Semantic Markup Tag Reference
Jun1
If you care at all about Search Engine Optimization than you need to know Semantic Markup with your eyes closed!
It is the foundation of good SEO and without it you are doomed to a life of sub-par SERPs. Even if you know everything about SEO, bad semantic markup is enough on its own to kill your rankings. So don’t forget to use it on all your webpages!
Top 10 SEO Blogs for SEOs
Jun0
- Graywolf - Always full of information on the search engine optimization and search marketing fields, whitty commentary and in depth articles. You’ll find tons of great insights here.
- Seobook.com - Leading SEO blog by Aaron Wall covering the search space. It offers marketing tips, search analysis, and whatever random rants come to mind.
Top 7 Wordpress Plugins for SEO
Jun0
Aizatto’s Related Posts – Adds related post information to posts and feeds. Great for helping your site get indexed fasted.
Cross-Linker– Set up commonly used words to link to posts or redirects. This plugin can also do wonders for affiliate linking.
Google (XML) Sitemaps– Automatically build and ping multiple sitemap services with an XML file.
65 Wordpress Pinging URLs You Need to Know
Jun1
Adding these ping resources to your wordpress blog is a great way to help your website get indexed faster by search engines; especially niche blog news aggregators specialty search engines like Technorati.
Not to mention is is great for Search Engine Optimization.
Make sure you only use the pinging resources that are relevant to your site.
Why You Should Compress Your Javascript
Jun1
Do you write a lot of jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, Dojo (all types of JavaScript) code?
If you do then you should also be compressing (or minify) that code on all your live websites. And not just the large scripts either…
You should Minify every Javascript script that is going to be loaded by any of your webpages, especially the ones that are highly trafficked.
How to Pick a Great Web Designer
May4
Choosing a web designer isn’t as simple as one would think. The first experience many customers will have with your business is when they visit your website. It sets the tone for their entire online experience. This first impression is critical – a poorly designed website will cause visitors to leave or lose buying confidence. After all, when they visit your website do you want them to feel as if they have just walked into a high end Gucci store… or
Top 10 Free Javascript Compressors
Apr3
If you don’t already, you really should get in the habit of compressing your Javascript.
In a survey of ten top U.S. web sites, minification achieved a 21% file size reduction.
This can allow your website to load up to 80% faster! Save bandwidth, hosting fees and decrease load time all at once.
Web Design Firm vs. just a Web Designer?
Mar3
Generally web design firms will cost more than just a one person web design company. This is for good reason and if you can afford it you should choose a design firm over just a single designer, here’s why: With a web design firm you have many experts that collaborate together to better guarantee the perfectly crafted website. No one individual can possibly master all aspects of website design, and remember a good looking is useless if it’s not functional and coded properly for search engine optimization.
Best Way To Send Large Files For Free
Jan2
So… You want to send an email attachment from your Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail account but it says you are exceeding the attachment size limit.
This often used to happen to me when I would try to send clients all their website files and scripts in a ZIP file.
You can send any file as an attachment to anybody via email, true. But only as long as it meets the size restrictions of your email provider; and if you haven’t already noticed that size limit is practically nothing, 25MB at most! 25MBs, are you kidding me?