Here are two core concepts regarding Search Engines, which need to be understood before developing a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plan. Spiders and Bots – Spiders, robots, and crawlers are programs that scour the web and catalog information about each URL they visit and store that data in massive, interconnected databases. How this data is …
I had the pleasure of meeting Blair Williams, at OpenCamp2010 in Dallas last August. He is the author of Pretty Link Pro, an expert in WordPress, SEO and PPC. He spoke on Supercharging your Blog’s Performance and man was it great! His two plugins, Pretty Link Pro and Mingle have been downloaded over 200,000 times …
Do you ever wonder if you are including everything you should in your blog posts? To maximize the effectiveness of your posts make sure you include most, if not all, of the following: Write a paragraph or two on a topic that is of interest to your site visitors. Where appropriate include the keywords you …
Just had to share these two high-performing Firefox extensions, both of which live neatly in the left-hand side of your tray. Colorzilla is an eyedropper style color picker for Firefox. This practical extension is great for quickly identifying the six digit hex code used throughout WordPress Themes. Measureit draws a ruler across any webpage to …
If you use WordPress as your primary web site you may have static pages on which you don’t want site visitors to add comments. Here is one fix (or hack), that might work in your theme, to edit the “Comments are closed” text that appears at the bottom of the page. From your left navigation …
I feel like I just found a hidden gem!! Incredibly hard to find, but necessary to know in order to identify pages to exclude from the “pages” sidebar widget. 1) Go to edit pages (from the drop down pages menu, on left, in your admin back-end) and MOUSE over each page link. 2) Look down …
Clients often ask me, “Does it matter who I host my website with ?” Yes! Especially if your site has the potential to receive massive amount of traffic. For example ecommerce sites, or popular sites like the one run by Dallas WordPress Blogger DB Ferguson who entertains her readers with the delightful No Fact Zone, …