How To Miss The Google Slap

I have been getting mini-slapped on some of my campaigns lately and here is an interesting  post from shoemoney with some informative comments. I have to come back to this to apply some of these techniques to optimize my campaign. I found another cool site that I’m sure will have very interesting tips on tricking Google from shoemoney’s comments: IHateGoogle has a very informative ‘Definitive Guide to Link Cloaking’. Will revisit and let you know how this works out.

Turning WordPress Into A CMS

I am currently working on developing some of my sites by using WordPress as a CMS.  I was originally trying to use Joomla, and I might continue that with one of my sites, but WordPress just seems easier to use and more pleasing to the eye.  No doubt Joomla has an amazing amount of features, but it really looks like too much is going on and its not necessarily appealing to the reader or the eye (other than the fact that it looks busy).  I am a newbie with wordpress but I’m sure there are enough plugins here and there to create a basic CMS. 

I found a post by 3.7 designs: http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/2006/10/25/5-wordpress-plugins-that-will-turn-wordpress-into-a-cms/ from a couple months ago that gives a few tips on how to make wordpress into a CMS.  

Ok yeah I still need to learn how to TAG, and do permalinks and all the funky stuff.