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I hate Google. I mean I really loathe them. Arrogant, smug, self-satisfied pricks, every last one of them. Who the hell do they think they are? I own the arrogant, smug, self-satisfied prick thing, been that way since I was born. Now, because this big corporation comes along and plays it like I’ve been playing it all my life, they get all the attention just because nobody knows who the hell I am! How fair is that?
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Just upgraded to WordPress 3.0? Are you using the TwentyTen theme? Do you have All in One SEO installed? Are your page titles now screwed up?

TwentyTen is a very clean and practical theme and, unlike the previous default, is perfectly acceptable as a production theme. I’ve created a child theme 95% based on TwentyTen as a rapid deployment template and it works really well apart from one niggle with the page titles.
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These young whippersnappers! Seriously though, there’s a great (in a non-hype way) blog called ViperChill that I strongly advise you take a look at.
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Most web developers know that Internet Explorer sucks and those that don’t just aren’t paying attention. IE8 sucks slightly less than IE7 which sucked a fraction less than the truly appalling IE6 and with IE9 on the way there’s a chance by this time next year Microsoft will have finally reached the starting gate for web standards – a place other vendors passed years ago.
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Does anyone know why it takes a comparative eternity to get indexed by Google these days? It used to be I could launch a site and have it indexed within 24-48 hours just by applying the sort of techniques Google claims it loves – quality content, quality backlinks and so on.

My last few site launches are still sitting around waiting on Google to grace them with its presence. Oh sure, the crawler popped by after about 20 minutes. But can I get anything indexed? Not on your life.
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WordPress has become the blogging tool of choice and little wonder when you consider it allows non-technical users to rapidly produce good looking web sites for zero outlay, has a countless number of add-ons and enhancements and Google seems to adore anything produced with it.

I’ve settled on WordPress for all my new sites. The idea of reinventing the wheel by going back to static sites makes no sense. Even site design is easily taken care or by picking one of the thousands of free themes out there and simply plugging it in.
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I am still slaving away at my first mini-site.

I’m not bogged down in technical issues or spending ages touching up graphics, it’s more trying to build something that I can leverage in the future.
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I’ve gone quiet for a reason. I’m working hard on my first mini-site. Actually, it’s a blog/ e-commerce hybrid that should suit the niche I’ve decided to start with.

The site will be running on WordPress using a custom theme I’ve knocked together from various super helpful resources on the Internet.
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Here’s a look at the first couple of weeks statistics for this blog, which I think is a fairly typical measure of what to expect when you are making a start.
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In reference to the Cloaking Your WordPress Affiliate Links post I wrote a few days ago, I had a little accident that I should relate.

For whatever reason, maybe WordPress updated something or maybe I wrote over the file, .htaccess was reset to its initial state thereby breaking every affiliate link on my site.
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