On June 10, one of my servers was down for more than 24 hours. That’s really a horrible nightmare to me considering the fact that I have more than 40 websites hosted on that server. Why I didn’t take action to rectify the problem earlier? My hosting company has informed me earlier that they will be performing [...]
Danny Sullivan posted in his blog on Jun. 11, 2008 at 4:02pm Eastern Time: Additionally, we want to migrate away from the current platform (Movable Type) and adopt the WordPress platform to power the blog and serve as an overall CMS for the site. The emphasis here is on security, usability (front and back-end), search [...]
Take advantage of alt tags for all of your images. Make sure the alt text is descriptive and unique. For instance, alt text such as “picture1″ or “logo” doesn’t provide much information about the image. “Charting the path of stock x” and “Company Y” give more details. It’s important to use alt text for any [...]
Quantcast claims to be the only open internet ratings service. They provide advertisers with audience profiles for millions of websites and services. Web publishers are invited to participate and demonstrate the unique value of their audiences. This service is free to everyone. Why you should use this tool? Danny Sullivan uses it at his SearchEngineLand. That should [...]
Google provides a free sitemap generator called Google Sitemap Generator. It is a Python script that creates a Sitemap for your site using the Sitemap Protocol. This script can create Sitemaps from URL lists, web server directories, or from access logs. But if you do not know how to use this script, you can try the sitemap [...]
