BluDomain and difficulty getting indexed by Google

One of the photography forums I spend a lot of time on has a web site board where I tend to camp out. A good percentage of the photographers are using Flash template sites like BluDomain, FlashPalette, or PortfolioSitez which are nice, relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to setup.
BluDomain goes a step farther [...]

GoCodes redirection plugin

Have you ever needed to give out a URI from a blog post? Sure, you can do it, but the URIs are usually pretty long. And forget about it if you’re saying it over the phone or on a podcast. A Wordpress plugin called GoCodes looks like it may be able to [...]

Using Google Alerts to keep track of what’s said about you

I wrote about Google Alerts a few months ago to get new topic ideas for your blog or forum. There is another use for Alerts - to keep track of what’s being said about you, your site, or your company.
By entering your name, site name, or company name you can get email alerts any [...]

Using the WordPress post slug for SEO

WordPress makes it easy to have friendly URIs. Under the Options -> Permalinks tab you have several options. Of the options, I would suggest using one with %postname% as part of the URI.
But why?
If you read any web design blogs or forums you know that the words in the URI are important for [...]

Something better than CoComment?

I’ve been using CoComment to keep track of comments on other people’s blogs for about a year now, and I really like it. The interface they have on their web page is fairly slick and the fact that I don’t have to do anything extra to keep track of the comments makes it easy.
But [...]