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hI everyone. As part of my new tour and changes to my site, I am adding a blog update section. Wordpress needs to be reinstalled, so I thought I would ask these questions first so everything is setup correctly:

1) How best to setup the blog ( permlinks) for best SEO?

2) How to display 'sniplets' of my blog are shown on my tour, and then the links then redirect to the join page ( vs going the full blog)?

3) How best to setup to work with Nats codes?

I could use assistance on this, as this is the final item I need to address before launching my new tour.

Thanks for the help!

Bump needed!

the blog is for members only?

Maybe, I haven't decided that. But I do want the text that I use on the tour to go to the join page, but to look like a blog entry to link to the join page at this time.

i see. i ask because though you should use good permalink structure, a blog thats not accessible by the search engines wont do much SEO good.

you can pull the text from your blog posts to any PHP capable page. the amount of code required depends on if the page can call in wordpress variables/functions. look up "The Loop" on wordpress.org. You could also change your "read more" links to be hardcoded or at least spoofed to your join page, i'm sure with nats codes as well. again for that i say go to wordpress.org and search through their documentation and support forums. the things you're trying to do have been done several of times

If you want to do something like a hosted blog which can handle the affiliate NATS codes, you will need to order the Morphing Feeds plugin (see sig) :2 cents:

1) Don't worry so much with permalinks... you'll need them because of plugins, but page name wise it's better to keep it short and simple. Let the h1/title and links coming in define what the page is about.

However, I use: /%postname%-%post_id% or /%postname%_%post_id% for most sites. Some of my blogs, I use /%postname%_%post_id%.html - I find the first two examples give you less issues with plugins vs the .html example, but I like the .html look the most.

2) The best way would be to write your own code to pull the information from the db directly. (should be able to find php samples in google) Second option is to use the rss feed and php5, parse the feed directly on your tour. (google has samples of this too) Third option is create a blank template with a real include of the wp header, put the content loop in the file, put it as a page and include it into your tour, style it from the tours css file.

For the last option, the 2nd tip on this page does the template style you need. http://www.adultwebmasterskills.com/...-blog-166.html

3) http://wiki.toomuchmedia.com/index.p...rdpress_Plugin