files to your laptop/PC.  You may use FTP to get the job done.

• Back up your database. If you don’t know how, follow these instructions here.

• You should double check to make sure that your backups are usable.

• Delete the old WordPress files except the following files:
  • wp-config.php file
  • wp-content folder
  • wp-images folder (only older installations from 1.5.x days will have this folder)
  • wp-includes/languages/folder; if you are using a language file, and it is here rather than in wp-content/languages/, do not delete this folder (you might want to move your language files to wp-content/languages/ for easier upgrading in the future)
  • .htaccessfile (if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it)
  • Custom Content and/or Plugins (if you have any images or other custom content or Plugins inside the wp-content folder, do not delete them).

• You may use FTP to upload your unzipped WordPress 2.7 files to your WordPress directory.

• In your web browser, type http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/ and hit enter. It will guide you whether you need to upgrade your database or not. It turns out that I needed to upgrade my database this time. (Make sure you replace yoursitename wiith your own domain name.)

• The final step is to reactivate all your plugins in the dashboard of your WordPress 2.7.

Now go ahead. Get familiar with the new features in WordPress 2.7 and enjoy!

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• First you have to find out whether you meet the minimum requirement. You can find the answer from you host account.

• Next you can get WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin to upgrade to WordPress 2.6.5 in about two minutes. For me I prefer to manually upgrade my WordPress blog.

• Next back up your database. If you don’t know how, these instructions will show you how.

• Then back up all your WordPress files to your laptop/PC.  I prefer using FTP.

• It is very important that you double check your backups to see whether they are usable.

• Next deactivate all your plugins since they may cause problems.

• Now go to download WordPress 2.6.5 to your laptop/PC.

• Delete the old WordPress files except the following files:
  • wp-config.php file
  • wp-content folder
  • wp-images folder (only older installations from 1.5.x days will have this folder)
  • wp-includes/languages/folder; if you are using a language file, and it is here rather than in wp-content/languages/, do not delete this folder (you might want to move your language files to wp-content/languages/ for easier upgrading in the future)
  • .htaccess file (if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it)
  • Custom Content and/or Plugins (if you have any images or other custom content or Plugins inside the wp-content folder, do not delete them).

• Upload your unzipped WordPress 2.6.5 files to your WordPress directory.

• Type http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/ in your web browser and hit enter. It will direct you whether you need to upgrade your database or not. Make sure you replace yoursitename with your own domain name.

• Now head to reactivate your plugins and enjoy your WordPress 2.6.5 dashboard.

See it is not hard. Let me know if you run into any issues.

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• First I used FTP to back up my old WordPress blog files to my laptop.

• Second I upgraded my old WordPress 2.6.1 to be the newest version WordPress 2.6.5.

• Third I logged in to my host’s cPanel/phpMyAdmin to export my old WordPress blog’s database to my laptop. See WordPress Backup with phpMyAdmin here.

• Next I created a new folder named wp for the new domain. I then created a robots.txt in wp folder with the following contents:
  

  User-agent: * Disallow: /

  This is to prevent any search engines to crawl my site before it is ready.

• Next I created a new database in my host cPanel for this new domain. See WordPress Tutorial: Setting Up A MySQL Database With cPanel here.

• Next I typed the url of my website in my browse to run the install and input the information I’v got from the last step to finish the installation.

• Then I edited wp-config.php file which should be in your root directory and changed the high-lighted parts with the information I’ve got earlier.

define('DB_NAME', 'databasename'); // Change the high-lighted part to be your database name define('DB_USER', 'mysqlusername'); // Change the high-lighted part to be your MySQL username define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mysqlpassword'); // Change the high-lighted part to be your password define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value.

• Next I used FTP to upload all my old WordPress blog’s files to public_html/wp folder.

• Then I imported my old database to replace the new one I’ve created eariler. (if your database name, mysql username, and mysql password are the same as the old one, then you don’t need to do anything otherwise you have to change them before you can import it.)

• Then I logged in to my WordPress admin area and used Search and Replace plugin to search all my old WordPress urls in database to be replaced with my new urls.

• Then I double checked my website to see whether everything was working properly. After that I deleted the robots.txt file.

• Finally I added the following line in my old blog’s .htaccess file right after RewriteEngine On, see below
  

  RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

You must change yourdomainname to be your actual domain name. Adding this line in my old blog’s .htaccess will ensure that all my old blog’s traffic will be redirected to my new blog with every single post I’ve created.

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For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.” You may also want to find out the full list of over 60 fixes to see what WordPress 2.6.1 has to offer.

I just upgraded my existing WordPress version to WordPress 2.6.1 a moment ago. Everything went smoothly. If you are ready to upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1, then you may find the following steps useful:

• First of all you need to check whether you meet the minimum requirement. You can use the following code to check your minimum requirement.
  

  <?phpinfo();?>

  Here is what you need to do: Save the above code in a file as checkphpNmysql.php or any name you want. Then upload that file to your public_html directory, and run it as http://www.yoursitename.com/checkphpNmysql.php in your browser to find out your PHP version and MySQL version right away. Make sure you replace yoursitename with your own domain name.

• If you fulfill the minimum requirement, then you have two choices: (1) You can get WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin to upgrade for you in about two minutes. I’ve never tried it before so you are taking that choice on your own risk. (2) Alternatively you may upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1 manually.

