How to Change Default WordPress Excerpt Length

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Default wordpress excerpt length is 55 words. It’s easy to change the default excerpt length in wordpress in less than 2 minutes to desired length. I made changes to wordpress 2.9.2 code.

  1. Login into Directory where wordpress is installed
  2. Open the file Directory > wp-includes > formatting,php
  3. Search for 55 or $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 55);
  4. Change the value 55 to desired number of words and save the file.
  5. Refresh the page and see the results ( you may have to clear the cache)

How to Get Organic Google Traffic using Google Buzz

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How to use Google Buzz to get Organic Google Search Traffic? Just follow the steps below.

Organic Traffic from Google Buzz

Combining Google’s 3 powerful features

  • Results from people in your social circle for “search phrase”
  • Cookies that remembers your search preferences
  • Google Buzz Network (Followers)

So, you have a blog and you want to drive more traffic to your blog.

  1. Building Buzz Followers Network
  2. Link Buzz status updates to blogs post updates through Twitter ( Blog to Twitter to Buzz).
  3. Post Buzz to as Public.
  4. Status updates will be will be indexed by Google.
  5. If your followers searches for similar phrase, it will be displayed in organic search results under “Results from people in your social circle”
  6. Results will be displayed in Twitter Real Time Search (very likely)

If you already have huge list of contacts, it’s easy to get followers, else start building your followers.

Send Tweets via Email Using TweetyMail

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tweetymailAnil Chawla – friend of mine has created this cool Twitter App called TweetyMail, eMail to Twitter Posting App. It allows you to tweet straight from your email inbox, without switching to new window or Twitter App.

How it Works

To get started, click the “Sign in with Twitter” button below. After signing in, tweetymail simply needs to know your email address. You can then tweet and use Twitter by sending emails to tweetymail. You can also set up tweetymail to automatically forward tweets, mentions, and Twitter search results to your email.

Features

  • Very fast and easy to tweet from a mobile phone. You can attach pictures and include links, and it will automatically shorten URLs.
  • Automatically receive email alerts when someone mentions you on Twitter. You can create email alerts for other tweets and searches too.
  • Send and reply to direct messages on Twitter using email.
  • Follow/unfollow users by sending or forwarding emails.
  • Full support for all languages (as long as emails are sent using UTF-8 character encoding)
  • It’s really like a full-featured Twitter client that works through email.

So, what do you think of TweetyMail? Ready to give it a try?

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