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Dec201109

Istvan Horvath

0

Holiday Sale (WordPress combo)

Just a quick note, folks.

Since I wasn’t around in November when my birthday was, I decided to have a huge WordPress Combo Holiday sale now. As some of you may know last month I’ve been in Europe, visiting my home land and family and after that I went to Spain. There we visited Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada (and Alhambra), the Southern Cost and, finally, Barcelona. A few old friends from various countries joined me there to celebrate my birthday.

The internet was on and off, so I didn’t risk to start a sale from there and not being able to deal with eventual technical glitches. Now we have a late birthday sale or an early Christmas sale – whichever
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Sep201109

Istvan Horvath

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The irony of the SEO spam

There are many self-appointed WP “gurus” out there… and, usually, I don’t even bother noticing them and even less arguing with their nonsense teachings. It’s unfair to argue with somebody whose knowledge is so minimal that is laughable.

Next, as my earlier posts can prove it, I don’t engage in personal attacks. This post will be no exception, either: I don’t have anything with the people, only with the methods and publicly available statements.

One more thing, before we discuss the comments from my Spam folder. I consider all the hype around SEO (search engine optimization) to be voodoo science, to say the least. Make no mistake, I
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Aug201124

Istvan Horvath

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My Dear Subscriber,

I have a few confessions to make. Bear with me while I am telling you my best kept secrets – at the end we both will feel better.

First of all: I love you all who signed up to download my free stuff! I love you because by signing up to my list when I needed some assurance that my chosen path into the marketing world was right – you provided the feedback I needed. You made me think I was offering something of value: a report or some tutorials, sharing my knowledge and experience. At that point we all were happy: you got a free resource, I was watching my list growing.

But then, being a novice marketer, I didn’t know what to do with you. I mean what to do
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Aug201118

Istvan Horvath

1

Is your graphic designer a Renaissance man or…?

I am struggling for a while to find a good graphic guy to outsource all that work involving making header images, logos, product covers and similar pictures. Lately, I became so frustrated that I had to think: why is so difficult to find a decent graphic guy?

Now, I have a soft spot for talented people from Eastern Europe. Actually, I do know quite a number of very talented artists: when I look at their work (portfolio) I am always blown away. Wow!

Then we start talking about my needs and knowing I would pay in good dollars, they promise to make everything I need and want. However, the end result is far from what I have seen in their portfolio. No, I am not saying those
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Jun201101

Istvan Horvath

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Your WordPress and the .htaccess file

Sometimes I get questions that are not directly related to WordPress but web sites in general. However, since WordPress creates web sites (even if a specific kind of) — the possible answers will apply to your WP sites, too. Such is the case of the .htaccess file. Any website can have it, and it can have a special role on WordPress sites, as well.

I don’t pretend to be a .htaccess expert, although I know exactly what it does and how it works; I can even do simple modifications on such a file and for more complicated tasks I’d ask for help from one of my programmer (server expert) friends. Or, simply outsource it.

Most WordPress users hear the first
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