Search Engine optimization is all about keywords. Selecting a good niche keyword, means that you are half done in your efforts to drive traffic to your site. Earlier, when SEO was “discovered”, we were all told by the gurus that keywords are the main components one should focus efforts on. So we went around, picking niche keywords, selecting the most popular ones on search engines, and tweaked our site copies to increase it’s keyword density.
This is old story. Recently, it has been noted that SEO is more than just selecting a good keyword. It’s about…
HTML is back! It never really left us but it never really did anything with itself after hunkering down in its parents basement eight years ago watching Star Trek reruns. But Apple, Opera, and the Mozilla Foundation came a knocking one day and decided to give HTML some money to go to night school and learn some new tricks.
Some new additions I’m really excited about are the section, header, footer, nav, and article elements. Instead of writing <div id=”header”> or <div class=”entry”> I can now write <header> or <article> respectively,…
I mentioned a few days ago that I have been looking for new authors for Blogging Tips. I have managed to secure a fantastic team of authors who will now be posting on Blogging Tips on a regular basis. Unfortunately, I had to turn down some applications from good bloggers as I didn’t want the new additions to be covering the same subjects.
The new authors
I hope you will join me in welcoming the following people to the Blogging Tips writing team.
Basic Text Formatting
There are certain attributes which, if you are used to using WordPress or another quality CMS of some sort, you should know about. Bolding (strong) and emphasizing text (em) is prevalent, and shouldn’t really be surprising anymore. There are a couple of concepts which may be fresh, though.
“Del” and “Ins”
These two tags are handy when it comes to modifying what you’ve written later. Blogging carries with it a number of etiquettes, best practices if you will: one of them is not changing what you’ve written without disclosing what you’ve…
Matt Cutts has released his ‘Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers‘ powerpoint presentation this morning. This is the slideshow he presented at the Wordpress WordCamp in July.
He talks about the wordpress plugins he is considering using on his blog and also what you should do if you move domain.
Heres a preview of some of the slides :
My WordPress Wishlist
- Drop RSS 0.92 feed
- Prevent content at multiple url aliases
- Better caching without WP Cache
- Drop version string in header.php
- Put a blank index.html in /plugins/ directory. When a plugin has a security…
Darren mentioned a few days ago that Pro Blogger would be getting a new design. In the last few hours he has switched to the new theme and I must say, I’m a big fan. The size of the font is much bigger so it’s easier to read the posts and colour scheme works well too.
See the official announcement about the new design here
