Here’s a video from Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team. If you want to know Google’s position on various SEO methods, this is the guy to turn to. Here’s a video where Matt gives us some insight into “PageRank sculpting,” a fancy term for selectively linking to various pages on your own site in order to direct the PageRank in the most desired locations. You can find Matt’s blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/.
Read more →In this article I teach you how to use Apache’s mod_rewrite to redirect all visitors to the www version of your domain. I’ll also cover the reverse for those that want to send visitors to the non-www version only.
Read more →Lately I’ve been tinkering around with ExpressionEngine, the popular commercial CMS from Ellis Labs. There are some great things about the software and some really, really bad things. In this post I’ll cover the basics of what I didn’t like about the $300 content management system.
Read more →In this tutorial I take you through the fairly simple process of setting a static homepage for your WordPress site and moving the blog page to another location, like /blog/.
Read more →This article explains how to allow other users access to your Yahoo Search Marketing account. This is something I do when managing Yahoo PPC campaigns. Yahoo has three access levels, any of which you can assign to new users on your account.
Read more →This is a follow-up to the previous article about adding a new user to Yahoo search marketing. In this article I’ll cover adding a new user to Microsoft’s equivalent of Yahoo! Search Marketing and Google AdWords, known as adCenter.
Read more →This is a followup to the previous two articles about adding users to MSN adCenter and Yahoo Search Marketing PPC advertising platforms. In this article I’ll walk you through adding a new user to your Google Analytics statistics account.
Read more →Google’s recently added the ability to target Pay Per Click campaigns to specific areas by simply drawing a border on a map around the area you want to target. Any searches inside that area will see your ads. This is one way of implementing “Geographical Targeting” and this article explains how to set it up.
Read more →In combination with Adobe’s LiveCycle Designer, Acrobat provides a really easy to use method of distributing and collecting questionnaires. We’ve recently started using these questionnaires for some client projects for a number of reasons that I’ll go over here.
Read more →Working on a number of different web development projects over the years, a standardized process has sort of naturally evolved that we’ve then adjusted into a formal workflow, which allows us to get projects delivered to the client as quickly as possible while ensuring we don’t miss any steps or overlook any key details.
Read more →If you currently own a website, you probably deal with one or two companies on a regular basis, your hosting company, and your domain name registrar (the company you have your domain name registered with) – for some people, these two companies are the same.
Read more →In this article I explain how to compensate for another one of Internet Explorer’s quirks, the way it handles the overflow property. Specifically with regard to the overflow property being set to auto. The fix is pretty simple.
Read more →JavaScript is great for usability – there are a million different little tricks you can use to make your site more user-friendly, especially when it comes to forms. In this quick tutorial I show you how to setup a form text field contents to be highlighted when clicked on. This allows for quick editing in case you need to replace the contents of the field.
Read more →As any front-end web developer knows, getting IE to play nice with certain layouts can require a bit of hacking and bug fixing. In this article I explain a list item margin bug that causes list elements to be spaced much too far apart in Internet Explorer 6 and how to fix it.
Read more →If you manage your own website on shared hosting, you may have seen two folders with the exact same contents: /www/ and /public_html/. So what’s the difference between the two? Read on to find out.
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