Ah, well. Last month I tried out a new blog theme, based on a so called framework.
Within 1 month my Google traffic went down 40%.
I could have changed some things on the new theme, but unfortunately the framework is badly documented. Only blatant, side wide changes are easy to implement. The moment you want to go beyond the most basic changes, there's zero documentation.
That's the bad thing about using WordPress frameworks instead of themes.
The excellent help you get from WordPress documentation (and from thousands of Blogs publishing wp tutorials) doesn't work with frameworks. Then, if the framework is badly documented, and support is lazy, you can't make the needed modifications to your site.
So, starting today, I'm back to my old theme. Instead of using a framework.
Since the theme is outdated and doesn't fulfill my current needs, I'll hire a designer for the good looks, and I'll write my own theme.
Back to work …
P.S. Excuse the mess. :-) Some things have stopped working, because I have deleted the plugins after I switched to the framework. Some others are working twice as good, for example images ans social buttons showing twice. Not sure if I fix this now, or simply wait until I have the new theme ready.
There have been a few services offering RSS feeds from your Google plus stream. One by one, they seem to go out of service. Another one just vanished, leaving my g+ site bar widget empty. I'm looking forward to the g+ API becoming good enough to pull the stream without external services! For now, my [...]
I'm releasing two new tools for everyone to use. They have been online for some time, but only for my team, and not officially linked on my blog. The Line Break Remover The name says it all. Enter any text, press the button, and you'll get your text back with line breaks removed. http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/remove-linebreaks The [...]
Today I'm switching to a new theme. It might be bumpy for a while, I have to recreate some custom programming. If you run into problems, especially with the online tools, please let me know.
Facebook like buttons and fan pages not allowed in Germany's state of Schleswig Holstein anymore. You may think this is a joke, but it is not. German privacy protectors asked web sites owners to remove Facebook like buttons from their sites, and threaten to fine € 50,000. They claim Facebook Like buttons and Fan pages [...]
UPDATE MARCH 2012: I've changed my internet business blog to a new WordPress theme, and the Disqus comments didn't look nice. So, for now, I'm disabling disqus. Maybe I'll come back to adjust the comments CSS, so that disqus will look ok, after everything else is working fine. At first, other theme changes have priority. [...]
With Google+ continuously rising to popularity, people just have to wonder what kind of people are behind this ever-growing company. So, what kind of personalities, habits, and responsibilities do you think the men behind Google have? Danny Sullivan, the editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, helps us discover the answer by holding an interview session with [...]
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Toprankblog.com has compiled a great list of 4 free and 1 partially free reports on using social media for B2B marketing. Here are the direct download links for the 5 B2B social media PDFs, no sign-up required. B2B Tech Marketing and Social Media The Infinite Dial 2011: Navigating Digital Platforms 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry [...]
Google announced that the algorithm changes from the so-called ‘Farmer Update’ are being rolled out internationally. But that’s not all. They’ve added a new feature to their ranking algorithm, and it basically says: If users let Google know they don’t like your site, your ranking will suffer. Google’s Amit Singhal explained it this way: “… [...]
Okay, so we know people are spamming the web with crappy content. Content that is scraped from other sites, badly spun, or at worst even translated to a different language and then translated back to English. Now one those web masters was “smart” enough to complain about his site not being indexed in the Google [...]
UPDATE March 2012: To simplify things the password protected download system has been deactivated. I'll now send the direct download links via email to my subscribers. END UPDATE A few days ago I told you about a technical problem with the free downloads. I finally fixed it, simply by deactivating the plugin that caused the [...]
UPDATE March 2012: To simplify things the password protected download system has been deactivated. I'll now send the direct downloadlinks via email to my subscribers. END UPDATE When you login for the free downloads it seems that the login is not working and you can't get the download. Actually it is working, but you have [...]
The reality is that changes are coming… They must come. You must share in bringing them. ~John Hersey~ You’ve probably made that mistake yourself. Excited by unlimited opportunities you take on dozens or (in my case) hundreds of projects…and in the end there’s little chance of creating anything of excellence. Simply because you’re diverting your [...]
From now on I’m changing the feed settings to only display the summary of each blog post. As I will explain in a more detailed post later today, there’s going to be a lot of new content coming to the internet business mastermind blog. Up until now I had only 1 post per week. Sending [...]
It’s Free – For Everyone! Dr.Mani, heart surgeon and infopreneur, is launching his second print book on February 14th, 2010 as part of an annual fundraising event, “The Heart Kids Blogathon”. But he’s doing something unusual today… he’s letting you read his book for FREE! http://www.47hearts.com If you visit his website, you can download a [...]
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This email formatting tool is a godsend for any email marketer. Like magic and at the blink of an eye, your email will be formatted and ready to paste into your autoresponder without requiring any tedious work from you!
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A few days ago I posted a tweet that I’d get my hair colored for the first time in my life. Well, Jeremy (Jezhunt) suggested I should go for green. It would probably look like this:
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Here’s a great article on how to go viral with Twitter. It’s based on detailed research on shows you 5 precise elements your Tweet needs to go viral. It’s a must read if you’re using Twitter for marketing your business.
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