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Don’t Share This On Digg

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

There is one feature in the Pligg script that really shouldn't be there and makes absolutely no sense. Can you guess what it is?

digg, guidelines, mixx, senseless, share

How to increase traffic

Monday, April 28, 2008

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After you install Pligg and custom design it, theres only one thing left to do, get traffic! This will probably be the hardest part of maintaining your Pligg site.

pliggs, social, tips, traffic

Pliggs Mysterious Karma

Friday, April 25, 2008

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The karma feature in Pligg has always been a mysterious feature. I still haven't been able to change the values given for submissions, votes etc...

cron job, karma, Pligg, schedule

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Can you be contacted by a member/potential member, someone interested in advertising on your website? I have spent a great deal of time visiting dozens of Pligg powered websites in the last 2 days and about 80% had no contact form. [...]

about, contact, faceless

Trackback?

Friday, April 18, 2008

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Trackbacks have been one of the biggest downfalls of Pligg. While the feature is built in, it has never worked properly or at all. On step 2 of the submission process, there is a field at the bottom that will auto populate if Pligg can find the trackback on the source page, or you can [...]

backlink, ping, trackbacks

You can improve Your Search Engine Rankings, too!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

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For a low price of $4.95, you can increase your search engine rankings using these 1834 ‘easy’ mind-numbing steps! hmph. How about we just give you some free tips and call it a day? I think that would be best. There are countless things you can do to improve your SEO to any blog (or website) [...]

advanced permalinks, all in one, headings, keyword density, permalinks, plugin, seo, site maps, title, traffic, url, visibility, wordpress

How to Create Modules in Pligg

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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To understand how modules work, you have to understand the filesystem hierarchy for each module. All Pligg modules exist as individual directories (listed by module name) in pliggroot/modules. I will refer to pliggroot throughout this document as the path to your pligg web application. Within pliggroot is also a file called module.php. This is mostly just [...]

coding, how-to, Modules

How to Hack a Pligg Template

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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If you’ve read my post on Understanding Pligg Template Files and want to take a crack at hacking a template of your own, you may find these tips helpful. This is my workflow for porting a template to Pligg.

designing, hack, template

Optimize your pligg site for better SEO

Monday, April 7, 2008

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Anybody that has used the pligg cms system will know that straight out of the wrapper it isn’t optimized as much as it could be for SEO (search engine optimization). Some of the more evident problems pligg can pose are URL structure, multiple duplicate content Urls, non seo optimized page titles, and no site-maps for [...]

Pligg, Pligg Hacks, Pligg Modules, pligg seo, pligg sitemaps, search engine optimization