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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum. What I wanted to make sure would happen is that if a visitor bookmarks a page they bookmark the first page in the thread instead of bookmarking a later page in [...]
The Webmaster Tools at Google have a new feature – content analysis. It lists potential problems that were found while Google was indexing your site. It lists potential problems as issues with the title tag, duplicate meta description, short meta description, long meta description, and something called “non indexable content issues”. The only problem that [...]