With so much change constantly ocurring in the online world keeping up to date is nigh on impossible.  One frustration that I have always had with Wordpress is that a page title is always reflected in full in the navigation menus.  I had looked for ages for a way to shorten this without manual coding and pretty much abadoned hope of finding a solution.

Then today whilst developing a new site I noticed some new options in the All in One SEO plugin.  I don’t know how long they’ve been there – in fact they could have been there from the beginning but I’ve only just realized what one of these features does.

Yes it enables you to give a bespoke “Menu” title to a page that is displayed in the navbar or sidebar.  Brilliant now I can still have an SEO page title but make it more friendly for the user by shortening it as appropriate for navigation purposes.

In the last month or so I’ve been building a team in the Phillipines to help run my business.   I did this because I simply couldn’t manage the number of websites I’d created nor build new sites efficiently or quick enough any longer.  I have now trained these guys and suddenly find I have time on my hands to start learning once again.

Most of you will know the importance of getting backlinks to your sites but this can be a royal pain because our niche sites, whilst serving a valuable purpose, hardly have people queing to link to them.  Many swear by blog commenting but I can’t stand leaving my target keywords in my name field it looks horrible.

Imagine my delight when I came across a plugin called Keyword Luv which encourages you to leave your name and keywords in the comment.  Check it out for yourself and leave a comment on my blog to see how it works and then grab yourself a copy and we can all help one another without resorting to spam.

I hope you like it.