In the first first post of this series, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites...
Read more →In the first first post of this series, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites...
Read more →In my last post, I pointed out that SEO companies sell features that can be done easily by most people, thus avoiding cost. As a reminder, those 4 simple, easy-to-accomplish techniques are: Having a descriptive domain name Creating and submitting a sitemap Descriptive titles and meaningful content Getting other websites to link to you...
Read more →Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies promise big money (for those using their services, naturally). They toss around figures about tens of millions of online searches every day that could be generating thousands of dollars in revenue, but only if your site ranks high enough on searches – only if you act now, no time...
Read more →One of my customers alerted me to the fact that permalinks (such as the “recent posts” section on the sidebar) weren’t working on a sub-blog on their multisite installation. Instead they got a “Page not found” error. I did a quick bit of poking around and found that none of the permalinks on any...
Read more →One of my clients runs a modest sales site… (cough! shamelessly promoting bathroomonkey.com! cough!) …and today was apparently upgraded Wednesday. Both WordPress (3.1.2) and WP-ecommerce (3.8.2) needed to be updated. Problem 1: The WordPress failed with “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of…”. I tried the php.ini trick (it had worked for me in the...
Read more →The Problem I’ve got a client with a multi-site installation of WordPress, who decided they needed to email both newsletters and individual blog posts not only from the main site, but from each sub-site as well. MailPress seemed like the best choice, so I went with it. Installing and (Network) activating the plugin went...
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