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Friday, April 13, 2007

SEOmoz Page Strength Firefox Search Plugin Released

I thought it only fair while learning all about Open Search technology that I wrap up and let loose a Page Strength SEO Tool search plugin for Firefox/Internet Explorer users! I use this tool to measure site ranking metrics on a frequent basis and as I continue to align myself within this field hope to add [...]
Monday, April 9, 2007

dLook’s new “More information” feature for listings

During the week dLook are expecting to release their “More information” pages for all business listings to provide additional information to visitors. This detailed page – accessible through a prominent icon within search and category listings – will include a ramp-up of business data including: Phone Fax Address Website (only available to premium listings) Email address Mobile number As well as, and here’s [...]
Saturday, April 7, 2007

Tracking Data with Server-Side Redirects; Google Analytics

Google Analytics Support sent a fantastic reply during the week to my query over how Analytics tracks traffic across 301 Permanent Redirected/302 Temporary Redirect pages (eg. http://www.michaelvisser.com and http://michaelvisser.com.au). Support recommended to enter the same tracking code (eg. UA-692602-1) on the redirecting page as well as subsequent landing page. What needs to be established is whether [...]
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Quality Assurance within the Web Development Sector

A recent article of mine has been published in seomoz’s UGC, during the piece I’ve highlighted strengths within the active Web builders’ sector as well as notable shortcomings that need to be addressed focusing on defining Quality Assurance procedures. Have a read, QA within the Web development sector.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

HTML CSS Web Developer Toolbox; Text editors

BeyondCompare The best one-on-one file comparison editor hands down. Nothing comes close! Integrating a one-to-one line matching algorithm makes this is the simplest file comparison tool for use on a day-to-day basis. UltraEdit My anything editor. Be it markup for a HTML template or opening some never before seen file ending in an alien extension, UltraEdit’s my choice. [...]
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Making a canonical WordPress site; duplicate content fix

Check that slick looking URL out, it took some fiddling and an hour of downtime to get this site to the stable state it is now in. Here’s the run through of how to convert your http://www.* format site URL (http://www.michaelvisser.com.au) to a single canonical source http://* (http://michaelvisser.com.au) for SE spiders. Update your WordPress site details Apply [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

List of Australian online local business directories

I can’t have been the only one to notice Australia lacking a definitive list of free and paid local Internet business directories! I’ve crawled the most popular terms and sifted through some terrible directories while compiling this article but here it is, use it for good. I have applied notes to directories that apply link condoms (rel=”external [...]
Saturday, March 17, 2007

Margin and padding explained; CSS tutorial

Let’s step back and start at the basics, in order to understand these element properties it’s best to remove any background confusion. Internet browsers (eg. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Camino, …) typically apply their own default values to page elements, this is done to create a standard experience across non-styled pages. We need to disable these [...]

SEsc: The week in SEM, March 17, 2007

This weeks articles are from SEOCLASS and seomoz’s Blog/User Generated Blog (the staff of seomoz don’t write it so its not one source really…). 11 Local Search Tips for New York City Websites – SEOCLASS.com A great primer on building links with local organisations/directories and use of localised terms. My Fantasy Baseball Addiction Parallels Why I Love SEO [...]
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Wordpress 2.1.2 permission bug workarounds

You: “Pesky spammers filling up my comment moderation queue… this’ll teach them!” WordPress: “You don’t have permission to do that.” So it’s more widespread that I first thought, this permissions issue applies when attempting to delete a category, remove a comment as well as adding a category. Deleting a post or page From the Mange > Posts or Manage [...]