Dec 22 2008

How to Have Your Blogroll Show on Your Home Page Only

For those of you running WordPress with a blogroll in your sidebar, you might want to set up your blogroll to show on your home page only. Why? There are two good reasons: it’s better for you and it’s better for the sites listed in your blogroll. It’s better for you because it minimizes PageRank [...]

Dec 19 2008

Is Your Meta Tag Title Driving Traffic the Other Way?

If your website is ranking well but you don’t seem to be getting your expected share of traffic, you might want to take a look at your meta tag titles. In case you’re wondering, the meta tag title is the text heading that appears in the title bar or tab area of your browser. The [...]

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Dec 16 2008

How to Use HTML Anchor Text Links

This may seem like a very basic webmaster concept, but many of those who are new to building websites do not know how to use html anchor text links in their content and some of those who do know do not use them properly. If you don’t know what anchor text is, it’s the text [...]

Jul 16 2008

How to Use a htaccess Redirect to www

Did you know there are likely four ways to access your site’s home page? It’s not a good thing but you can eliminate the problem by using a htaccess redirect to www.
Most likely, your site can be accessed through each of the following URLs:
http://www.yourwebsite.com
http://yourwebsite.com
http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.php
http://yourwebsite.com/index.php
Now, we can’t control how other people link to our sites and [...]

Jun 15 2008

Firefox Add-Ons: SEO for Firefox

If you’re a webmaster, you want to see your site as high as possible in the search engine results pages. The higher your site gets, the more traffic you can expect, and obviously more traffic leads to more buyers. Without traffic, it doesn’t matter how pretty your site is or how valuable the content is, [...]