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I would recommend you to install and enable Akismet: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
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Yes. I still recommend using feedburner. It offers a number advantages over the standard setup of RSS in Wordpress. One of which is that you use Google's bandwidth rather than your own (or your webhotel's) for all the RSS feed requests. Feedburner is also very customisable.
Of the advantages, one of the notable ones is turning on Pingshot in Feedburner to ...
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Well, this is the most important thing. You can blog all you want, but if you don't market and optimize your site appropriately, it'll all be for naught. I'll try to keep things direct, although brevity isn't my strong suit. Have a plan!
Let's first take care of the search engine submissions.
1) Make a sitemap.xml and urllist.txt.
Go to ...
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I would recommend you to use a free captcha service like SweetCaptcha
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sweetcaptcha-revolutionary-free-captcha-service/
You can also use an external service to manage your comments like Disqus
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/
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Does blogging with popular cms like wordpress makes my website an authority website in SEO?
No. It's about quality of your content, uniqueness, trust!, reliability. (You don't have to be the number one search result at any given time, btw.). It's not necessary that your content, your page or site is over-optimized.
does blogging on popular cms ...
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It makes sense to include Google ads when you think the number of ad clicks will pay you for the work/time investment of including the ads on your pages.
For the first seven hours of your blog's life, <100 visitors is pretty good. Are you sure these are unique users and are you sure they do not include you visiting your brand new site? Do you know how ...
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As a site owner, soliciting guest posts allows you to run a website without paying writers. Sites such as Problogger and The Huffington Post have built huge content archives and massive ad revenue on the backs of writers who were willing to work for backlinks, exposure, and a byline alone.
The choice to accept guest posts is often a choice to dilute a ...
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Something no-one else seems to have picked up on is the quality of the blog postings themselves. Are they about topics anyone cares about? Are they well written, do they provoke a response?
Making posts on other blogs is a very good idea as @Osvaldo states. If you want people to come and post good comments on your blog, you going out and doing the same on ...
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The FD FeedBurner plugin still works as a means to redirect requests for the default WordPress feeds to your FeedBurner ones.
FeedBurner is worth using purely because it makes moving your blog without losing subscribers so easy. Should you wish to move from WordPress to tumblr, for example, you just update the feed address in FeedBurner and you're done. No ...
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If you are using wordpress or other CMS does not mean you have all the way up. You can use a proprietary CMS and achieve almost everything that wordpress does... but, is very hard create a CMS by yourself better than Wordpress.
So, what are the SEO Benefits Of WordPress?
Customizable Permalinks
Clean website code
Robots.txt Optimization
Allows you to ...
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Well you can use the awesome IFTTT to handle such trigger.
Here are two recipes for Facebook and Twitter:
Blog post to Facebook
Blog post to Twitter
For Google Plus, it seems to be more complicated. If you have a wordpress blog, it will be easy with this recipe. Otherwise, you can customize this one (which is Twitter to G+).
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You wait.
You're pinging an update service, you're presumably also publishing a feed, and you've done the manual submission, after which they'll "do their best to add it to their index as quickly as possible." You've covered your options. Now you wait. Google almost never make any specific statements about how long anything will take.
This assumes, of ...
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First off - it is near impossible to ensure 100% spam is never received on a public site that allows user submission, the best you can hope for is lowering it as much as you can.... Spam prevention is like a car alarm, it lowers the chances of becoming a victim.
There is hundreds of guides on the net but here's 5 solutions:, I personally just remove the ...
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There are a number of paid and free tools which will help to identify sites/pages which have similar content. For example copyscape or plagium are two such offerings.
Overall however your best bet is to make sure that you are seen as the original author/source of the content. A well constructed and well liked/linked site can help to establish this.
This ...
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FlatPress meets most of your requirements, in my experience. I've been using it for a private blog for about a year and a half. Point-by-point:
It was simple to install and reasonably simple to install a theme.
Development seems active (latest update was June 2011 as I type this).
I've not really looked at the code, and don't know PHP that well anyway, ...
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The more often you upload new content and the more backlinks you have to your blog the more often Google will index your site.
On one of my blogs when I used to keep it updated daily, I could see new posts in the SERPS within a few hours (possibly sooner but I can't vouch for that). Now that I don't have so much time for this blog and I update it less ...
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If it's a blog on tech subjects (web/internet etc) you could try removing the rel="nofollow" from link to the website of the commentor and make it loud and clear on your blog that you don't use nofollow for good interesting comments.
I would be more happy to spend time adding nice and interesting comments on blogs that reward me by adding a link to my ...
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You can use Jekyll. It's quite simple to set up.
This code prints all the posts on your site:
{% for post in site.posts limit:5 %}
<div>
<h2><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h2>
<em>Posted on {{ post.date | date_to_long_string }}.</em>
{{ post.content }}
<hr/>
...
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Just post creation, comment creation and caching are the big things I'm hoping for.
Around 2000 I wrote my own blogging application .NET. Like you say: making posts, having comments, archives, and the lot. However after a while I still moved to WordPress which I am using to this day.
So now I need to think on how to take your arguments away:
I don't ...
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Tumblr allows you to write your own custom design very easily, but they will host the blog for you.
For your needs, Wordpress ( http://wordpress.org/ ) sounds like the best to be used. check out the basic theme which wordpress gives you by default to get started with.
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