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Wordpress is one of the most popular, free solutions for managing your website’s content and I am a devoted fanboy. However, whilst Wordpress in its default, out-of-the-box form can provide a good platform for your website, with a little tinkering you can increase the functionality of your site massively. And what’s the easiest way of tinkering? Plugins! Special files that you simply slot-in to your Wordpress installation to get new features. Here are 8 plugins that I consider absolutely invaluable… (more…)

This is a compilation of stuff Matt Cutts has said historically, minus some of the more recent stuff here, here, and here. I decided I’d dig backwards and document some of the older stuff. I dated it accordingly. Here it is: (more…)

Here is an explanation of some commonly used web hosting terms that many people may not be too familiar width. Bandwidth, file hosting, and disk space are all central to running a web site and it is important to understand what they are.
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Browsershots is a free online platform where you can test your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will automatically open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here. (more…)

Many people who have websites are not totally up to date with what is considered to be search engine spamming. Having worked on search engine optimisation for a few clients, I have come across websites that are using spam techniques to help elevate search engine rankings. When I confronted clients about this, they honestly did not know they were using a form of spam nor did they realise the consequences if detected by the search engines.
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Viewing Your Site with an All-Text Browser

Improvement implies a feedback loop: you can’t know how well you are doing without a mechanism for examining your current status. The feedback mechanism that helps you improve your site from an SEO perspective is to view your site as the bot sees it. This means viewing the site using a text-only browser. A text-only browser, just like the search engine bot, will ignore images and graphics, and only process the text on a page. (more…)