Why You Should NEVER Pay For Backlinks or Link-Building

April 6th, 2010

Paying for backlinks or link-building services is a bad idea. Tricky situation because you need links to help boost your page rankings. You must be strong. You must be well-informed and not easily-seduced by a PR-This and a PR-That.

Wordpress As A CMS

April 5th, 2010

Using Wordpress as a CMS or Content Management System is a terrific idea we strongly support. We are proponents of using Wordpress as often as possible. A few limitations but near-endless possibilities.

How To Compress CSS With PHP And ob_gzhandler

April 4th, 2010

Compressing your CSS files is an easy way to increase your site speed. Due to the fact that many forms of compression require access to files most are unfamiliar with, this PHP-based method requires access to your CSS file only. Pretty neat.

Apache or Microsoft IIS Server?

April 3rd, 2010

There are two main types of HTTP servers that websites are hosted on; Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Server or IIS.

How To Make A Favicon – Browser Icon

April 2nd, 2010

If your website doesn’t have a favicon, it most definitely should. Growing in popularity, these cute little images are the [...]

How To Add Alt Attributes To Images

April 1st, 2010

Until facial or image recognition software is perfected, search engine robots still need our help to identify and describe images on a website. A great SEO tactic is to use the ALT attribute in image tags to add a descriptive element which will allow search engines to classify our images.

How To Match Keywords – Keyword Matching

March 31st, 2010

Keyword matching is a term used to describe the level of keyword-focus consistency across all the most important on-page elements. [...]

Wordpress + Shopping Cart = Wordpress Shopping Cart

March 30th, 2010

Our love affair with Wordpress was in the honeymoon phase so we wanted to see how far it could go. After a few months of ideas and testing, we developed our own version of a Wordpress shopping cart.

Meta Keywords Tags – How To Make Them Excel

March 30th, 2010

Webmasters often make the mistake of stuffing a dozens keywords into their keyword meta tags. While logically, it makes sense to associate a give page with the maximum amount of keywords possible, you are almost definitely suffering by spreading yourself too thin.

Trailing Slash Duplicate Content And How To Fix It

March 29th, 2010

One form of duplicate content that often goes unnoticed is your servers’ treatment of a trailing slash. Similar to WWW vs Non-WWW duplicate content, this individual character in your URL or permalink structure is a leading cause of duplicate content.