How to Create an Automatically Updating Wordpress Copyright Date
Most webmasters place a copyright date somewhere on their site, usually in the footer. If you are using WordPress, your theme may already have this built into the footer code. However, it probably isn’t coded to update the year automatically. This can be easily fixed by using one of the built in date codes in WordPress. Just copy and paste the following into your footer somewhere.
© Copyright 2008 – <?php echo date(’Y'); ?> <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>. All rights reserved.
It will look something like this, as you can see on this site at the bottom of the page:
© Copyright 2008 – 2009 Net Biz Whiz. All rights reserved.
Change the year 2008 to match the year your website first launched. This creates a proper copyright notice by covering the entire period of time from the launch of your site to current. You can also replace <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> with your domain name if that is more appropriate for your website. Now you will never again need to worry about going back through your sites and updating the copyright notices at the beginning of every year.
Win Your Own Niche Website
Mark Hansen of The Niche Store Builder has a contest going on at his new site called N1WAY Readers Guide. Both of Mark’s sites have a lot of great information for building niche sites, but his N1WAY site is specifically geared for those readers who are following the N1WAY Guide, a great 9 step guide to making money with niche websites. The latest price is only $24.95 and I think it’s well worth it. Mark followed the guide to build the site he is giving away. It’s a beautiful site chock full of great content and is already pulling in some coin. Check it out at www.golfputterguide.com and then head on over to his guide site and enter the contest!
Textbroker Review: Part Deux
Back in December, I posted a review on Textbroker. I’ve given them another shot with a few articles recently and thought I would give an update on the results. Basically, I’ve decided Textbroker is a crapshoot. There are definitely good authors on there, but you may have to go through a few duds to find one. Once you find one you like, your best bet is to save them as a favorite author and return to them in the future. The downside to this is that you have to use Textbroker’s direct request feature in order to select a specific author and this typically results in a higher article price than posting the article to everyone. However, the old saying remains true I guess…you get what you pay for.
Great Themes at Elegant Themes
If you are using WordPress to build websites, then you might want to go check out Elegant Themes. These are some really nice themes that I’ve begun to play around with. Several of the themes come with multiple color schemes which can be changed within the admin panel by simply choosing from a drop down box. The code is simple to navigate for editing purposes and the downloads include any necessary plugins as well as an easy to follow installion and setup guide. The best thing though is the price. As of the date of this post, you can get access to all his themes for $19.95 per year. If you are like me, you probably like to avoid subscriptions but I think this one is a no brainer. If you choose to discontinue your subscription after the first year, I don’t see anything in the agreement that says you can’t continue to use your previously downloaded themes. I’ve paid over fifty bucks just for one Revolution theme and several of these themes are just as appealing in my opinion. Anyway, go check it out. You might find the theme you’ve been looking for.
How to Have Your Blogroll Show on Your Home Page Only
For those of you running WordPress with a blogroll in your sidebar, you might want to set up your blogroll to show on your home page only. Why? There are two good reasons: it’s better for you and it’s better for the sites listed in your blogroll. It’s better for you because it minimizes PageRank bleeding. Unless they carry the nofollow tag, all links pass along some of your PageRank to whatever page is being linked to. Having your blogroll appear on every page of your website only increases the number of offsite links which you are giving PageRank to. If you have five sites in your blogroll and 100 pages on your site, that makes 500 links which could be draining your PageRank. By having your blogroll show on your home page only, that number would be reduced from 500 to just five. Read More »
How to Use HTML Anchor Text Links
This may seem like a very basic webmaster concept, but many of those who are new to building websites do not know how to use html anchor text links in their content and some of those who do know do not use them properly. If you don’t know what anchor text is, it’s the text on a website that you can click on and it takes you to another page or site. It’s usually a different color than the other text and may be underlined, although not always. The actual words being used to create the link is called the anchor text. This text helps tell the search engine spiders what the page being linked to is about. Read More »
Build a Niche Store Review
Back in April while researching some products on ClickBank I came across a piece of software called Build a Niche Store, often referred to as BANS. At first glance I thought it looked like another get rich quick scam but after further browsing of the site and doing some Google searches I decided to lay my money down and try it out. In a nutshell, BANS is a website builder that makes it extremely easy to set up eBay affiliate sites with the goal of earning sales commissions from the eBay Partner Network, eBay’s affiliate arm. Read More »
