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SEO Friendly WordPress in 12 Steps SEO Friendly WordPress in 12 Steps
March 1, 2013 - WordPress is fantastic, free, and open source. It can be installed, up and running in a matter of minutes, however, out of the box, WordPress is not as SEO friendly as you'd think. This guide will show you the steps to modify a WordPress site.
Matt Morgan  |  Print version
3 Ways to Identify Link Prospects 3 Ways to Identify Link Prospects
March 1, 2013 - In a crowded space where everyone uses the same basic tactics, only those who utilize creative forms of outreach specific to their target vertical will separate from the pack. Here's how to gain high-quality links and a competitive advantage.
George Fischer  |  Print version
5 Tips to Improve Your Press Releases 5 Tips to Improve Your Press Releases
March 1, 2013 - The goal of a press release is to attract media attention and be published by journalists. To make that happen, press releases should provide a factual yet engaging summary of your news. Avoid technical jargon, hype, and a sales call to action.
Christina Zila  |  Print version
New Details About Google’s News-Ranking Algorithm Revealed in Patent New Details About Google’s News-Ranking Algorithm Revealed in Patent
March 1, 2013 - What's the secret to improve your organization’s visibility in search results in Google News? Information from a patent filed by Google in February 2012 offers new insights into the many potential factors Google’s news-ranking algorithm evaluates.
Jayson DeMers  |  Print version
Social Signals & Search – Reading the Tea Leaves Social Signals & Search – Reading the Tea Leaves
February 28, 2013 - There is more speculation than definitive direction on how search engine algorithms are weighing social signals in search. Here's what we can learn search engines value by dissecting and interpreting search results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Rebecca Murtagh  |  Print version
What is SEO Cocitation? What is SEO Cocitation?
February 28, 2013 - There has always been evidence that words on pages linking to a website (contextual phrases) are influential, but many SEOs see the importance of co-occurrence, or semantic similarity, increasing in Google's algorithm. Learn the basic concepts here.
Adam Stetzer  |  Print version
How to Generate Quality Traffic With Display Advertising How to Generate Quality Traffic With Display Advertising
February 28, 2013 - Even if you have been burned with a poor display experience in the past – or were just too scared to try – know that now is the time to test display again. There are so many options, it is truly like being a kid in a candy store.
John Lee  |  Print version
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

CSS, WordPress, Google, thumbs.db, eyeball, Cassandra, aiCache and more

Cloudy with a chance of CSS4.       View this online.
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Ricky Onsman

Hi, folks! My favorite item this week is our own great new service for assessing broken code. Eyeball is going to change things. We also have some CSS, WordPress plugins, Google theme words, pricing your services, programming languages and getting rid of those annoying image caching files in Windows. Plenty for you to do.

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CSS Selectors Level 4: The Path to CSS4

OK, it's controversial and probably unnecessary to invoke the term CSS4, but the next evolutionary stage of CSS is likely to include much of what Syed Fazle Rahman points out is the subject of discussion.

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CSS4
Eyeballs on Your Front End

We're working on a whole new approach to identifying and fixing broken CSS, HTML and JavaScript. One aspect of this approach is Eyeball, a Twitter-based way of requesting site assessments. Try it.

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Eyeball
How to Switch Off Thumbs.db

Count me among those who get irritated by these image cache files. Craig Buckler explains how to get rid of them. Don't be fooled into thinking you disable them. No. You enable turning them off.

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Thumbs.db
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Why You Should Never Drop Your Price

Craig puts his business hat on (that's the one that doesn't have a propeller) and comes up with five reasons for never lowering your professional charges. There are some interesting comments on this.

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Time is money
The Art of Pricing

How much a web pro should charge and how to calculate that is also the subject of Lead Business Writer John Tabita's latest offering, but he brings into play the Law of Reciprocation. You read that right.

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Pricing
Migrating Apps is Simple

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Optimization in the Cloud: aiCache

Jacco Blankenspoor uses SitePoint.com as a cache test dummy for cloud-based aiCache's claimed ability to slash site loading times while reducing server load. The results speak for themselves.

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A Quick Introduction to Apache Cassandra

Still with a Cloudspring in our step, NetFlix, eBay, Twitter and Reddit all use a "scalable, high-availability datastore with no single point of failure". Nikolas Goebel explains how Cassandra does the job.

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Learn HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

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What is the Best Programming Language to Learn?

PHP, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Objective C ... Craig looks at which languages are trending upwards in popularity this year, and finds it requires a second glance to put the statistics in proper perspective.

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Using Free WordPress Plugins

I know I can write my own WordPress plugins, but when there are so many good ones available free, why wouldn't I use them? Rakhitha Nimesh provides some guidelines that developers can follow.

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What Theme Words Mean to Google

As Dan Kaufenberg explains, theme words are key words in  text webpage content that, when looked at in context, help Google to establish a theme and confirm the text's authority. Makes sense.

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