Site Tips & Tricks
How to Show eBay Auctions in Wordpress - The Quick and Easy Way with phpBay Pro
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008How to show eBay auctions in Wordpress is the subject of many emails that I receive from my clients. Most of my users are non-technical. They start researching this subject and quickly see “scary” words like API, RSS and XML.
Instantly they hit a mental block, and dismiss it as too difficult.
I am telling you here [...]
Back Up Your Web Site - This is Critical
Friday, March 7th, 2008*** This post is intended for everybody ***
Backup your web site is critical. Its common sense I know, but I also know its human nature to think “it will never happen to me”. Sods Law says it will :-(
Disk drives are mechanical … and they break.
We do an automatic, global, daily backup of the entire [...]
Keyword Research Tools - Your Choices are Critical for Your Pages to Succeed
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Keyword research tools are what I would like to cover today.
There is debate in the internet marketing community as to which comes first, keyword selection, or niche selection. Do you find nice keywords first and then find the market and build your site around them, or do you find a niche with a nice hungry [...]
Pingoat for Fast Site Indexing on Search Engines
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Pingoat, a very weird name for a very handy service.
If you have built websites then you know that you can wait absolute ages for your site to appear in the search engines. Thats the old web. Nowadays, it is possible to have your site spidered by search engines very quickly and easily.
In the case of [...]
Peel Away Ads - Highly Effective Advertising on Your Web Site
Monday, February 25th, 2008Hi Everyone
Its been a while since my last post, so today I would like to share with you something that I have recently found, and that I think will help just about any site.
One of the hardest things to do with your web site is to quickly capture your visitors attention, and to get them [...]
The robots.txt and favicon.ico files
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008This post is intended for everyone.
These are 2 little known files that the huge majority of webmasters forget to include in their web sites. I think the reason why most people forget about them is that they need to be created manually … none of the HTML editors that I know of create them automatically.
ROBOTS.TXT
The [...]