Archive of Category: Webmaster Tips

A few weeks ago at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts made a comment during a Q&A session that seemed to shock the SEO industry.  The comment Matt made was that link juice that is assigned to a nofollow’ed link by Google evaporates instead of being reassigned to links that don’t contain the nofollow attribute.  Well after many speculating blog posts were made by SEO’s trying to understand the comment, Matt decided to post a clarifying post on his blog about page rank sculpting. (…)

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of Wordpress, announced the official release of Wordpress 2.8.  According to Matt’s blog post on wordpress.org, the new release has greatly improved the speed of the system due to changes in the way Wordpress does styling and scripting.  Matt also mentions in his announcement that WP 2.8 has over 180 new features and more then 790 bug fixes. (…)

About six to eight months ago I found myself having problems getting enough time out of the day to manage a custom website for Weberz on top of fixing servers, answering support tickets, and generally trying to conduct business on a day to day basis.  So I decided to look into making at least one of those jobs easier by converting our website to be managed by a Wordpress installation.  The general idea was to use Wordpress as a CMS system and a blog platform in a single installation of the software. 
The reason behind making such as change was simple.  Wordpress has such as huge following that the internet community at large has created plugins and themes for the system for almost every possible need.  This is great as it allows us to use those plugins rather then having to code custom pages in PHP on our old website to get similar features. (…)

Out on the interwebs there are thousands of tools focused on helping webmasters, site owners and business owners to get more out of their websites.  These tools can range from statistical analysis to link building and traffic generation.  With all of these available it can easily become overwhelming for a individual who doesn’t deal with it daily to get confused and easily fall into a scam or end up with sub par tools.  After all the last thing we want is to do something that’s going to get you site banned in the search engines because the tool you used was not completely on the level. (…)

Yes it’s true, even webmasters have spring cleaning to do.  In the northern half of the world the seasons are starting to change and it’s starting to get nice outside once again.  Yes, spring time is back.  While every one typically loves this time of year where the sun starts to come out and the bird are chirping.. (…)