Creating dynamic page titles by modifying the post title name in WordPress

As many of you know, the default installation of WordPress will leave a static page title in IE or FireFox –for that matter, any browser.  For example, for this post, the title could be Rich Sage Make Money Wisdom > WordPress Post Title Modification.

However, the idea page title would be: WordPress Post Title Modifications - Rich Sage Make Money Wisdom.

It’s wonderful that in the WP admin this title can be changed under the “options” tab, but what’s not so handy is that the first part of the tittle will never change in default mode.  The latter part will change to the post name.

There is a simple correction to this issue, by putting the post name first in the php file that controls this information.

Here is how you can modify the Post Title display in WordPress:

Enter the hosting and wp-content folder >>  themes >> your theme folder.

Then look for the “header.php” file and this line of code:

<title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

Replace the above code with the below:  Keep in mind that you can insert your own text into the code by putting it between ‘ and ‘ . You can also insert text after the “<” and “>” statements.

<title><?php wp_title(’ ‘); ?><?php if(wp_title(’ ‘, false)) { echo ‘ ‘; } ?> - <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></title>

Doing this is essential because it now gives the search engines an accurate method to capture the dynamic name of each page that you write.  This will great aide your goals of building traffic.

Success with your own WordPress blog!

Rich Sage

There is no question about it, the economy is contracting. What is happening now is similar to what happened in Japan in the 90’s –after massive consumption and ‘easy money’ (and a good dose of corruption) there is no more room for the economy to keep growing in an healthy manner. People are afraid, and the economy starts to contact. The US will go through a period of that, in the coming months. Unless spending is brought under control, the mess will get worse.  This is an essay on how to make some preparations for that as you work on your plan to make money at home.

Here are some sobering news items on what is happening: AN ECONOMY of MERCY…

Today I’ll discuss major and minor steps you can take to save a lot of money and headache, as you build your dream business online.

New Poster Child for Corporate Blunders

Back in the 90’s there was good’ol Nick Leeson, lead trader at Barings Bank that took a trading account minus $2 Billion and managed to hide it for a few good months.  Then everything caught up with him.

It’s rather interesting that Nick Leeson is now a speaker and seems to be advising people on “Stress Management” –something that he handed out very well while at work at Barings Bank!

It’s announced today that he’s handed his batton to a new leader at the insurance and financial giant Societe Generale, the French behemoth.  Now there is a new role model in the game and this time the stakes are just a tad bit higher. The institution needs to “write off” $7.2 Billion dollars to offset the losses of its rogue trader who has admitted to the scandal.

At this time there is no announcement regarding the name of the nice guy or gal.  I’ll make no assumptions here.  What I found incredible was the the massive fraud was uncovered over the weekend. And in today’s announcement, the French Financial giant said “We are in the process of dismissing the Paris-based trader” –So, after 5 days of knowing it and after the trader admitted the problems, they are in the process of firing the guy.  Nice pace.

This goes to a post I made a while back at my investment site, NEXT SuperStock >> –where is all this money coming from and where does all this money go?  If the trader “lost” the money, it has to go somewhere.  Basically, the trader made a bet, and lost.  That means there is a winner somewhere else.  So, while there was a loss at Societe Generale, there was a considerable gain to an underwriter of securities.

The next item is even more incredible:  The bank will “write off” said amount they lost.  Write off?  What a convenient term to say that “We * (insert you favorite derogatory term) up, bigtime!”

If you ask me, it seems that the capacity to make blunders are facilitated by the ease in which people are allowed to manage money.  It’s all “easy come, easy go” and the poor working people pay for all these blunders, made by Presidents down to coprorate money managers –the price is paid off the working backs, of common, decent working people, as they slave away from day to day earning a living.

It seems to me that the “hardships” need to be endured by these corporate CEO’s and traders on a regular basis to understand how tough it is to make the money in the first place.  Perhaps, only then will they take the responsiblity and not gamble with it.

Rich Sage

Highly Effective, One-Way Links to RichSage.Com from Hundreds of Sites.

