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WordPress Hybrid Theme and All in One SEO Pack

The WordPress Hybrid Theme is an exceptionally versatile and user-friendly WordPress theme (it’s really a framework more than a theme). It comes standard with various Search Engine Optimization (SEO) options. I love Hybrid and use it on many WordPress powered Websites (this site uses Hybrid with an adapted version of the ‘Old School’ child theme). [...]

To Dofollow or to Nofollow?

Nofollow is an HTML instruction to Search Engines not to consider the link destination as endorsed by the link originator. Google, Yahoo, Bing and other high quality Search Engines use links as one factor in considering the importance of a Webpage. So, very simplistically, if two WebPages are identical except that one has more incoming [...]

WordPress Security Release

WordPress 2.8.3 has been released. It is highly advisable to upgrade as this fixes a potential security vulnerability (upgrading is painless, reliable and takes less than a minute). See http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-release/ for more…

The SEO Experiment

What difference does Search Engine Optimization really make? Is it worth spending the time and money on SEO? From experience it is obvious that SEO is an effective activity however I thought it’d be fun to compare two identical websites; one with a bit of SEO performed and one with very little SEO. I have [...]

How to use GoDaddy Cron Manager for WP-o-Matic

WordPress Wp-O-Matic not working with godaddy? Here is the solution… GoDaddy is used by many people to host their websites. Among the many Tool offered with GoDaddy Linux hosting is a Cron Manager. Cron is very simplistically the Linux / Unix equivalent of Windows ‘Scheduled Tasks’. The GoDaddy version simplifies the usual command based Cron [...]