If you’re looking to advertise your blog, website, product, or service, online text based ads work great but they can’t beat the branding effectiveness of a great looking web banner ad. If designed correctly, banner ads can produce higher click through rates and greater sales for you. Banner ads can be used with CPC programs like Google AdWords and they permit you to take advantage of cheap advertising options Read more »
Within the past year or so advertising marketplaces have sprung up to meet the need for the tremendous growth rate of new blogs. In this article we take a closer look at the more popular ones that are available and the differences between them. The revenue share, type of ads, size of ads, and other distinctions vary across these networks for buying and selling ads on your blog Read more »
When optimized correctly, WordPress performs really well when it comes to SEO and search engine results page (SERP) rankings. Out of the box, however, WordPress has a ton of duplicate content problems. For instance, if you’re not using excerpts on the home, tags, categories pages and you are displaying the entire post, that post is being shown not only on the homepage but also on the category, tags, categories pages and you are displaying the entire post, that post is being shown not only on the homepage but also on the category, tags, and archives pages too. Read more »
Everytime I setup a new blog for myself or help someone else start their own blog there are some essential WordPress plugins that must be installed first and foremost. What are plugins you ask? Quite simply, plugins are tools that extend the functionality of WordPress (WP). Most of them are available for free at the Read more »
Today we are very excited to announce the release of WP Secure Downloads, our second WordPress plugin to date. The plugin is an ecommerce solution that permits the sale of digital goods from one’s own WordPress based website or blog with the utmost ease. This is in stark contrast Read more »
I am pleased to announce the release of Widget Locationizer, our first premium WordPress plugin. This plugin solves a long standing problem in WordPress. That is, the inability to control where and when your widgets appear. For the longest time WordPress users have been stuck with all of our widgets loading for every single page, post, tag, category, and archive. Sure there were a few workarounds like creating multiple versions of a sidebar through hard coding but with the Widget Locationizer plugin it is so much easier now. Read more »
Recently I’ve been reconsidering the all inclusive use of the rel=”nofollow” attribute that originated and was popularized by Google back in 2005. This tag was put into action in an attempt to curb the overwhelming comment spam that was effectively gaming Google’s system of ranking websites in their search results. That is, Google’s ranking system takes into account the number of links to a website and uses that Read more »
Lately I’ve been spending more time working on aesthetics, performance, and friendliness of this site. Now I’ve come to a very important decision to make and that is, should I change my permalink/organizational structure? I’ve read several blogs that say a /%category%/%post-title%/ is the best way to go because it Read more »
