Google recently released a list of the 1000 most-visited sites on the web and I’m happy to announce that my sites are nowhere near the list. Ok here are the top 10 as of May 29, 2010.

1. facebook.com
2. yahoo.com
3. live.com
4. wikipedia.org
5. msn.com
6. microsoft.com
7. blogspot.com
8. baidu.com
9. qq.com
10. mozilla.com

Here’s the complete list if you’re curious, but don’t get any hopes up.

I’ve been running Thesis on my blogs for the last year or so. With the upgrade of Thesis 1.7 and its built-in SEO features, it’s due time to get rid of my all time favorite All-in-One-SEO WordPress plugin to reduce clutter and redundancy on my server.

Less clutter is good but at the same time it introduces a new problem. All my SEO-friendly meta tags are stuck in All-in-One-SEO-made fields in my database. To continue to use them I need to port the values to Thesis values.

Gladly, for every problem there’s a solution.

I hope you have access to your webserver’s control panel. From there fire up phpMyAdmin and select your WordPress database. Then hit the SQL tab and run the following SQL query on your database. Please don’t forget to first backup your database. I won’t be responsible for any loss.

PS: this is for All-in-One-SEO version 1.6 and up only.

insert wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
select post_id, concat('thesis_', substring(meta_key,10)), meta_value
from wp_postmeta where meta_key in ('_aioseop_title','_aioseop_description','_aioseop_keywords');

When you’re done, you can go to your WordPress Dashboard and disable All-in-One-SEO from your plugin list. You could also delete it if you like.

For those of you who don’t use Thesis, I strongly recommend keeping All-in-One-SEO because it really kicks ass. It’s just done its time in my case and I need to say good-bye.

If you haven’t heard the buzz Facebook recently released their Social Plugins. In their words:

Social plugins let you see what your friends have liked, commented on or shared on sites across the web. All social plugins are extensions of Facebook and are specifically designed so none of your data is shared with the sites on which they appear.

Out of many different choices, the Like button is my favorite. First it looks nice and clean as you can see below this post. Second it gives you instant promotion. Everytime a user clicks on it your post link will be posted on his/her Facebook profile.

Are you sold yet? Ok here’s how to add it on your blog. Just copy and paste this block of code under your post template:

<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=530&amp;height=60&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:530px; height:60px”></iframe>

And you’re done. You can modify the settings here if you need to customize it. And if you have problems feel free to comment below and I will try to help you.

For the few of you that still read my blog, you probably noticed the recent design change. While I’m dumbing things down around here, a user experience experiment is actually underway. This blog will serve as my playground for the testing stages until things are set for my other production (read: money making) blogs.

To cut this short so I won’t bore you with little details (which is one of my expertise), these are what I have been doing in the past few days:

1. Playing with Thesis
Why Thesis? Because it simply works. Before Thesis I had to handcode everything. Now all I need to do is write little code snipplets here and there to make the blog fit my design and Thesis takes care of the rest. Even on-page SEO.

2. Adding the Facebook Like Button
I like the simplicity of the Facebook Like Button so much I figured I should have it here. Now you can Like my posts and they will instantly show up on your Facebook profile. Kick ass huh? You can find instructions here if you want to do it too.

3. Intense Debate

Intense Debate allows you to comment with your existing Facebook, Twitter, OpenID, or WordPress.com credentials so you don’t have to type things in anymore. It also adds user interactivity with user ratings, comment replies, etc. Not that commenting is all that around here but I figured if I had a better system maybe people would start to actually comment on this blog. Or not. Either way if this system works then this will definitely improve interactivity on my other blogs.

4. WP Greet Box
Why even bother? Because unlike me, most people like to be greeted and acknowledged. This plugin does just that. Whether you find this blog through Google, Flickr, Twitter, or anywhere else, you’ll be pleased that I have a personalized greet for you on the landing pages.

That’s all for today folks. Please browse around and try the new features if you have a minute.

two months and two posts ago, i wrote about peepculture getting a facelift. well guess what, i’ve done it again. i felt that it was necessary to revamp the design again to accommodate our new focus: gifts for men. but that’s not all. peepculture is also about mens fashion, import models (because we know men just can’t have enough of them), lifestyle and entertainment. i’m currently working on our content structure and direction, but soon i will be launching a massive seo and marketing campaign to shoot this blog to the skies. so please check it out, and don’t forget to stop by and share me your thoughts in the comments.