Found a great website for hacking up your WordPress blog.

I found it by doing a search on how to separate my trackbacks from user comments in my comment section.

Nothing sucks more than trying to read what other users have to say in comment sections (especially on popular articles) and I have to skip through all the trackbacks. It really interrupts the conversation - but, we still all love those incoming links.

Unfortunately, there are no plugins yet that do this automatically for you, or at least none that I have seen. You will actually have to get into your blog’s php code and add a few lines. It’s super easy. Just follow the step-by-step instructions shown on the site.

My suggestion is to make sure you back up your comments.php file by copying and pasting the original code into a text file. Then if you do something wrong, simply paste that old code back into the file.

1. To optimize Wordpress for SEO, one thing you should do is make sure your “Categories” and other sidebar headers are not contained inside the header tags as it tells Googlebot the word “Categories” is an important term on your website.
2. In my opinion, it’s better to write the content on your website for humans and not Googlebot (i.e. search engines).
3. Don’t have a flash intro as your website’s landing page.

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A quick note to thank everyone for giving Lindsey and me a week’s break from blog posts for the birth of our son, Ethan. He was born on 4/8/08 and yes, we no longer sleep!

Is a question just a question or is there a deeper meaning behind it?

When someone asks me a question, I try to look beyond the surface of what they are asking and try to find out what they truly are meaning. I find many times people don’t know how to ask for what they really want.

As an entrepreneur, it’s your job to solve problems. When people ask meaningless questions, you need to figure out what it is they truly want and then fulfill those needs for them. That’s how you win.

Let’s look at an example.

Some people pay a lot of attention to it. They toss and turn in bed at 3am thinking, what else could I do?

What is it that soaks their pillows at night with sweat?

PageRank – our official stamp of approval our buddy Googlebot gives our sites.

Some people work really hard at obtaining a good PageRank while others ignore it and just focus on what they do; and if a good PageRank comes of it, so be it.

My philosophy is I write for my website’s visitors and not search engines; however, I try not to do anything that would piss off our little friend, Googlebot. When creating a title I make sure to put them in those header tags search engines love so much.

The eVentureBiz Community Forum has a sub-forum titled “Search Engine Optimization” where I posted a topic about the best kinds of sites to exchange links with. This can help your Google’s PageRank if done right.

Being that I own a web hosting company, I frequently surf through online forums replying to people’s hosting questions. Of all the questions I answer, I see one that appears over and over again:

What are the drawbacks of free web hosting?

1. Bottlenecks

• Free hosting accounts typically are packed onto 1 server with lots of other free hosting accounts. This clog of websites severely slows down the server with each one fighting for CPU time. Results: Your site may work slow and go offline from time to time.

2. Low Bandwidth and Limited Disk Space

• You usually get 1-3GB of bandwidth with free hosting accounts. This translates to a site designed for very little traffic coming to it. If there is a lot of traffic coming to it (or another on your sever) your site may go down. Also, disk space is usually measured in megabytes (50-100mb). That’s basically enough space for a few pics and some text.