Monthly Archives: 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… Read More »

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

Category: SEO

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… Read More »

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… Read More »

Claim your blog at Technorati

I’ve just claimed my blog at Technorati, (been forgetting it) and this post is just to “post claim” it as how Technorati wants. Here’s my profile My Technorati Profile I notice that many new and not-so-new blogs have yet to be claimed by their owners at Technorati, but they should, it helps to get the… Read More »

LSI: A quick look at LSI

Almost everyone agrees LSI is here to stay, and will keep on increasing in importance in the search engines. LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing is a way to evaluate a document based on semantically related terms using a sparse matrix with rows corresponding to terms and columns corresponding to documents. A weightage is assigned to… Read More »

Category: SEO

Does your blog evolve?

One of the things that sets blogs apart from other kinds of websites is the fact that blogs are constantly evolving creations that reflect the bloggers personal taste and style. Unlike a typical static website, publishing has never been easier with blogs, and the fact that it gets more people online is the main reason… Read More »

How to use keywords in your article

Search engine marketing relies heavily on articles to promote products. Without a proper keyword optimized article, it is going to be difficult to get your article up in the search engine results. As if it has become a byword, unique quality content is important to please both search engines and humans. But whereas humans can… Read More »