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Basic SEO with Categories, Tags and Keywords in WordPress

September 1, 2010 by Ken Dawes 14 Comments

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is certainly the elephant in the room these days. And there is much conflicting information as to what you should do to have your website to be highly ranked in search engines like Google, etc. You know how the Real Estate mantra is “Location, Location, Location“? Well, when it comes to coming up in search engine results, it’s “Content, Content, Content“. If you have well written content about what ever your subject is, you have done 80-90% of your SEO basics. [Read more…] about Basic SEO with Categories, Tags and Keywords in WordPress

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WordPress 101 – Permalinks

June 16, 2009 by Ken Dawes Leave a Comment

So what the heck is a Permalink and why do I care?

Until fairly recently, when you looked at the top of your browser, where you can type in the URLs of sites you want to visit, what you saw up there likely made sense. If you were on the site’s “About” page, at the end of the URL you probably saw … /about.html. If you were on the “Contact” page it said /contact.html. Made sense, didn’t it?

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The Web Mechanic’s WordPress 101

May 26, 2009 by Ken Dawes Leave a Comment

Ok… You have decided to use WordPress for your website/blog, now what the heck do you do?

WordPress.orgThe Web Mechanic’s WordPress 101 will be a series of articles on setting up and using WordPress. I plan to write these articles on individual topics and will try to make them as “user-friendly” as I can. If something seems confusing or not explained clearly enough for you, please submit a comment and I’ll try to clarify things.

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WordPress 101 – I have WordPress installed… Now what?

May 10, 2009 by Ken Dawes 2 Comments

When WordPress is installed, it has a number of items that are set up generically. In this lesson I’ll go through some of the items you should take care of. Basic Housekeeping, as it were.

When your WordPress was installed you may or may not (depends on your webhost) have been prompted to supply a user name and password. WP will automatically give you a username of “admin” and a complex password if you are not asked to supply them. You should enter your own easy to remember username and password if requested.

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What size should your website be?

December 28, 2008 by Ken Dawes Leave a Comment

Computers and the web have certainly progressed visually over the years.

Times have changed!

A comparison of monitor resolutions

When the web began, most users had a monitor that had maybe a 13″ diagonal and showed a screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. (What’s a pixel? It’s basically how many dots go across your screen from left to right and top to bottom) [Read more…] about What size should your website be?

Filed Under: WordPress Tutorial Tagged With: liquid layout, monitor, monitor size, resolution, website

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Ken Dawes of The Web Mechanic made complicated changes to my Wordpress site easy by finding the exact plugins, creating the code, and tutoring me on how to modify my page hierarchy in clear terms that even a novice such as myself could understand. He’s a life saver. Alice Shapiro - Poet's Tongue
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Ken was a fantastic resource to me in helping convert my website design and content into WordPress in order to allow greater flexibility. He also was very helpful in helping me understand the steps for starting and maintaining a blog as well as other neat things, using widgets that act as plug-ins for WordPress …whenever I have a question, I know he’s there to help me figure it out! Jen Berkley
Ken and Casey Dawes successfully migrated our website to WordPress and made it much easier for the less initiated to maintain and made it look exactly the same as the old site. Well done! Rev. Steve Ellis St. John Episcopal Church Rev. Steve Ellis St. John Episcopal Church

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