When you visit a blog, what do you look for? Good design, great photos? How about content? Without great content it’s pretty hard to get your readers to make return visits to your blog, even if you have an impeccable design. Luckily, there are some basic things that you can do to make your blog content better and possibly even get more links from readers who like what you’re blogging about. Here are some suggestions:
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Hidden Gallery Shortcode for WordPress
In: WordPress
7 Dec 2009*** Updated ***
Well, ok … it’s not a hidden tag, but it is a feature many of us aren’t aware of in WordPress.
I have seen many people on Twitter asking for a good Gallery plug-in for WordPress. Our choice for a plug-in would be NextGen. But, it occurred to me that many people don’t realize that WordPress has this feature built in already. It’s not the prettiest or the coolest gallery I have seen. But it does the job in a pinch.
The setup for a gallery is very easy. And inserting it into a post or page is done with a “shortcode”.
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10 Search Engine Optimization Myths
In: SEO
24 Nov 2009One reason that many individuals and organizations are reluctant to start an SEO project is lack of knowledge. Some are even reluctant to approach an SEO Service firm for fear of being “ripped off” or misdirected about the search engine requirements of their website.
It is always good to get as much knowledge about a topic before undertaking the project.
We understand that there are many myths about search engine optimization (SEO). This article will clarify the ten most common search engine optimization myths and misconceptions.
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SEO Analysis Tool: Beta Launch
In: SEO
22 Nov 2009One of the biggest hurdles we face as website owners is understanding how search engines see our websites.
This week, we’re looking to change that with the Beta Launch of our new Online SEO Analysis Tool.
We have developed an online Search Engine Optimization Analysis tool that any website owner can use. The result is a high level summary of how your website scores in three key areas; Technical Score, Popularity Score and SEO Score. The SEO Analysis Tool then calculates your websites incoming and outgoing links and provide you with an Overall SEO score. The higher the score, the better your website will rate in the search engines.
You have the option to Order and Download a full SEO Analysis report of your website’s SEO readiness. The report is quite detailed. You can download a sample report we ran on our site sometime ago before you decide to Order a report for your own site.
The SEO Analysis Reports are discounted for those of you we have invited to the Beta Launch of the product.
Please have a look at the new SEO Analysis Tool and let us know you thoughts. We will be adding more features in the weeks to come as we get closer to our official launch.
5 Online Wordpress Theme Generators
In: Web Tools
5 Aug 2009As we continue our series on Online Generators, we begin to focus more on sites that can provide more than just single components of a site. Today’s entry touches on an area that interests most of us … the ability to create your own Wordpress Theme online.
One general comment is that we were very pleased by what was available today. But I personally feel that there is still some effort needed to make these sorts of tools easy to use for the masses.
We hope you enjoy our selection.
6 Online Web 2.0 Button Generators
In: Web Tools
1 Aug 2009This is another post in a series to help you identify useful online web tools to make your site look it’s best.
These online button generators allow you to create click-able buttons (not web badges) and download them for inclusion onto your website. The criteria for these sites was that they could create a Web 2.0 looking button and allow you to save it to you own computer. However, many of these tools have gone beyond this and provide additional tools as well.
Read on to see what is offered:
10 Online Background Pattern Generators
In: Web Tools
17 Jul 2009With many web design projects, it is seemingly the items with the most subtle results that can require the most effort. This is certainly true with backgrounds.
You have probably seen some cool effects like stripes or other background patterns that seem to set off the design of a web page perfectly. Well now these professional, subtle looking effects can easily be implemented into your own pages with a minimal amount of effort thanks to the efforts of a few programmers.
The following is a list of online background pattern generators that will create a background pattern for you to download and use in your web design. We hope you find these useful.
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What is a Wordpress Child Theme?
In: WordPress
28 May 2009One of the more complex issues with Wordpress occurs when you need to customize the look and the feel.
This is complex because, in the past, a blog owner needed to understand some of the PHP code in a Wordpress theme before they could begin to make any custom changes. The process usually involves finding a theme that you like, and then changing as little as possible for the desired look.
Using Wordpress Child Themes makes the customization process much easier.
I found out about this feature while doing some research on Wordpress Theme Frameworks, which will be a topic for a future date. The process to setup a Child Theme is simple.
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5 Reasons to Start a Blog
In: General
21 Apr 2009I am often asked by friends and business associates, “Should I start a blog?”.
The first thing you need to answer this question is a reason to have a blog. If you have never blogged before, the effort might not seem worthwhile.
So I’ve written down a few reason you might want to start blogging, whether for personal or business reasons.
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Google to Launch Interest-based Advertising
In: Uncategorized
13 Mar 2009The web service Google Adsense will soon begin offering “interest-based advertising”. This addition “will allow advertisers to show ads based on a user’s previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser website and also to reach users based on their interests”.
What does this mean to those of us who use Google Adsense on our websites and blogs?
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