Archive for April, 2007

Maintenance Mode plugin

Here’s a plugin I feel every WordPress blog should not be without. I just came across it and boy, does it sure come in handy. Basically what this plugin does is to put up a temporary page to announce that you are doing some site maintenance and to be right back back in X amount [...]

The coolest Ajax WordPress theme so far

Now, I just came across Samanathons post on a WordPress theme generator. This is a cool idea, to actually be able to build a theme from a basic framework. It saves you the trouble of going around and finding a theme to use for your WordPress site by generating a “new” WordPress theme based on [...]

3 writing tips

Are you a better talker than you are a writer? Although I assume all bloggers and content publishers should belong to the “writers” group, there exists at the same time a vast majority of people out there who do have trouble writing and creating content for their websites. They would rather talk than write.
I also [...]

Digg effect experiment at SEOmoz

I noticed an interesting post on SEOmoz that in essense shows the power of Digg and Reddit in building crazy traffic overnight. The post by SEOer Daniel Tynski is here. A worthy link bait from any webmaster’s perspective.
How long would it take to get 234,000 visitors? Practically overnight?
Here’s what I observed:

Social media sites are the [...]

The importance of .com

There is no doubt about it; .com is the undisputed king by a long mile. Speaking from experience, I once had a .info on one of my hosting accounts and even after 5 months it wasn’t indexed at all by Google. Till today, it still has not been indexed, even long after I removed it [...]

Earth Day observations

April 22 is Earth Day, and its time to bring on the blinkers and the sunshades. For all its worth, it’s a time to take stock of where we the world, are heading. To quote George Orwell, “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle“.
The trends don’t look very encouraging, [...]