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  1. AgentDrazenPetrovic

    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    Maybe there are people here who use Word Press. how is it as an easy-to use, publishing platform for say a business. I see there are some themes, you can update news and archive pretty easily?
     
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    SodaPopinski Tigers love pepper

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    If you use WordPress, the terrorists have won.

    -Pop
     
  3. AgentDrazenPetrovic

    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    mook The 2018-19 season was the best I've seen

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    I like it. Tons of plugins and themes, and if you play around with CSS you can tweak it quite a bit.
     
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    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    Check out my site. That's just using the default kubrick theme.

    http://dabullz.com/

    The possibilities are endless with wordpress. I love it.
     
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    Stevenson Old School

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    Wordpress rocks.

    After much analysis, that is what I went with. We used the media theme and totally customized it - easily. I'm very happy with it, and that's after a very expensive mistake using Drupal. :(

    www.MrAllBiz.com
     
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    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    oooh...that's what i was looking for....sweet. hopefully i can figure out the crap on it.
     
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    Stevenson Old School

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    My assistant built my whole site - her fees are very reasonable. If you are interested, shoot me a PM. Maybe even just for a lesson...
     
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    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    sure, i'm in LA though.....
     
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    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    Saw your assistant's website, good stuff. A lot of the stuff I do as some of my side consulting gigs....good stuff there too....
     
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    The_Lillard_King Westside

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    very cool sight . . . impressive.

    I just paid a local guy to help me with my site. I wish I knew about your assistant before cutting him the check.
     
  13. AgentDrazenPetrovic

    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    are you getting good hits out of that site? it looks very nice, lots of good tips and stuff.
     
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    Stevenson Old School

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    Yes, it gets decent traffic, especially given that I don't do a lot or marketing of it, other than getting good links in. Thanks for the kind words.

    The best thing I did was to start blogging - its original content (I usually write for others), and the SEO is strong. I get more hits from searches from that than anything.

    I use my assistant pretty much on a virtual basis and it works just fine, btw.
     
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    AgentDrazenPetrovic Anyone But the Lakers

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    yeah, I have my own VA and I pay her $5 an hour. Doesn't have quite the same set of skills though...but decent enough.

    :)
     
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    mook The 2018-19 season was the best I've seen

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    Google Page Rank: 5

    *drool*

    (Page rank isn't everything, but when you get above 4 you are doing a lot of things right. Wish I was there. Nice job.)
     
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    Stevenson Old School

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    Mook, what term did you search? We rarely rank that high on anything...
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    We were running WordPress MU at s2blogs.com for a while, but people rarely made use of it.

    I posted a poll in the Blazers' forum about vb3's blogs and there wasn't any interest either.

    Just a data point.
     
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    mook The 2018-19 season was the best I've seen

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    Ok, now I feel both jealous and annoyed. Nothing sucks worse than when the rich kid gets a piece of candy and he doesn't even know it's candy.

    Here's an explanation of Pagerank:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

    Basically, it's a simple scale of N/A to 0 to 10. N/A means Google hasn't even noticed you. 0 means Google knows you exist, but you aren't that big. 10 means Google thinks you are one of the most important sites on the internet.

    RipCityTwo.com's home page is a 0.

    My site is a 3, after 15 months of work.

    CNN.com is a 10.

    Going from 0 to 2 is pretty easy. Getting to 3 is harder (at least it was for me). Every number up from there is a bitch, as far as I can tell.

    That you have a 5 and don't even know it makes me want to find out where you live and spray purple and gold all over your windshield.
     

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