If you are not blogging just for pleasure, you need to display ads on your site, on your sidebar, on your header, wherever you consider them necessary. In order to protect your Wordpress site from being penalized by the mighty Google, you have to display your ads moderately. I'm sure that almost all the Wordpress.org sites users know how to deal around with theme customizations, code snippets, and other modifications. Just in case, and for the rest of proudly WP users, I want to show here a … [Read more...]
The Intricacies of Alexa Ranking
Alexa Rank is a public metric that shows a domain position in a global list of all registered active domains. Small sites subdomains are not considered separately, one sees the proper domain's rank when checking. To not be confused with PR, which is a different sort of ranking (considered very important by marketeers). [source] Alexa is an Amazon property, and it represents a business itself. They have a toolbar and some addons showing the rank. As far as I have noticed, the rank is … [Read more...]
The Evil “nofollow” Is Back in Comments
This post's title should be "How to remove the evil nofollow tag from comments!" I hope you remember my old posts about "dofollow" tag. This is a tag you add to external links, to show your help to their Page Rank (PR). The more interesting is that to be have a real "dofollow" blog, you have to be "dofollow" in the comments too. I know, the Wordpress blogs structure is "nofollow" by default, to avoid spam, but it's also avoiding giving a help "hand" to your visitors or the ones you admire. I … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know About SEO
What you have to do, without fear (of Google, of course) and with a lot of sense of responsibility, it is at first to read what follows below. It is a post about SEO, and about measurement. The rest, all the rest actually, is a myth. If anything will change before the end of this year, or the next, will keep these following lines. So, what are the elements helping your site/blog to rank better, constantly good? The information is compiled from Search Engine Land with sending to various other … [Read more...]
Essential Plugins For Your WordPress Site
This is a list of essential plugins you have to install on your blog for the best functioning. These days, I'm going to create a booklet on the subject, which you'll be able to download as a free gift from me. But let's start, first! As Nick the Geek says, "must have plugins are a myth". I am not yet a Genesis developer, like him, but I have learned a great deal about using a Wordpress site, and that's the reason I also offered myself to help you as well. [source] Not all of us are … [Read more...]
Heartbleed-ing News
Heartbleed has been devastating for some big fishes in the pond. Allegations were made and the big bad wolf will be logically tamed. The ignorant columnists accused the "open source" of being too open and "uncontrolled", the specialists were stunned until they realized what actually happened, and now, finally, after good people ventilated the media, the masters of the internet are prone to give some help in the matter. It is interesting that various theories were pushed around, not any of it … [Read more...]