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Ever wanted to check the versions of all WordPress sites running on your server? We’ve built a handy plugin to do just that. The plugin simply scans through all the home directories on your server looking for WordPress installations and reports them all to you notifying you whether they’re running the latest version or need [...]

Below is a keyword checklist to ensure that you follow the basic top tips to optimise your pages correctly including existing, main pages and secondary ones so to present them to the search engines in a acceptable manner, generally accepted search engine algorithm rules. URL: Get your primary keyword as close to the beginning of [...]

Ensure that your primary keywords are going to be seen and spidered first. When the Search Engine Bots/Spiders visit your site the first read the source code just as we read a books title from the top downwards. It is known that Bots/Spiders place more relevance to keywords and phrases which are at the top [...]

If you want your website to climb the Google ladder then you need to develop your website ethically within the guide lines and be prepared to be patient and never take Unnecessary risks with short term tactics with potentially ‘Black Hat’ practices. If you want climb the Google Ladder and improve your organic rankings then [...]

Crazy as that statement may sound at first there are some parallels to be drawn from it. Like a baby, a website needs care and a great deal of attention and feeding all the time. Like a Baby, a website needs training and teaching to be strong and self supporting and to be educated Like [...]

Affiliate – A marketing program which enables webmaster to place banner ads on the website and received a referal fee or commisson when customers click on the link to visit the merchants website. AJAX – Asynchronous Javascript And XML is an approach to using a combination of technologies (such as Javascript, DOM, XML, XMLHttpRequest) to [...]

The use of very small and virtually unreadable text smaller than Font size #2 is normally reserved for legal notices and copyright information The font size generally used on your website should be much larger and anything from 6 points to 10 is normal and customary. For example if you view the following Point 6 [...]

Do any of these statements sound familiar? I noticed that your site is not showing in the top 20 for leading search phrases and thought you ought to know. If you want to do something about this and get more sales from your website then you need to take some action and check out this [...]

The use of hidden doorway pages used to be a trick employed by crafty web masters several years ago and some still try today to fool the Search Engines. Today the Search engines have caught up with such trick and mostly forged ahead of webmasters tricks which has turned this into a cat and mouse [...]