Targeting specific keywords in order to get more traffic from search engines is what SEO is mostly about. The question is and has always been which keywords to concentrate on. In the past, and even now, SEO experts focus on more generic keywords like travel, watches, pet care, etc. While these keywords are important, since […]
Google OKs Underscores as Word Separators in URLs and More SEO Tips
April 25, 2024 by
Still wondering if you should use dashes or underscores in your permalinks? Worry no more; Google considers both as legitimate word separators. This was announced by Google geek Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007 yesterday among several other pearls of SEO wisdom he dished out to the WordPress crowd. Originally posted on July 24, 2007 @ […]
A few reminders on third-party Image Hosting
April 25, 2024 by
If you have a blog that’s hosted in WordPress.com, or Blogspot, or any other free* service, or if you have unlimited resources, that is, truckloads of money to pay for all that uncapped web space, you may be least likely concerned about the gigabytes that images can easily consume from what you have arranged with […]
MovableType 4 Beta Released and Goes Open Source!
April 25, 2024 by
SixApart has just announced the release of MovableType 4 Beta. Many have known MT as the definitive blogging software that has forever changed the way people blog. Beyond WordPress Those who are well-versed with the history of blogging will know that the boom did not start with WordPress. The first wave came with MovableType. Few […]
Tweaking your blog’s HTML? Avoid these horrible tags!
April 25, 2024 by
If you’ve been blogging for sometime now, you would have tinkered with HTML several times of already. In fact I’ve shown how you can use several HTML tags to make your posts more readable. The bad news is, HTML has a dark side: it has tags and attributes that are not very useful or meaningful […]
Are Link Trains the Chain Letters of the Blogging Age?
April 25, 2024 by
You’ve probably seen several versions of a link train meme going around the blogosphere. Whether it’s supposedly optimized for certain web applications (e.g. Alexa version 1 & version 2, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Bloglines) or requires some other qualifier (viraltags, your name in your domain name, tech sites only, feed URLs, Z-listers only!), this method of sharing […]
