What is #followfriday on Twitter?

Twitter is a very powerful instant communication tool. It can be used for fun, business or a combination of both. I wanted to answer the question; What is #followfriday? So here is a quick video showing you what follow Friday is and how to participate.

Follow me on Twitter.
Follow me on Youtube.

Hope that helps!

Adding YouTube Videos to your Blog Post

A quick Video on how to embed video into your blog post with out using a plugin. This video tutorial is only for the WordPress blogging platform. There are several great WP flash video embed plugins, but this will show you a quick way of adding video to your post, without the need for a plugin.

Watch more of my videos here: Traffic is Gold Youtube Channel

Making WordPress SEO Friendly URLS

SEO_WP_image.gifI put together a short video on how to make your [tag]WordPress blog[/tag] [tag]URL[/tag]s [tag]search engine friendly[/tag]. It’s a simple task, but can help you out tremendously in your effort to [tag]rank[/tag] on the front page of the major search engines.

How it works: WordPress takes advantage of the [tag].htacess file[/tag] to do a [tag]URL re-write[/tag].

The default setting: http://www.trafficisgold.com/?p=123

URL re-write change: http://www.trafficisgold.com/2007/09/24/wordpress-23-is-now-available/

Check out the video and if you have any questions just leave a comment and I will see what I can do to help.

Excluding Pages In The WordPress Sidebar

WP_video_tutorial.gifI created a [tag]Youtube[/tag] video to show how you can exclude a page from showing up in the [tag]Wordpress[/tag] sidebar of your blog. I did a quick search on [tag]Google[/tag] for a [tag]plug-in[/tag] but was not able to find anything. If anyone knows of a plug-in please post on the blog.

Find:
The first thing you will need to do is edit the sidebar.php file. Do a search for the following function: [tag]wp_list_pages[/tag].

Edit:
Next you will need to find the post ID for the page you want to exclude. Once you know this you will add this “&exclude=5” to your wp_list_pages function.

Example: <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li&exclude=5’); ?>

Upload:
Once you have modified and saved your file then upload to your server and the page will be updated.

Done

Future Posting In WordPress (Video)

This is a simple how to video on future posting in [tag]WordPress[/tag]. Why would you want to [tag]future post[/tag]? There are several reasons. You may work a full time job where blogging is not an option. Therefore, you write several posts on your off time and “future post” them through out the week. Maybe you are going on vacation and want your readers to have fresh content even when you are miles away from a computer, sipping a Corona, getting a tan on some white sandy beach in [tag]Mexico[/tag]. In any case, future posting is simple in the WordPress interface.

Here are the steps:
1. First write your post like normal
2. Before you publish set the date and time you want the post to appear.
3. Publish the post
4. The post will not appear until the date and time you designated