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The Complete Guide to SEO on WordPress

July 30th, 2007

If you run a WordPress blog that relies on search engine traffic, it is important to put a little time and effort into improving the Search Engine Optimization of your blog. If you care about the optimization of your site, Jim Westergren has provided a well written Complete Guide to SEO for WordPress.
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Blogging Tip: Promote Your Content with FeedFlare

June 30th, 2007

Blogging, Web Design

Have you ever put a lot of really hard work into a post, then sat back and waited for the traffic to come pooring in, only to be disappointed with your relatively unnoticed post? Or maybe some of your best work goes unnoticed, while a post you spent 5-10 minutes writing gets dugg [...]

How To: Convert Your E-mail Feedburner Form to a Link

June 25th, 2007

Web Design

If you run a blog or website, you probably have a Feedburner account that you use to manage your site’s RSS feed. Once you’ve signed up and gone through the process to “burn” your own feed, you’ll be given a feed URL to give to potential subscribers. This part is easy, but Feedburner [...]

Top 10 Web Development Extensions for Firefox

June 13th, 2007

Web Browsers, Web Design

I’ve always found that most web developers seem to use the Firefox web browser as their browser of choice, and for good reason.Â It includes a lot of great tools, but also has some extremely useful Firefox extensions to go with it.Â Â Â Here isÂ my list of the Top 10 web development extensions for Firefox users:

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Google Allows You To Check Your Robots.txt

May 21st, 2007

SEO, Web Design

Having a good Robots.txt file is an important part of optimizing your website with search engines. The problem is that it can take two weeks for the search engines to reflect your changes to your Robots.txt file in their search results, so it is important to know if you’ve made correct changes as soon [...]

Examining the Paid Links Economy

April 19th, 2007

Web Design

Last week I talked a little bit about paid links and the “no follow” wars between the search engines and advertisers buying paid links (such as Text Link Ads). Google Blogoscoped has taken this a step further, doing a full examination of the paid links economy.
Many bloggers and other website owners around the world [...]