This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
Google recently announced the google partners mobile sites certification program. The Mobile Sites certification is a professional accreditation that Google offers to individuals who demonstrate proficiency in basic and advanced aspects of mobile website design and development. A Mobile Sites certification allows individuals to demonstrate that Google recognises them as Read more…
Keyword research for organic SEO used to be easy. You didn’t need any keyword research tools. Put up some content, let google index the content and watch in analytics as the search terms people used piled in. Then make sure you optimised for the keywords that provided the most results. Read more…
Not sure how I missed this one, but there is now a google ‘Author Stats’ section in google webmastertools: goto google webmastertools > labs > author stats you will now see all the pages that google knows you have authored, across all of the sites you author, with click through Read more…
First: why should you link audit competitors? Second: who are your competitors and how to find them. Third: doing the link audit. Fourth: use the link audit to build links to your own site. why should you link audit competitors There are a few good reasons to do a link Read more…
This will show you how to link your google webmastertools and your google analytics accounts. when the two accounts are linked it lets you get some better stats in your webmastertools. goto google.com/webmastertools click on manage it will have an entry for ‘google analytics profile’ in the dropdown when you Read more…
This will show you how to fix google analytics ‘bounce rate’ if you have a blog. bounce rate is a tricky one – if you have an ecommerce site, then bounce is when people dont go to your checkout, or if they do go to your checkout then dont complete Read more…
A list of some useful tools for managing your twitter accounts. they have been divided into two categories: 1) follower management 2) analytics 1) follower management wefollow.com – fill in your details so that others can follow you untweeps.com can use 3 times a month to unfollow stale peoples tweepi.com Read more…
WordPress ultimate seo guide – This post is about making your wordpress perform better in search engine result pages. WordPress is pretty good, but its not perfect. this will tell you how to make it stronger. 1) what is seo? Making sure that your pages have the best chance of Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable google analytics – provides an excellent way to track all the users of your site, what pages they go to, where they go, how long they stay on your site, Read more…
SEO seminar with Rand Fishkin – I work as a web developer. its a great job, and its great fun (especially since I’m a geek). One of the companies we do a lot of work with have a lot of good contacts. one of them is @randfish – founder of Read more…