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Frugal Confessions said:

Hello!

 

I think something you should add (and I am not techy in the LEAST, but have thought about doing this myself) is a random tip generator at the top of your blog. You can feed it with these tips, and eventually it will have 365 of them rotating around!

Any idea where I can get a random tip generator?

Thanks guys!

That's the part I don't know–where to find such a thing. Get Rich Slowly had one at the top of his website for awhile, but I just checked, and it is no longer there.

When/if you do find out about one, can you please email me? I think I'd still like to incorporate one on my own website. '

Thanks!

I've been trying to find something to do some random posts display but everything seems to be in the sidebar widget area and I haven't actually been able to get any of the plugins i've installed to work.

SPF – what are you trying to accomplish exactly?  If you have the
php-Exec plugin which allows you to insert PHP code in to any post,
page, or widget (my favorite plugin), a few lines of php could
accomplish what you are after.  When adding php you need to use the HTML
editor instead of the WYSIWYG editor.

So, if you want a
page that displays a randomly selected post of the 365 tips, I would do
something like this.  Have each of those 365 posts in a specific
category and then create a new page, say `Random Tip` and add something
like the below to that pages content.  Replace the X in cat=X with the correct category number.  Also, I am making this up and it is completley untested, but should be functional.

<?php

query_posts('posts_per_page=1&cat=X&orderby=rand');

while (have_posts()) : the_post();

echo '<h2>';

the_title();

echo '</h2>';

the_content();

endwhile;

wp_reset_query();

?>

I give up on trying to format it nicely in this editor here..  but you get the idea.  Grab a random post, display its title & content.

I truly like the idea.

If I may give you one piece of advice; try to focus on a specific keyword per tips. Since you are writing around 100 words, key word concentration will be pretty high and it should help you getting more attention from Google ;-)

For example, a while ago I wrote a 100 word article on Primerica First IPO. I targetted Primerica IPO as keywords and my post was rank #2 on Google for a week (I was ranking better than Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal ;-) ).

keep it up! your motivation will definitely bring something ;-)

Oh… if you want to guest post on a Ethic Dividend stock on The Dividend Guy Blog, i would be more than happy to publish your post ;-)

cheers,

Mike

Sustainable PF said:

The Financial Blogger said:

I truly like the idea.

 

If I may give you one piece of advice; try to focus on a specific keyword per tips. Since you are writing around 100 words, key word concentration will be pretty high and it should help you getting more attention from Google ;-)

 

For example, a while ago I wrote a 100 word article on Primerica First IPO. I targetted Primerica IPO as keywords and my post was rank #2 on Google for a week (I was ranking better than Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal ;-) ).

 

keep it up! your motivation will definitely bring something ;-)

 

Oh… if you want to guest post on a Ethic Dividend stock on The Dividend Guy Blog, i would be more than happy to publish your post ;-)

 

cheers,

 

Mike

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Thanks Mike.  I have tried to work on the keywords using Google AdWords as a tool.  It is hard tho as Mrs. SPF writes 5 of 7 tips and I haven't taught her how to research the keywords.  This means I go in afterward and edit a lot.  Also, a lot of our keywords aren't that popular or unique so we don't get a ton of SE juice.
 

I'll letcha know about the Dividend Guy Blog.  I loved the SRI series (and plan to write my own) but perhaps I could write a piece on some of the "green" or "SR" stiocks that have drawn my attention.  I worry about getting laughed out of your blog tho as i'm still a noob at investing myself and am likely looking at the wrong things, or in the wrong light!