One of the ways that I wanted to expand the traffic to RichSage.COM was to use the “Author Resources Box” that’s at the bottom of nearly all articles to generate more traffic to the Rich Sage. In order to accomplish that I’ve created an account at JetSubmitter >>, a service that takes my article and spins it (JetSpinner) and then the submitter publishes it to over 450 article sites. I talked about the process a while back and I mentioned that I’d return with an update.

I have not ’spun’ any of my articles as the elaborate process to do it is not worth my time.  While I do a mechanical process to directories that I really don’t care much about, when it comes to the leading article directories on my list, I create a custom, well written article.

Rich Sage Traffic Building Update for January 2008 after just Two Months of Work

During the fall of 2007, I started to focus on traffic. By that time the domain RichSage.COM was just 6 months old, the setup stuff –blog, forum, pages, membership, etc., etc. were all current and running. I then turned to building traffic. Here is my first post on the subject as I exercised some plans.

Following that, I kept doing the nearly daily work writing, publishing –usually to Digg and Sphinn. Then I followed up with articles to a few directories. That has kept the incoming links growing. As the chart shows (It’s like a Golf Game –lower the score, better the outcome!) the rank keeps improving! I started at over a million. Then cut that half, and now that in half. My next goal is to reach less than 100,000. That a measure against over a billion blogs and various web properties. I want to rank less than 100,000, which I am looking at reaching in March of 2008. That I think is the easy part. Cutting that in half a few more times is the *real* work!

Rich Sage E-book Creation and Distribution Lessons

As part of my ongoing series on the creation of an e-book, I wanted to discuss these 3 elements:

• Protection of the e-book from those who’ll copy it.
• Initial sales process
• Lastly, the best sales channel

There are a few considerations that a writer has to make regarding the decisions publishing an e-book, apart from content. The first of those is if there is any type of copy protection at all –to protect people from just sharing it as a download. Or even something as simple as sending it via e-mail to a friend.

Naturally, the e-book will be copy protected with an ISBN number. However, the other “copy” that I am discussing is the duplication of a digital file.

There is really no way to protect it for certain.

Sure, I could protect the e-book with a password, but, then the problem is that people forget the password and will e-mail me to find out. Others will probably find the copy protection and password a good target for an exercise of “brute force” where the protection is broken.

Here is my solution. My e-book is just an introduction to my business solutions, success plan and the lessons that I teach everyone. Even if someone copies the ideas, it really does very little to them without going to my membership area. The value of the e-book is perhaps, what the reader paid for it, but the value of the free membership access is at least 10 TIMES or more! I plan to keep it that way, and keep adding “value” to the membership area.

In the Rich Sage Membership Area I’ll present the rest of the lessons and the links, examples –all the details that the reader needs to know.

The other problem is an outright copy of the e-book. Well, that may occur, but with my Rich Sage writing style, my life’s philosophy, I doubt just any “Joe Blow” can copy it.

Rich Sage’s 11 Elements to a Best Selling E-Book

It’s rather presumptuous of me to proclaim and blurt out 11 elements of a powerful and even “best selling” e-book, when I have yet to publish such a product. However, after mulling for 3 years on various subject ideas and writing a few shorter e-books, I feel that I’ve hit upon something that’s very powerful in my e-book that I am about to release. Let me discuss that and the many other aspects of an e-book that I am publishing this month, via ClickBank.

Content: First of all this obviously is the most important -the content of the e-book. My content is special because I’ve addressed the issues that help people build a business while keeping costs *very low* –as low as possible. In fact, my advice to readers is to never spend more than $100 starting an online business, and always reaching cash flow in the first month of work. The $100 start up costs include the cost of the e-book! The rest of the content keeps going with the cost cutting theme, and not trying to “buy your way into business lessons” and hoping one of them will resonate enough to start doing.

My advice is quite different –get started with a good idea and what’s around –mainly free software and then address the issues that are needed to grow. In fact, when cash flow is there and money is spent on lessons, that is an investment in the business and a business expense. However, if you are BUYING endless lessons and cash flow has gone nowhere, that is DEBT –usually, personal debt.

