How To Tweak Your Web Site or Blog?
I was reading the most recent post from ShoeMoney.com this morning and saw that he had asked Joost de Valk to make a WordPress plugin that requires minimum character length to be written in a comment in order for it to be allowed to publish.
I thought that the plugin was very cool and so I got to snooping around Joost’s site a little more and soon realized that his blog was totally a place where I could learn how to tweak my blogs and web sites.
Joost de Valk is extremely talented and I really like the tips, tricks and free WordPress plugin downloads found on site. But also, I really enjoy how the blog is set up. It is extremely user friendly, very clean and very organized.
When I was a kid, my mom always wanted me to have a clean room. Well, Joost’s blog is an example of a blog that looks like how my mom would have wanted my room to look. It’s nice. Very nice….
yoast.com is amazingly simply to use towards finding any and all of his current and previous writings and works. One of the neat features of the site that I think is rare to see in WordPress blogs is Joost’s use of breadcrumb navigation links found on the top of every page within the body content. I know where I am at on his site at all times.
yoast.com – tweaking websites
Yoast is a personal blog of a seasoned and highly skilled WordPress geek and site developer. On the blog you will find what you need to optimize your blog or web site for improved performance and search engine optimization.
Features At A Glance:
- WordPress Plugins: Joost has near 20 high quality and free WordPress plugins that provider users with an array of tools ranging from better optimizing their WordPress blog to socially getting their blog more plugged into the networks.
- SEO Tools: Over the years, Joost has developed some SEO Tools that are free to use and download for yourself. These tools include a PageRank checker, SEO Link Analysis and even special SEO Tools for Mac Users.
- Articles and Guides: Separate from his blog content, these are static articles that provide readers with some amazing guides and tutorials on how to improve the performance of their blog and better optimize it for search engines.
- The Blog: The blog section of Yoast.com is nice as it recaps the business life and journey of Joost de Valk. Additionally, the blog is used to announce changes and updates in existing plugins and it is also used to announce new developments being produced.
Joost de Valk is a search engine strategist and an experience web developer. To learn more about Joost de Valk visit his “Meet Yoast” page and check out his LinkedIn profile.
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You humble me with your kind words, glad you like it all!
Joost de Valk
4 Aug 08 at 12:06 pm
Your site is great and you provide great stuff that my readers will enjoy. It was my pleasure to write a post about you and the site.
Garry Conn
4 Aug 08 at 12:09 pm
I enjoyed his blog too when I went over to grab the wordpress plugin, I would love a design like that.
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Bryn Youngblut
4 Aug 08 at 12:14 pm
His design is great, however, I think his design compliments how he runs and organizes his content on his blog. Once could have a duplicate design but it wouldn’t be the same unless they formatted their sections and categories just as Joost has done.
Garry Conn
4 Aug 08 at 3:20 pm
I have got to go check this out. I have been playing around with different things on another one of my blogs that I use for practice. I am surprised at how much you can learn off of the internet.
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Gaje Master
4 Aug 08 at 6:33 pm
The amount you can learn on the Internet is never ending… the only limits is the amount of time that someone can invest.
Garry Conn
4 Aug 08 at 9:03 pm
I would have to say that this is very true considering that I can’t invest as much time as a lot of people since I have a house full of little ones but I try my best to learn a little bit each day.
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Gaje Master
5 Aug 08 at 11:14 am
Thanks for the tip…you know I’m turning into a self inflicted wordpress tweaker myself, so, I need all the help I can get!
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JK Swopes
6 Aug 08 at 8:37 am
If you have seen the famous Budweiser Real Men of Genius commercials you’d be laughing at this: Mr. Self Inflicted Wordpress Tweak’eerrr.
If you don’t know what I am talking about, then watch this one on Mr. Handlebar Mustache Wearer:
Garry Conn
6 Aug 08 at 10:54 am
WOW is all I can utter. I think Im going to have to pay joost some rent with all the time Im going to be spending on his blog over the next little while. Good find G !!!
Scarry good
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8 Aug 08 at 1:25 pm
wow this is such a good find! Thanks for sharing. Im still having a hard time with my blog’s layout till I found your post!Really helpful! thanks! keep blogging!
jonhar
16 Mar 09 at 4:27 pm