Web Design & Standards: The Archives
Using Social Bookmarking Sites The Ethical Way
Social Bookmarking services allow people to store their bookmarks online and share them with other people. There’s a popularity element to the process too - most bookmarking sites publish lists of the currently most popular items based on a number of criteria.
Smart webmasters know that by getting their sites listed on the ‘popular’ lists means [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, May 4 2007 | 5 Comments »
Why Is Google SERP So Important?
A key factor in search engine optimization is your SERP - that is your position in the Search Engine Results Pages for any given keyword. The Holy Grail of SERP is to achieve the first position on the first page of results for a particular keyword. This article explains why.
Posted in Client Guides, Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, May 4 2007 | 1 Comment »
Wikimedia’s Unethical Use Of nofollow For Commercial Gain
Wikipedia has lifted restrictions on links to their sister sites that will give these new, for-profit sites an unfair advantage in the search engines. This post look at why you should care and what other commentators have said about the controversial decision.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, May 3 2007 | 1 Comment »
Husband and Wife Blog Battle
Regular readers of the Scribble Designs blog know that my wife Lisa and I run an entertainment blog called Unreality TV.
Well, a few weeks ago we formally launched two new blogs under the Unreality banner - Unreality Music (my baby) and Unreality Primetime (Lisa’s baby). Comparing our strategies last night, we realised we were taking [...]
Posted in Blogging on Tuesday, April 24 2007 | 2 Comments »
SEO - Automating Meta Description For Dynamic ASP.NET Pages
Inspired by the META Description plugin for WordPress, I spent some time porting the code across to ASP.NET so that dynamically generated pages in my web applications could benefit from the enhanced individual META description tags.
Posted in General, Programming, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, April 18 2007 | Leave a comment »
Why The Blogger’s Code of Ethics Won’t Work
After the recent scandal where a high-profile blogger received death threats and serious abuse online, Tim O’Reilly attempts to launch a code of conduct for bloggers. Despite what are probably his best intentions, I have my reservations.
Posted in Blogging on Monday, April 16 2007 | Leave a comment »
Matt Mullenweg Featured In Sydney Morning Herald
If you’ve ever wondered about the brains behind WordPress, Matt Mullenweg has been interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald. The interview was a revelation, because despite following Matt’s career for the last couple of years I had no idea how much he’d achieved.
Posted in Blogging, WordPress on Monday, April 16 2007 | Leave a comment »
Comment Relish Plugin For WordPress
A new plugin that thanks first-time commenters for their input - a nice touch to add to your blog and some advice for hacking the plugin to make it more personal.
Posted in Blogging, WordPress on Thursday, April 12 2007 | 1 Comment »
How To Configure Sitemap Autodiscovery For Your Website
How to add support for sitemap autodiscovery to your website. Now that Google, Yahoo! and MSN have added support for autodiscovery, you can add a simple line to your robots.txt file that tells the spiders where the sitemap is located.
Posted in Internet Technologies, Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, April 12 2007 | 1 Comment »
How To Configure WordPress Post-Installation
The default WordPress installation requires some configuration before it’s ready for use. I’ve decided to share my tips for configuring WordPress after the initial installation.
Posted in WordPress on Wednesday, April 4 2007 | 1 Comment »
