Wednesday, March 10, 2010

10 Wordpress Plugins That Will Help your Search Engine Optimization

Organic website traffic on your website is what you want. If you don’t know that, get it through your thick skull!   If you are writing blogs today or maintaining a website that runs on WordPress, you are probably wondering what you can do to help in your website (or blogs) search engine optimization.  Search [...]

Coded New Search Engine

January 16, 2010 by Tony  
Filed under Design, News, Services, Technology, Wordpress

Today, we finished coding a new custom search engine for www.MacMakeup.net.  We started with some basic infrastructure backend that allows users to properly search through the database tables for a few things.  Main problem was that the standard search built into WordPress, wouldn’t touch the custom built tables.
We ran into the issue when the standard [...]

Page Rank Explained

January 4, 2010 by Tony  
Filed under Design, Services, Technology, Wordpress

What is PageRank?
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the [...]

How to Pick a Good Website Designer (page2)

December 27, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Design, News, Services, Technology, Tutorials, Wordpress

How to Pick a Good Website Designer? (page 2 of 2)
You would like to find a good website designer?  We all wish to earn huge amount of money without making much effort. If done correctly, the “e-business” or “online” world has provided most of us this opportunity to put forth a generous effort and work [...]

11 Best Wordpress SEO Tips (expanded)

December 24, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Blogging, Design, Featured, News, Tutorials, Wordpress

WordPress is one of the best open “opensource” content managed systems around. The main reason that I like WordPress is that WordPress is highly configurable if you know what you’re doing.
What is SEO?
First of all, let’s talk about what SEO is and what it means: Search engine optimization (-SEO-) is the process of improving the [...]

How to Create an .htaccess File

December 24, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Blogging, Design, Tutorials, Wordpress

How to Create an .htaccess File
Here’s how to create a text file suitable for an .htaccess file:

Open up any text editor application on your computer. We recommend that you use Notepad (Windows), Textpad, SimpleText (Macintosh), or Emacs (Linux / UNIX).
Save the file in a place where you can located it as .htaccess (including the [...]

Let’s talk about Content Management Systems!

September 15, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Design, Services, Technology, Wordpress

Let’s talk about Content Management Systems!
While we will discuss “website content management systems” (WCMS), there are a few types of content management systems:

Enterprise CMS (ECMS)
Web CMS (WCMS, we will discuss this one today)
Document management system (DMS)
Mobile CMS
Component CMS
Media content management system

A (W)ebsite (C)ontent (M)anagement system (WCMS) is content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented [...]

Checking your Stats & Inbound Links from the Dashboard

September 13, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Blogging, Tutorials, Videos, Wordpress

If you’d like to check out who’s reading your blog, and how they tracked you down, the incoming links and stats features of your dashboard make it easy. This 60 second tutorial walks you through the process.

Add a PayPal Button to Your Blog

September 13, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Blogging, Tutorials, Videos, Wordpress

If you’d like to add a PayPal donation button to the posts, pages or sidebar of your blog, this video will show you how.

Changing your Default Media Settings

September 13, 2009 by Tony  
Filed under Blogging, Tutorials, Videos, Wordpress

If you prefer to set your own default image dimensions, you can do so from the Media Settings menu. This short tutorial walks you through the process.

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