So Microsoft officially changed their Live search to Bing a few days ago. I was never one to use MSN Live to search (ever), but when I put it through the paces, I have to say, it’s not bad at all! Although the name sounds a little campy to me, what matters is performance. Unlike… Read More: What do you think of Bing? »
An obvious difference between Firefox and other browsers is the ability to install add-ons or plugins that can enhance the surfing experience (at least for the majority of add-ons). If you are a web developer, creating user-friendly and standards compliant webpages is important. You may be designing a complex application or a simple webpage, but… Read More: 9 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers »
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is vital for any website, if you want to get visitors from the search engines. SEO is neither complex nor simple, but does require at least a working knowledge in the basic principles. On-site or on-page SEO is often overlooked in favor of off-page SEO, but it is in fact… Read More: 10 Basic Guidelines for On-site SEO »
Hardly a day goes by these days without some bleak news about the problems affecting the US economy, and the shake-ups happening to some long time corporate giants. It has even gotten to me, and I can’t help myself feeling a little more than apprehensive. Being a blogger and webmaster is solely something I’ve been… Read More: Carrying a business idea through tough times »
Problogger Darren Rowse had an interesting post talking about what many bloggers experience. He posed the question of, “Is writing great, unique content enough to build a successful blog?” I think this is a prevalent problem affecting many good blogs out there, in that they hardly get recognized for what they are worth, and break… Read More: The splog menace »
Duplicate content is one of the banes of the Internet. And if you publish a blog or website, and your stuff is generally good, there’s a high likelihood, someone, somewhere, will copy the stuff you write and paste that up on their sites. First of all, let’s differentiate between duplicate content and syndicated content. Both… Read More: The Duplicate Content Problem »
The Web as we all know it could be radically altered soon, by some proposals made by ICANN, the domain name regulatory board. According to proposals which are being discussed in Paris, and which the results will be made known after Thursday, we may all see major changes in the way we think of Web… Read More: Radical Changes coming to the Web? »
One of the common problems faced by some webmasters is slow or non indexing by Google. As we know, Google is currently the top search engine in the world, and so if you have a website on whatever, the first thing you can do for it is to try to get it indexed and listed… Read More: How to get indexed quickly by Google »
The past week has seen another Google Pagerank (PR) update, which has just about concluded. And I’m pretty glad to see my Pagerank updated to a PR 4! Here is a Pagerank checking site. Although webmasters will tell you that Pagerank is not important, they all secretly value it. Bragging rights maybe. I bet you… Read More: Updated in PageRank, Alexa and WordPress »