Francesco Castaldo

I’m pretty sure no one did notice it, but a couple of weeks ago I developed a test widget that plays with the current Twitter location feature combined with the visitor ip location. It’s in the lower right corner, called Tweets near you :)

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It’s not that I am completely disappeared, it’s just that last week I shot a few bands (No Conventional Sound, The Rasmus, Children of Bodom, Cannibal Corpse and Negrita) and then spent the remaining free time improving my plugins.
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If you are a text ads publisher, you should know that the most monetizing position is the one integrated in the page content. That’s why, with a very few lines of code, I implemented the <–banner–> tag.
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How to let search engines know which are all the pages of your site? How often are they updated? Is the page indexed and cached by the search engine up to date with the current online version or should the spider re-index it? Since a couple of years, the answer to these questions is: with XML sitemaps.
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Now that our theme is clean and valid and that we know what happens on our blog (advanced statistics), we can push things far forward by installing one of the best plugins for search engine optimization: All in One SEO pack.
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Aren’t you curious about how many users subscribe to your rss feed? How many of them click in their rss readers and visit your blog? How often? Which topics they click most? Well I am :-)
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Is your wordpress theme seo friendly? Good, the next step on the roadmap is installing a couple of plugins that help you tracking what is happening on your blog.
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The first thing I am going to do to optimize my WordPress blog in search engines‘ results is choosing the right theme and customizing it a little bit.
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I love WordPress and I’ve been a WP fan for years. That’s why, as soon as I decided I wanted my blog, I signed up on wordpress.com and started blogging. I bought 10 credits and associated my domain to the account, but knew it couldn’t last :-)
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