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How To Add BlogRush To A WordPress Blog

If you have a , or any blog for that matter, chances are you have heard of BlogRush. BlogRush is a traffic generation strategy specifically for blogs. The porpose of this is to show you how to add the to your blog.

Adding BlogRush to a WordPress blog is really easy, but first you need to sign up and get your code: First click here to get the BlogRush code. Once you sign up and login you will see a dashboard menu like this:

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Click the Get Code menu to add your blog and here you simply add your details. At this point most people are confused about their feed URL. Your feed is the URL of your blog with a /feed on the end like this www.YourBlogURL.com/feed. If you setup your feed at FeedBurner but don’t remember your feed URL just add /feed to the end of your blogs URL in the address bar and it will redirect you to your FeedBurner feed. Copy the FeedBurner feed URL from the address bar and add it in the BlogRush dashboard. To simplify the above: Simply add /feed to the end of your blog’s URL, hit enter and use the address shown.

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After you add your blog now its time to place the code on your WordPress blog’s sidebar. From the BlogRush dashboard click Get Code, and highlight and copy the code. Go to your WordPress blog’s dashboard, Click Presentation, Widgets, and paste the code into a new or existing text widget. Learn more about working with WordPress here: Working With WordPress Text Widgets

If you want to know more about or working with WordPress widgets here are a few links that may help:

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Make WordPress Custom Header Image A Link

Changing the image is a pretty easy. Simply upload a different header to the themes Images folder, Change the name of the old header image to something else and then change the new header image to the name of the current header image.

Well it sounds simple enough huh? Well not so fast. There a few things to consider, like the size of the new image. Make sure it fits and looks well proportioned on your . But all that will be for another post. This is kind of backwards but after you change your header image it will usually cover the name of your blog that is linked to main blog’s URL and now there is now way for your visitors to click it to get back to the main blog page.

The fix is quite simple on the default theme. Open the themes header.php file. and look for the following code near the bottom.

<div id=”page”>

<div id=”header”>
<div id=”headerimg”>
<h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></h1>
<div class=”description”><?php

Now add the following code between the page and header id and change the red URL to your blogs URL.

<div class=”header” onclick=”location.href=’http://www.Your Blogs URL Here.com‘;”
style=”cursor: pointer;”></div>

The code should look like this:

<div id=”page”>
<div class=”header” onclick=”location.href=’http://www.Your Blogs URL Here.com’;”
style=”cursor: pointer;”></div>
<div id=”header”>
<div id=”headerimg”>
<h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></h1>

Now your whole WordPress header image will be linked to your main blog’s URL or the blog’s home page.

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How To Add A Google Sitemap To A WordPress Blog

A few simple steps and a great plugin that will automatically build a sitemap for your blog and notify Google of all your new posts. This is one of the more important steps involved when setting up your new if you want organic search engine traffic.

First install the latest Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress here plugin and follow the installation instructions. This plugin needs write access to your blog directory so make the blog folder writable (CMOD 666 or 777). After activating the plugin you will now have a new Sitemap sub-menu under your Options menu in the
Click the Sitemap menu and click the link to build the sitemap. If all went well it will generate a new sitemap. If not directions and links to more help will be available.

After your sitemap is built go over to Google Webmaster Tools and login or create an account. Now here is where to pay attention OK? You can add your main domain/website and your blog at Google but make sure you add them both. If your is in a directory within your website, submit the blog as another website. If your whole website is run by WordPress then add just the main domain. If your blog is part of your website then add the blogs URL as a website in Google Webmaster Tools.

If your blog is your in a directory on your website then add it as a website like this: http://www.esmartjob.com/blog

After you add your website and or blog to Google then submit your sitemap for that URL. http://www.esmartjob.com/blog/sitemap.xml.

I have got quite a few emails from people who I have installed WordPress blogs with what they think are problems with their blogs. But they will try to add a sitemap for their blog on the main domain instead of the blog directory. If you need help with this or want your WordPress blog optimized I can help here: Help With WordPress

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My WordPress Blog is Broken and I Don’t Know What to Do

Occasionally I get an email form a client I have setup a for or have come across a blog that looks completely, well just all messed up. There is also probably a post every other day on the official WordPress forum titled “My WordPress blog is broken and I don’t know what to do!”

No worries, this will cover some of the most common reasons why your is hosed and how to fix it and not do it again.

The most common problem is the sidebar is pushed down below the posts on the main index page. Usually this is a result of bad HTML code, an open HTML tag or formatting from a website or MS Word within a post. Just how does this bad code get into a post you ask? Well usually it comes from copying something from an existing website and pasting it into the Visual editor when creating a new . It can also happen if you write your post in a program like MS Word and paste it into the visual editor when creating a post. Pasting from a website or MS Word will retain the formatting of the page and also bring in all the other HTML elements and even scripts that you can’t see. To check for unwanted HTML and scripts in a , click the Code editor on the top left of the post box and look for any unwanted HTML or formatting.

To eliminate this possibility all together, paste any copied text into the Code editor instead of the Visual editor. Then you can click back to the Visual editor to format the post to your liking. This will not bring in any HTML, scripts or formatting into your new blog post.

One very important thing to consider when using HTML or scripts within a post or editing or customizing the themes templates files is to make sure you close all HTML or PHP tags. Open code tags will wreak havoc on a blog, or any website for that matter. The most common problem I see is people placing scrips like AdSense, or banner ads into a new sidebar text widget. The ads can be too big, or again code tags are not closed, causing everything under the bad code to become misaligned or pushed off the themes border.

Another cause for issues is placing autoresponder opt-in code on the sidebar. This can be tricky to get it to fit. If you are going to do this be sure to check your blog in as many different browsers as possible. If it is too wide for the sidebar or if you leave a tag open it can really screw up your blog.

Remember when making any new posts view your blog to make sure there are no errors or problems. Also if you are going to by editing the themes template files create a backup of the file first and check the site with each change.

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