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WordPress Title Glitch

Have you seen this on your own blog? You create a blog post and then when you publish it and click on the title of the post to see the separate post page you get a message saying the post cannot be found? What causes that? How can you fix it?

First remember that blogs communicate in the world of HTML and each blog post is really an entry in a database. When you use special characters in your blog post title sometimes you mess of the database preventing WordPress from being able to find the post to return it on its own page.

Here are some of the characters that we know cause this to happen: …   –   &

If this happens to you, you cannot just go in and fix the title, the damage has been done. You will need to delete the blog post and totally re-enter it in WordPress.

So if you have been mystified over when and why this happens, now you know!

Have you seen other characters do this on your blog? Leave me a list below to share your knowledge so we can all stay away from those characters too.

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You Really Must Use American Speaking Ghost Bloggers

Here is an excellent case in point. I just got this email in my inbox. I have not edited a single thing, just changed the names and removed the links.

Hi ,
We are Dhxxxxj and Hxxa (names changed to protect their identity from ridicule by Nancy McCord) from Bangalore , India . We work from home as a full time bloggers.
We started blogging since sept2006. We have around 7 blogs on which we write the posts.

Please find the list below

URL list removed to protect the innocent clients who have bought their services

Please let us know if you have any writing opportunities
Thanks
thanks!

Man, that’s scary isn’t it. That could be your ghost blogger if you use just any firm or a possibly a low bidder from a resource like Elance.  I have highlighted the problems so you can tell at a glance where the errors are:

We are Dhxxxxj and Hxxxa from Bangalore , India . We work from home as a full time bloggers.

We started blogging since sept2006. We have around 7 blogs on which we write the posts.

Not only is grammar wrong, spacing is wrong and verb usage is wrong. If you want to spend a lot of time rewriting your blog posts you could pay about $5 a post to get this kind of content. Better yet, you could hire my firm where we employ only American speaking professional college educated writers. 

Many of our writers have college degrees, some several years of college, some that are just short of graduating, and some with higher level college degrees. Sure, you will pay more, but you will not have to waste your time correcting your blog posts, you will build readership because people will understand your message, your blog posts will make a positive impression about your company’s professionalism, and on top of that you will have well written engaging content. The choice is yours.

Find out more about our American speaking premium level ghost blogging program.

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Best Practice for Posting Twitter to Facebook

I’ve been doing some testing on the best practices for feeding your Twitter posts to your Facebook status, and I have some new recommendations for you.

First, I post much more frequently on Twitter than anywhere else. Twitter followers are used to this and conversations there are a stream of consciousness back and forth. The Facebook and LinkedIn worlds are different. You can easily lose followers by feeding your Twitter status directly to Facebook and be confused by friends as spamming them with status updates. It is just too much information for Facebook, but the interaction is what grows your network on Twitter.

This is what I do, first I stopped feeding my Twitter status through Facebook with the Twitter application I had installed before. Now I use two applications and select when I update Facebook and LinkedIn. I use TweetDeck and choose to send my status to Facebook about once or twice a day tops. Then I use Ping.fm to send a status update one more time to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and FriendFeed. By turning off the Facebook Twitter application, now only when I want to my status moves to Facebook using TweetDeck – a much more user friendly plan to not alienate Facebook users with the volume of posts that an active Twitter user will typically generate.

Ping.fm is an excellent tool if you want to feed your status to LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Facebook and Twitter all at the same time. I am finding that typically I will have both TweetDeck open and Ping.fm open throughout the day. Now if Ping.fm will just allow me to schedule posts.  You can create posting groups, but I have not figured out if Ping.fm will schedule posts yet.

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Google Wave Is It The Next Big Thing?

You can sign up for early access to Google Wave here.  What is Google Wave? Well to me, it looks like Twitter-Google.com-AOL IM-Flkr-Facebook all rolled into one interface. You can read what Google says about it and see screen shots on the Google website for the application.

To me it looks like the next generation of social networking and team collaboration using many of the same applications that we use separately right now. I am thinking that Google should call it Gitter or maybe GFace, or how about Instant G. But no-o-o-o, they have named it Google Wave.

Well I will be riding the crest of the “Wave” when it is released and will keep you posted about this revolutionary new web application that will be out later this year.

The application is being created in part by the same team that has been responsible for Google Maps. With Google Friend Connect, Google is really looking to break into the social networking phenomena and now with Google Chrome in place Google Wave may just be the application that will be positioned to be the tidal wave that will crash the competition in the social networking field.