I have finally updated my blog to the most recent version of WordPress: 2.6.3. Lots of spammers have been hacking WordPress blogs recently. If you run a WordPress blog make sure you do it as soon as possible if you don’t want to go through the hustle of getting it hacked.

I have also added a plugin that upgrades your Blog automatically. WPAU helps you easily upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest version, without having to download or upload any files. You can find the plugin at:

WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

Take the time to do it, it will only take you a few minutes.

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Best Free Pdf Guides at SEO Practices Blog: SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Blogs, etc.

On this post you will find a list of links to the best Free PDF guides we have found about Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing, Social Media Optimization and Marketing, Landing Page Optimization, SEO for Blogs, PPC, Google Adsense, E-Mail, and Keyword Research; for those of you interested in learning the basics and more advanced aspects of SEO/SEM.

This is a list of 14 free PDF guides we have found and posted from renown SEO and SEM Sites like: Google, Marketo, PluraPage, and experts like: Dan Thies, Aaron Wall, Michelle McPherson, John Chow, Andy Beal, etc.

These are the links to the articles where you can find each of the PDF Guides:
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SEO Guides:
Search Engine Myths Exposed by Jonathan Leger —> NEW!
SEO Fast Start by Dan Thies
Are you Blogging Yet – An SEO Guide for Blogs by Benu Aggarwal
Conversion Rates Best Practices from Omniture.com
Marketing Pilgrim 68 Essays on Improving Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Advertising, and Social Media Optimization

Social Media Optimization and Marketing Guides:
Beginner’s Guide to Social Media from ICrossing.com
Social Media: Step by Step Guide by Michelle MacPhearson
Viral Copy – How to Build Links in the Social Media Era by Brian Clark of CopyBlogger.com

Landing Page Optimization Guides:
Basics of Landing Page Optimization from PluraPage.com
Best Practices for Landing Page Optimization from Marketo.com

Keyword Research Guide:
Keyword Research and Selection from EmarketingPerformance.com

Pay Per Click Guide:
Creating and managing PPC programs —> NEW!
Adwords 2009: A Brave New World by Andrew Goodman —> NEW!
Google Adwords and Yahoo PPC Tips by Aaron Wall

Google Adsense Guide:
Working with Adsense from Oreilly.com

HTML E-Mail Guide:
Designing, Coding and Delivering HTML E-mail

Blogging Guide:
Blogging to Make Money Online by John Chow

We hope you enjoy the list and reading. Just click on the link to the subject you are interested on and find the link to download the Free PDF Guide. We have reviewed and updated the list.

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Best Practices for Upgrading to WordPress 2.3.3

Thanks to Matt Cutts’s post I remembered to upgrade my Blog to WordPress 2.3.3. I highly recommend it as I was starting to see some weird stuff on trackbacks in my Blog, and after the upgrade all the weird things I was seeing disappeared and went back to normal.

You can go check for the new wordpress upgrade at: http://wordpress.org/download/, just follow their step by step best practices, it should be easy and takes no more than 15 minutes.

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SEO Best Practices Blog Promotion:
“Under the Rainbow”

Create your own Slide Show with One True Media:

You can just simply mix your video and photos with their fresh, stylish effects to create wow-worthy Video Montages:

-Makes the creative process fast, fun and rewarding
-Is powerful but easy to use
-Enables you with one click to transform your creations into shareable online videos, DVDs or
photo books
-Works equally well with most media types and formats

Widgets have change the way we promote our sites on the Internet, there are thousands of them today. Start promoting your sites with widgets, this is just an example.

Here are some great sources to check if you are interested on this subject:

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- 30 Amazing things you can do with Widgets
- Marketing with Widgets: Interview with Laurence Coburn
- Spring Widgets: A Widget Engine for the Desktop and the Web
- Widgetoko: New and Popular Widgets to put on your Blog
- Widgipedia: a Wiki for Widgets
- Sexy Widget: Reviews and analysis of widgets, toolbars, and distributed businesses of all flavors
- Widgify: Taming the Wild World O’ Widgets, Social Applications, and the Distributed Web

Have fun!

Have you noticed any reduction of your blog’s traffic recently? Have you checked your blog with the command “site” in Google to see if some of the pages are in Google’s supplemental index?
Site:www.xxxx.com

Supplemental Index: Pages are located in Google’s supplemental index when they are having certain issues with Google guidelines.

If you see a result like this:
www.xxxx.com/xxxx/ – 77k – Supplemental Result – , this means your blog’s pages are being put in Google’s supplemental index.

Aaron Walls of SEO Book wrote a great article mentioning a couple seo
practices you might want to have in mind to avoid having pages in the supplemental index:

1. Get High quality, related links for those pages.
2. Deal with all duplicate issues on your blogs created by feeds, duplicate posts, etc.
3. Don’t link at garbage.
4. Allow comments on your blog pages to get more unique content.
5. Make unique titles and description for those pages.

I’ll add a couple more:
5. Add a couple paragraphs of original content to those pages.
6. Check the internal linking structure of your blog, linking to pages on the supplemental index from non supplemental, related pages in your blog with high PR.

Check the article by Aaron Walls of SEO Book:
Get Your Blog Out of Google’s Supplemental Result Hell

I also recommend to check Steven Bradley’s article:
Problems With WordPress Posts Going Supplemental In Google’s Index