Anyway, after I posted last night, I continued my search for the answer. I watched video after video teach me how to place thumbnails on my home page next to the excerpts of my posts.

Then, I found it. This videos’ narrator mentioned, in the most off-handed way, that there is some glitch in the Lifestyle 4.0 theme. That if you enter the entire URL of the image nothing will show up except a repeat of your post title.

That was exactly what had been happening to me. She said to just input the directory and file name where I had the file stored.

So, instead of entering;

http://www.yourdomain.com/images/thumbnail.jpg

you would enter;

/images/thumbnail.jpg

Well, I can’t tell you the relief I felt when I tried it and refreshed the blog.

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Anyone who knows about building blogs and has seen any of the blogs I’ve built will not be surprised to hear that the Studiopress Lifestyle theme is my favorite. In fact, I love it so much that I’ve been using the same version for over a year. And, even though two new versions have come out since I stared, because I’m not a huge fan of change, I’ve stuck with the 2.0 version.

But, this post is not about how great the theme is. It’s about how great it’s not. Let me explain.

A few days ago I finally broke down and got the 4.0 version. I read about it and even saw a couple of videos about it and so, kicking and screaming, I got myself a copy.

Well, I am currently working on the second blog I’ve tried to build with Studiopress Lifestyle 4.0 and I gotta tell you, I’m not lovin’ it. In fact, the first blog I tried to build with it, I needed to finish in a hurry because it was for a customer so halfway through it, I trashed the whole thing and started over again with 2.0.

The blog I’ve been working on today does not have a time limit so I thought I’d take my time and learn about the new theme. I’ve found one problem so far and I cannot get past it. Unless one of my readers can tell me how to fix this, I’ll no doubt be giving up on 4.0 entirely.

Here’s the problem;

It’s with the thumbnails on the front page. The little pictures next to each article? In 2.0 you could create a custom field for each post and put up a unique thumbnail for each one. But, if you have too many posts, or just don’t feel like it, you can simply upload a default thumbnail and if you don’t define a unique thumbnail for a post, the default will automatically show up.

Enter Studiopress Lifestyle 4.0. If I don’t enter a unique thumbnail for a post, nothing shows up on the home page! Even though I uploaded my default thumbnail, the new theme doesn’t care. Either I enter the URL to a thumbnail or I get nothin’.

What’s up?

If I’m right and this is, in fact, a change in the theme, I think it’s definitely a negative. But, I’m more inclined to think that I’m making a mistake somehow. Missing something maybe.

I’ve searched the web for something about this issue and found nothing. Nothing! So, I”m turning to my readers, all seven of them. LOL.

No, seriously, if you’ve got any experience or pearls of wisdom to share about this issue with Studiopress Lifestyle 4.0, I’d love to hear from you. Even if it’s just to agree with me and vent about it! I’d at least like to know I’m not alone.

If you’ve been doing any kind of reading about link building, then you’ve probably seen people mentioning “nofollow” and “dofollow” links. These are very important terms to understand when you are trying to build great links back to your site in order to increase your search engine rankings. But, to the person who is new to all of this, it may be kind of confusing. I am going to help break it down for you.

The coding for a link includes the HTML tag, the URL the link will be going to, the text that will be shown on the webpage for that link, and the closing HTML tag.

You are able to add more HTML to the code in order to tell the search engine spiders whether or not you want them to follow the link when crawling your website. You may be thinking… “Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site?” This is a very valid concern, which I will address further down. First, I am going to show you how to modify the HTML in order to tell the search engine spiders to crawl a link or not.

To tell the spiders to crawl a link, you don’t have to do anything. Simply place a normal link and the search engine spiders will crawl the link provided.

To tell the spiders to NOT crawl a link, you need to add the following code to the HTML code:

rel="nofollow"

Basically, there is no true “dofollow”, it is just NOT using the “nofollow” tag. Pretty simple, eh? (No, I am not Canadian… well, kind of.)

Why does this matter?
When you are using different methods (hopefully from this site) in order to build links on other websites to increase your search engine rankings you need to determine if the websites you are attempting to get your site listed on use the “nofollow” tag or not. If they do, it may still be a good idea to try to get that link there, but it is generally regarded as not the best use of time since the search engines don’t follow that link and you don’t get any increase in search engine rankings from that link.

So, when you are looking for sites and blogs that you could leave your link on (through reciprocal links, commenting on a blog, directory submissions, buying links, etc) figure out if the links in the particular section of the site you are aiming for uses “nofollow” or not.

Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site? (Or, Why would I use “nofollow”?)

There are many reasons you would want to use the “nofollow” tag, such as:
1) Paid Links: This is recommended by Google. Essentially, your sites page rank give a small amount of rank juice to the sites you link to (which helps their search engine ranking, which is the purpose of link building, to get that juice from others). If you have a paid link on your site, it’s essentially buying a higher rank in Google. They don’t like that.

2) Maybe in your blog’s comment section (if using most blog software, this is automatic). It is up to you if you want your commentators to get link juice back to their site. It is personal preference.

3) When linking to major, very popular sites. If you are linking to google.com, yahoo.com, digg.com (the front page), cnn.com, or whoever else, they are already popular, so you might as well use “nofollow” since your link won’t make or break them.

I hope this has been helpful. Feel free to comment or use the contact link in the top right of the page if you have any questions about this, or any link building subject.

This post courtesy of InlineSeo.com.