• Next back up your database. Follow These instructions if you don’t know how.

• Use any FTP to back up ALL of your files in your WordPress directory to your PC (personal computer).

• Check your backups to see they are usable.

• Make sure you deactivate All your plugins.

• Download and unzip WordPress 2.6.1 here to your PC.

• Delete the old WordPress files except the following files:
  • wp-config.php file
  • wp-content folder
  • wp-images folder (only older installations from 1.5.x days will have this folder)
  • wp-includes/languages/folder; if you are using a language file, and it is here rather than in wp-content/languages/, do not delete this folder (you might want to move your language files to wp-content/languages/ for easier upgrading in the future)
  • .htaccess file (if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it)
  • Custom Content and/or Plugins (if you have any images or other custom content or Plugins inside the wp-content folder, do not delete them).

• Upload your unzipped wordpress-2.6.1 files to your WordPress directory.

• Run http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/ as your normal login. From there it will direct you whether you need to upgrade your database or not. Make sure you replace yoursitename with your own domain name.

• If your WordPress is resided in a subdirectory called blog, then you need to run it as http://www.yoursitename.com/blog/wp-admin/ or http://www.blog/yoursitename.com/wp-admin/ depending on how you set up your blog.

• The last step is to make sure you reactivate those plugins that you deactivated earlier.

Did you see your new WordPress 2.6.1 interface? How do you like about it?

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Even though they do not know your email address, they can still send you an email. That is because a contact form will allow you to hide your email address in it. If a blog/website has multiple blogging authors, some contact forms will allow you to set up to contact only a specific author. So this is a very neat feature since you do not want to send an email to every author on that site.

Getting a contact form is never being easier with WordPress because you can just pick any plugin to use. Before You download PHP Contact Form v.2.0WP, make sure you check out its authors’ websites: WordPress-Ready Contact Form v.2.0WP and Secure and accessible PHP contact form for WORDPRESS. They provided detail information of what features it includes, how to install it, and what WordPress themes it supports. The following are the WordPress themes it supports so far:

Default by Michael Heilemann

The default WordPress theme based on the famous Kubrick. Included with WordPress.

Classic by Dave Shea

The original WordPress theme that graced versions 1.2.x and prior. Also included

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BeastBlog v.2.0 by Mike Cherim

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Almost Spring by Becca Wei

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Blix by Sebastian Schmieg

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Green Marinee by Ian Main

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Ocadia by Becca Wei

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Pool by Borja Fernandez

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SeaBeast by Mike Cherim

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I just installed this contact form a moment ago. Check it out in my “Contact Us” page. I’ll add update to this post and let you know how things turn out to be.

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• Automatically optimize your blog/website’s title for search engines.

• Generate your meta description automatically.

• Edit you own keywords.

• Avoid duplicate contents found on your WordPress blog.

• And more…

It is currently compatible with WordPress 2.5.1. The sad thing is it will no longer to be updated or supported by its original author in the near future; but the good thing is it found its new home – read All In One SEO Pack Finds New Developer to find out more.

I just installed it and loved it. If you are interested, download All In One SEO Pack here.

• Unzip the all-in-one-seo-pack.zip file you’ve download.

• Use FTP to upload the file to this folder /public_html/wp-content/plugins/.

• Login to your WordPress Dashboard; click on Plugins to activate it.

• Now configurate it by clicking on Options/All in One SEO (for WordPress 2.3.x) or Settings/All in One SEO (for WordPress 2.5.x); see how it is done from here.

Some themes may not show the meta tag. That is because those themes may miss the appropriate call to wp_call() usually found in head.php. You can fix this by logging in to your WordPress Dashboard, clicking on Design/Theme Editor/head.php file. Insert <?php wp_head(); ?> right above </head> and save your head.php file.

One more thing, once you use this All in One SEO Pack, there is no need to use other plugins such as Head Meta Description and SEO Title Tag. Otherwise you’ll produce duplicate title and description for your blog/website.

That is it. Once you set it up, It will automatically optimize your WordPress blog/website for search engines.

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Bloggers who use a full version of WordPress blog (WordPress.org blog) now can use the same feature to track their blog/website. Since this feature is hosted within WordPress.com‘s server, your blog will not be affected much in terms of speed. So this is the biggest advantage if you use this Stats Plugin. Here are some screenshots I took from My Internet Stuff – a WordPress.com blog:

• Shows your blog’s days, weeks, or months statistics.

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• Shows you where the referrers come from and what are your top posts and pages people have visited.

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• Shows you what keywords or phrases people have used to find your blog & what links people have clicked in your blog.

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• Shows the overall stats about your blog, incoming links to your blog, amounts of spams being caught, and etc.

Click the above picture to enlarge

For a full version of WordPress blog, you can download

• a Stats Plugin here to your PC (personal computer).

• Unzipped the file that you’ve just downloaded,

• then uploaded it to this folder /public_html/wp-content/plugins or /public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins depends on how you set up your blog/website.

• Login to your WordPress Dashboard, click on Plugins, and find WordPress.com Stats to activate it.

• You’ll need your API Key to use it.

The only drawback I found so far is that once you login to your WordPress Dashboard, you’ll need to login to your WordPress.com account to use this feature.

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