From the monthly archives:

April 2009

The Importance of Sitemaps

by Joshua Unseth on April 30, 2009

I started using Google’s Webmaster tools extensively about a month ago. It’s super helpful. What it seems to show, however, is how much weight Google puts in your sitemap.

Search Engine Watch, has a great article on how to construct and integrate a sitemap (or more than one sitemap) into your site.

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Google gets their Water-based Data Center Patent

April 29, 2009

Back in September, Google made waves by submitting a patent for wave-powered datacenter. Yesterday, SEO By the Sea reported that Google was granted its patent. Congratulations Google!

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Speeding Up WordPress

April 29, 2009

Joost De Valk put together a presentation for the A4U Expo in Europe yesterday. His slideshow is great. And I think I’ll do a few posts focusing on the points he put together.

WordPress Optimisation – A4UExpo
View more presentations from Joost De valk.

Install WP-SuperCache
Joost recommends that you install a plugin called WP-SuperCache and that you enable [...]

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How to Use Google Analytics

April 25, 2009

Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful resource that Google has made available for free. If you want to learn how to use Google Analytics Goal Conversions, look at Google Analytics’ bounce rate, or do anything else, take a look at NewFangled’sGoogle Analytics Slideshow.

How To Use Google Analytics
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Retrieve a Post’s First Image and Resize it with TimThumb

April 23, 2009

I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to retrieve the first image of a post. I found a bunch of articles with code samples and one plugin: Simple Image Grabber, WordPress Forum, Live Experience, WP Recipes, and Justin Tadlock. In nearly every set of comments, people were trying to figure out [...]

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Net Casting Spider

April 20, 2009
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Magazines and their PDFs: the Duplicate Content Dilemma

April 18, 2009

A lot of magazines make their content available both on their site and in a pdf somewhere on the site. The obvious problem this poses to online content is simply that search engines don’t like duplicate content. If your me, and you host most of your pdfs on a server like ISSUU than you have [...]

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Global Translator Plugin’s SEO Problem

April 18, 2009

After installing Global Translator Plugin for WordPress, Google’s Webmaster Tools (which you should sign up for immediately if you haven’t already), indicated that my site had gone from 0 unreachable links to over 4,000 in the matter of a week.
I appreciated the 300% spike in traffic that the Global Translator Plugin provided me, but the [...]

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Our Newly Redesigned Site

April 5, 2009

After spending some time redesigning this site, I’ve come up with a look that is a bit more clean and fun. I’m really happy with the product.
The complete redesign isn’t completely done, but it’s

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