Thursday, August 27th, 2009
One of the leading experts in search engine marketing offers another interesting piece for you. Recently, we have reviewed their two-disc video labeled Basics. That was a good starter for their next release. SEOmoz Advanced SEO Training Series DVD is hidden in four discs, asking for almost 12 hours of your time. Eight gentlemen and three ladies will guide you in sixteen different chapters through the world of expert SEO.
Panel discussion linking out strategies
This time there are no introductions, we go straight to the action. I have to say most of the speakers are experienced and know how to tell the message to the audience. Especially Rand and Stephan grab your attention immediately. Unfortunately, two or three speakers will remind you boring hours spent with old professors on college (especially Duncan Morris), some others (Danny Sullivan) are trying to act like on TV show so much that it's on the edge of being annoying.
Keep reading Review: SEOmoz Advanced SEO Training DVD
By Martin
SEO |
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
A question which constantly comes up on forums and recently on TidBits talk is how to choose a web hosting company.
The rules are surprisingly simple.
Number one: avoid the bottom tier budget webhosts: they sell on unlimited bandwidth and disk storage. It's simply impossible to fulfill those unlimited promises with quality service
This would include popular hosts like
- BlueHost
- Dreamhost (enter promo code FREEIPFORLIFE to get a dedicated IP for life: $4/month value)
- Hostgator
The above names are actually the best of a bad lot and at least try to serve some customers sometimes unlike the real fly-by-nighters. If you insist on cutting your hosting budget to the bone, your chances of not losing your website or your business go up if you use one of the three above.
Keep reading How to Choose a Hosting Company
By Alec
IT |
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
While developing Foliopress Testimonials (sorry, no link at this time, since it's still in alpha version), I wanted to create a full and easily editable testimonials system, with categories and stuff.
Looking into the issue more I wanted to create own page with testimonials, then even whole structure of pages with different URL for each category. Not realising then all the obstacles (in the end it's not the best solution at all) I started working and immediately ran into problems. First of all, documentation on how WP handles creation of imaginary pages with own URL is very weak. I had to go to source code, poke around the internet to actually do it.
When finally done (lots of work and it was not done for the first time, mainly due to lack of documentation) the system was just not working properly. Testimonials were not in sitemap, since we use external plugin, you'll not find any mention of this page in WordPress administration. These are the main problems, but there are more.
Seeing how that went, I remade the structure to check within posts and pages and search for special text (we in Foliovision use standard "special text" like ["name of plugin" "options"]). This took only a small portion of time and actually works really well. WP can see the page, so any sitemap generator does as well, testimonials can be inserted into any page (with different URL) with as many options as you like. The system for assigning URL is then independent from Foliopress Testimonials structure and that way easily configurable.
The lesson to learn from this is, that staying within WordPress and playing by it's rules just pays off.
By Peter
WordPress |
