Jan
29
2010
If you’ve read a lot about search engine optimization, you should know by now that link building is extremely important for your site. In fact, the link building concept is as old as SEO itself, because search engines have been using link analysis in their algorithm for a very long time.
By late 2001, Google was well on their way to claiming a dominant position in the search market, and everyone was looking for links. Because of the “link building arms race” that Google started back then, link building has changed a lot since 2001. Link building has become a discipline unto itself, and one short chapter isn’t enough. Bing has also been using a similar concept since 2009.
The first step in understanding link building is getting a sense of how the search engines see things. As explained in a previous article, all of the search engines use link analysis to help them determine page rankings and choose relevant pages.
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Jan
20
2010
2010 is the year Wordpress is going to dive into open source design. Here’s what you need to know if you want to get involved.
A list for all seasons: Wordpress developers have the wp-hackers mailing list to discuss core and plugin code. Sometimes UI/UX stuff comes up and gets discussed there, but there is a whole universe of discussion around navigation labels, gradients, button styling, templates, alignment, design in general and more. Designers need a list to call their own, and now we have one. You can sign up for the wp-ui list to discuss ways to improve the interface or user experience of WordPress, and to discuss progress on design-related projects for the open source project, like the design challenges we’re going to have.
Jan
12
2010
WordPress 2.9.1 has just been released. After over a million downloads of version 2.9 and lots of feedback from users all over the world, they are finally releasing WordPress 2.9.1.
This release addresses a handful of minor bugs as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosting services. If any of these issues is affecting you, I suggest to give 2.9.1 a try. Download this release directly from their site or upgrade automatically from your dashboard (Tools -> Upgrade menu).
Jan
6
2010
Canonical links are also known as “preferred links”. When search engines have to deal with duplicate content, they have to choose which link should be favored over all others that contain identical page content. Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, defined canonicalization on his blog as: “Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL when there are several choices“.
Content duplication is one of the most common issues(or challenges) webmasters and site owners must face. There are many different ways to deal with content duplication. The canonical link element is one of the methods used to resolve this issue. The canonical link element was recently endorsed by Google, Yahoo! and Bing.
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Jan
1
2010
Happy New year everyone! I hope you had a great week! 2010 is here and it will be a great year for Wordpress and everything involving this amazing Content Management System that is here to stay and to make the web a better place. As you may know, Wordpress was first thought as a Blogging platform. However it is now applied to E-commerce sites, business portals, personal sites, video, photography and tube websites, hosting sites with wpmu, just to name a few.
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Wordpress is no longer known as “just a blogging platform”. The job of theme designers is to style Wordpress for everyone and to make Internet sites look great and easy to browse. Amazing Free and Premium Wordpress themes will be released in 2010. Version 1.6.6 of Patagonia includes excerpts in the category and tags pages which shows a resume of each post and a link to the full article.
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Dec
25
2009
Directories are a very good place to submit your blog. These sites will send you targeted traffic and give you Authority. Web directories contain a collection of sites organized into categories and sub-categories and classified by niche.
The main difference between directories and search engines is that search engines use software (spider/crawler) with an algorithm to automatically index the web pages. However in a directory, web sites are organized into categories by people. If you have ever submitted to at least one directory and have checked the traffic to your site, you would have noticed that it is negligible comparing to the traffic coming through search engines. The advantage is that directories bring targeted traffic.
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Dec
21
2009
Great news today! WordPress development team just announced the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9. This version is named “Carmen” in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools -> Upgrade, or you can download the ZIP file from WordPress.org. You can also check a short video summarizing some of the cool things about the new version here.
The coolest new additions to this version are:
1.The first addition is amazing. It’s a global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete one of your posts or comments you can bring them back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete…
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