Linking: I decided not to throw a whole bunch of links all over the place. Instead, I’ll limit the number of links I’ll have in the content so that readers can focus. I am moving the links area to a resource chapter at the end of the e-book. The resource area will also need constant updates. Thus, it will be duplicated in the free membership download area so that readers can acquire the latest copy and have up-to-date links.

Designing Rich Sage E-books: It’s time to update one e-book as well as extend it to the next level, by selling a more advanced version.

Several months ago I tested publishing an E-book that’s available free at RichSage.COM. Now I want to update that e-book, finish writing a “more advanced” version of it and put it up for sale on Clickbank. >>

I’ll review the entire setup, writing and finally, selling process as I take this e-book from just and idea to publishing it.

Well, the first part of setting up an e-book for sale is to write a title and get the subject matter ready. I cannot disclose here all the chapters and materials, but I’ll say this –My objective by writing this e-book is to show people –any online Entrepreneur how to get started for practically nothing their own business and start making an income with in a few days.

The e-book will take the reader through my learning process, and what I’ve applied and what has worked. I’ll review all the programs that I use to manage my network, and lastly, I’ll present a last part of the e-book as an introduction to my marketing network, which the buyer can use to monetize their own online success goals.

Since the book is by the Rich Sage, I’ll also have to present a part about the timeless wisdom that I espouse with regard to business success online.

So, with out further delay, let me get started…

11 Ways to Finance Your Business, Creatively, by Cutting Costs!

The Internet is a perfect place to start a business for FREE. And often the information to start any type of business is also free via a few forums. The Warrior and Digital Point forums come to mind. However, having some savings at the start of any business helps accomplish two valuable and priceless positions: Self confidence and flexibility –which are vital to long-term success.

Let’s first address where you can find money to build your business: First the consumption end of things.

• Cut costs –do you really need another latest, greatest model of something? Be it a pair of shoes or even the latest type of car, just sit back a moment or even take a month or two and ask yourself –Do I really need it? Most likely you don’t. Consider a car –only about 5% of the world has one. And if your kids are begging for one, just ask them to go out and get a job. I am sure that you will see on an annual scale, you can save around a $1,000.00 (just to start) by cutting things that you really don’t need. Or about $80.00 per month.
• Stop using credit cards –I have gotten rid of all credit cards. I am down to a couple of debit cards. There was a time when a credit card was needed for things like car rentals. That’s no longer the case. I am looking for a good corporate credit card, but again, that’s corporate money. I have a justification for spending it. Personally, I have cut back a lot and will keep doing so until I am established in my business plan. How much interest do you pay? How much interest do you pay on things that you didn’t need? Savings per month? $50.oo, at least.
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Rich Sage’s 2008 Car of the Year!

Well, it’s a bit early to proclaim the 2008 car of the year, but I am pretty sure that the Tesla Roadster >> is going to be able to handle that position for the rest of the year.

The internal combustion engine is finally at it’s end.  I think we reached that tipping point in 2007, after several false starts.  Now the car industry, and several small start-ups are finally coming out with performance cars that can make every teen with a drivers license drool.  I was such a person a few years ago. I had my eyes on a Corvette and still do.  Every American kid does, I think –at least the guys I hung out with did…  It’s still the working mans’ sports car.But, the “times are changing” and unless General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz comes up with some kind of radical change to a Corvette in the next few years, I’ve found my ride:  The Tesla Roadster, assuming that I have enough head room.  The Corvette bearly does!

It’s incredible what the Tesla Roadster can do:

• All electric car
• 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds
• Gets the equivalent of 135 MPG (about $0.02 per mile)
• Two gears! One to 65 mph, and two going up to 135 — cool!
• Obviously, it has a lot less parts than a car with an internal combustion engine
• The car uses a special battery pack that has a few thousand AA-size lithium ion cells.
• Recharging times are as few as 3.5 hours!  And that can be via your own solar station.

Overall, I am sure that it’ll have some debut issues, but it looks like they’ve designed and built things almost as a custom car, so, I doubt a mass production problem exists.

It will be nice to see these out on the streets and herleding in a new generation of transportation!

GO TESLA!

Rich Sage