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After you changed the WordPress permalink structure, it is important to make sure all old links are redirected to the new links, so that you do not lose your visitors who follow the old links.

Read: Better SEO Page Title for WordPress

I use Google Webmaster Tools to check the 404 File Not Found Error for missing page links. There were hundreds of missing links when I checked. Not good.

After a search on WordPress Plugin Directory, I found the “Change Permalink Helper“. It is a simple plugin (with no configuration) but works very well.

If a link to your site is not found, the plugin will find the post according to the slug and make a permanent redirect (301) to the new location.

Note: The database search for missing posts will add some workload to your site but, trust me, it is worth every single bit!

Related book: SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World’s Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)

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MobStac B! is a free service to turn your blog into a mobile-friendly site. It takes your blog’s feed URL and convert it to a mobile site which is compatible to almost ANY mobile devices, regardless smartphone or feature phone.

I am one of the closed beta member of MobStac B! (B for Blog). The setup is extremely easy. Simply submit blog URL and customize the mobile site (title, header image, tagline) and you are done!

MobStac B! not only supports almost any blogging platform (as long as your have a blog feed), also has a WordPress plugin for native integration.
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Akismet 2.1.2 anti-spam comment plugin has been released. The new version added comment type filters to separate comments and Pingbacks.

With the sub-navigation, you can choose to see only comments, pingbacks, or all. For developers, it has a new hook for other plugins to add more tabs to the sub-navigation.

So far, there is no plugin that “hooks” with Akismet 2.1. We can expect some other antispam plugins using the feature.

Generally, no new function in the new version, Akismet still works good to filter out spam comments from your blogs. Yes, it is still free.

akismet, antispam, plugin, wordpress

One of the most wanted feature about Automattic Stats for Self-Hosted WordPress Blogs is loading the stats report inline at our own blog’s dashboard, instead of redirect to WordPress.com. It has been addressed in the version 1.1 to load the stats in an iframe on your own blog dashboard.

Download WordPress.com Stats plugin

If you do not have a WordPress.com API key yet, read: How to get a WordPress.com API Key?

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I was asking for AuctionAds plugin in my Auction Ads review. Virtual Marketing Blog created the first AuctionAds WordPress Plugin — Easy AuctionAds.

Image: Easy AuctionAds options

Easy AuctionAds plugin allows you to add AuctionAds into blog post by adding a custom tag. The AuctionAds layout and format can be set on Option page. It means you can only have one ad format at one time. The plugin installation requires to edit WordPress internal file (general-template.php), which I do not recommend to newbies.

It would be nice if the plugin allows users to set a few of different ad layouts like AdSense Deluxe did.

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