I recently installed a new theme on another blog. As with most of my blogs I was using the manual excerpts so that my home page and my category pages show a summary of the article instead of the whole article. However the new theme was not equipped to show the manual excerpt and finding a solution was far more difficult than I would of imagined.

Generally it is regarded that the google adsense rectangular blocks have the highest CTR of all the adsense blocks. You have probably seen many blogs use them in the top left hand side of the articles aligned with the top of the article. But how exactly do you achieve this effect? Well its a fairly siple fix.

A simple guide to remove the tag “META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW” from your wordpress blog and a lesson in logical troubleshooting that will save you plenty of time in the future.

Now I should mention when I refer to “blog”, I am in fact referring to the wordpress blog software. It is an amazingly adaptable, easy-to-use and SEO friendly platform that I use for almost all my sites. And after using wordpress for so many sites there are 7 steps I take every time when setting up a new blog.

Well if you are a regular reader you may of noticed a change in the website. That is that there is no longer any content. Well I am here to tell you I have had a security issue and lost the database with my 1200+ post.