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.
You can see the mobile version of LiewCF.com when you visit using mobile devices, or goto http://m.liewcf.com (yes, CNAME subdomain supported!).

The mobile site design is a bit dull but it works. The page loading speed is fast, images are automatically resized and optimized. There are Twitter share and Facebook share icon on each mobile post. But the Twitter share link (Tweetmeme) is not working.

Want to make money on your mobile site? MobStac B! allows you to add your AdSense publisher ID to display advertisements on your mobile site. Again, I don’t get it to display payable ads (only Google Public Service Ads).

MobStac B! account has a simple traffic analytics showing you the daily mobile traffic, average views per day and total mobile site views.

MobStac B! is now Public Beta. Sign up now!

This is a *free* product review with honest write-up. If you are interested to submit your products for review, please write to lcf@liewcf.com

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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.

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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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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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You need to get a free WordPress.com API key to install the Automattic Stats for your self-hosted WordPress blogs.

After installing Automattic Stats (or WordPress.com stats), you will get a “Global Dashboard” link under WordPress.com Blog Stats on your WordPress dashboard.

Clicking the link will lead you to WordPress.com Global Daskboard(dashboard.wordpress.com) where you can get the Blog Stats of your self-hosted WordPress blog.

The WordPress.com Stats will take a few minutes before it can display your first stats report. Here is sample screenshot of WordPress.com Blog Stats report:

Beside a flash graph of last 30 days traffic, the statistics report also shows referrers, top posts, search engine terms, clicks, and incoming links.

Another feature of WordPress.com Stats is that it does not record stats of logged in WordPress users (you!). Don’t need to worry your own visits will generate inaccurate traffic report.

My two cents

I have many web statistics for my blog, do I need another? While we have detail stats like Google Analytics, Automattic Stats (WordPress.com Stats) has a simple and straight forward report.

I will use Automattic Stats for daily traffic review and other complex stats such as Google Analytics for weekly review. However, I wish Automattic Stats can be integrated into my own blog dashboard.

Download Automattic Stats and tell me what do you think about it!

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Image: update author adsense options

I would say Author AdSense is a simplified version of AdSense Revenue Sharing System plugin.

[via Weblog Tools Collection]

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But, my site was not accessible just now due to a Bad Behavior plugin error:
[html]Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bb2_db_date() in /home/liewcf/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior-wordpress.php on line 50[/html]
Disabled the plugin, site back to normal. Not sure what caused the error. No contact information on the new Bad Behavior site.

Did you experience the same error?

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