Jun 8

SEO & Twitter Plug Ins For Word Press – A Couple of New Ones For Kickstart

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SEO & Twitter Word Press Plug In

Hello!

As I am sure most of you are aware, plugins are a big part to getting your blog running smoothly and looking ace!  As a new kid on the block Kickstart has been fumbling around the encyclopedia of Word Press plugins in order to try and streamline ourselves and get down with the kids on the plugin front.

I wanted to highlight a couple of the ones we have siphoned out of the not-so-great plugins that are out there.

Firstly…as SEO is one of the main topics we cover here at Kickstart it’s only right that we work towards optimising our blog.  There are a whole host of SEO plug ins out there and I think we’ve hit the nail on the head with the one we’re using at Kickstart.  We’ve gone with All In One SEO. This is a nifty little plugin that enables you to edit each and every title tag, meta description and keywords for all your pages and posts including the homepage!

You don’t need any HTML or coding knowledge whatsoever! The plugin automatically places a great little box underneath every post and you simply update and optimise away!

The second great plug in we’ve adopted is one to display our Tweets! Again, there is a wealth of options out there for Twitter plugins, some of which we’ve tried and tested and not thought so great. However this one is great! Twitter Goodies automatically generates Twitter buttons under every post that enables anyone reading your blog to easily Tweet any of your super duper posts! It also implements a live Twitter feed screen onto your blog which you can customise the colour scheme of so you can match it to your background and blog!

All in all, two great Word Press plugins which make your blog look great and (hopefully!) rank well!

Over and out Kickstartees and happy plugging!

Kickstart :-)

Jun 6

Twitter – Follow Our Chirps!

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Follow SEO Kickstarts Chirps

Hello all,

Apologies for the lack of activity over the weekend…I stupidly agreed to embark on a charity 10k run so spent most of the weekend in recovery. Despite dreading the event it was actually rather rewarding even if I am now cramped up beyond belief!

Anywho….if you simply can’t get enough of my endless mouthing about SEO and my voyage of technical and online discovery via the blog then you can also get us on this very small and unheard of website known as Twitter ?!? To be honest I  don’t know if this so called “tweeting” will ever catch on but hey ho, its worth a try :-)

Now that we’ve got our aesthetics pretty much sorted it’s time to breach out to the other online realms of possibility…first port of call being Twitter! Follow us on the move…wherever we may be…we will come to you live from every corner of the globe (well…not quite but you get what I’m saying! )

Looking forward to your follows on the big “T”!

Keep tuning in people and thanks for your lovely comments so far!

Over and out,

Kickstart :-)

Jun 3

XML Sitemap – Pretty Please Index Me

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Index Me Please Mr Big G

Hey all,

Just a quick one…we all know how we want to be indexed by the big “G” as quickly as possible to get us up there in the SERPS…well I was sat in quandry as my minimal dev skills could not stretch to working out how to install my sitemap into my word press theme so on the advice of a friend I searched for a plugin! I found one called XML Sitemap Feed and so far so good!

It did exactly what it said it would and I could instantly view a sitemap which is also compatible with Google Webaster Tools!

However, as they say, the proof is in the pudding so watch this space and we’ll see if it works!

Fingers Crossed,

Kickstart :-)

Jun 2

Web Design the Slow (yet strangely fulfilling) Way

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Hey all,

Thanks for joining me in my voyage of discovery in the world of SEO, Web Design and anything slightly geeky.  So…the crack is…I like SEO, I work in SEO and despite having been severley computer illiterate at Uni I am now a self confessed web geek who spends hours choosing fonts for word press headers, weeks exploring word press themes and years recovering from my endless hours on word press via the medium that is Black Ops & Fifa Sessions

As I develop this blog I will be taking you with me and sharing any thing really geekily brilliant with you along the way.

The mission statement of this blog is it must created out of love for tech and most imporatantly…for FREE!

There are some incredible resources out there and if you are prepared to take the time to filter out the crap and find the good then you can create something wonderful!  I am not claiming that my blog is by any stretch ” wonderful” yet but this is what I am striving for so any advice or any tools you want to share with me please do!

In the mean time…whilst perusing the ether of the web last night I came across a wicked free font site with some really great grafitti style fonts on there.  The website is DaFont and they can literally take hours of your life via searching through their incredible back catalogue of brill fonts…enjoy!

May 25

SEO Kickstart Is On Its Way!

Hey guys and girls…Welcome to SEO Kickstart!  We’ve officially launched as of 22.04 GMT and from now on check in for all the latest SEO news and views.  We’re only in our infancy so give us a chance but we’re here to have a classic chin wag about the ever changing world of SEO and are always open to comments and views of how we can improve as well as anything interesting in the world of SEO that you may have come across!

Keep tuning in!

SEO Kickstart :-)

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