WordPros.com http://wordpros.com/blog Ins and Outs of Writing: On the Web, In Print, For Speakers & More! Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Rearranging the Furniture http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/rearranging-the-furniture/ http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/rearranging-the-furniture/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:54:26 +0000 Kerri Elders http://wordpros.com/blog/?p=228 We’re in the process of upgrading our site, so please bear with us while we renovate. Happy Holidays to All!

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—Will Rogers

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Here’s how.

]]> http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/backup-wordpress-blog/feed/ 0 How to Find Incoming Links to Your Site http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/how-to-find-incoming-links-to-your-site/ http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/how-to-find-incoming-links-to-your-site/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:35:50 +0000 Kerri Elders http://wordpros.com/blog/?p=203 Another great service from Google: here are a couple of methods for finding incoming links to your site.

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This handy tool will keep you in the loop regarding Google’s spiders and their policies about site indexing for Google searches.

Help make the internet a better place by cleaning out any comment spam or other nuisances that might be costing your blog precious site ranking. Remember, “you can’t do what you don’t know”–educate yourself!

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–H.L. Mencken

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—Will Rogers

]]> http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/disagreeable-democrats/feed/ 0 Quickly Condense Web Pages for Easy Reading http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/quickly-condense-web-pages-for-easy-reading/ http://wordpros.com/blog/2009/12/quickly-condense-web-pages-for-easy-reading/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:34:58 +0000 Kerri Elders http://wordpros.com/blog/?p=193 Here’s an indispensable tool for prolific readers of web content: Readability.

Just download this handy app, easily add it to your browser’s toolbar, & with a single mouseclick you can escape all the web page clutter (ads, images, photos, rotating banners, Bing nag screens, etc.) and get to the heart of the web page: the article you’re trying to read.

I’ve found it indispensable for web research; I can quickly scan an article and move on to the next search result without enduring all the visual distractions inherent in the modern web.

See what you think; download this great experiment here.

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—Will Rogers

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