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Powering… not the right word. I power this blog but I do use some plug-ins.
Yes, this blog is built on WordPress. I’ve been asked a few times what plug-ins I use so I’ll list them out and link to where you can get them.
Here’s what I use and what they do: Read the rest of this entry »
Sloppy and unethical SEO’s are walking a fine line between competitive SEO and committing crimes.
I’m getting a lot of queries for some terms that most wouldn’t see on this site for the posts containing those words are now deep inside.
I’m also getting a lot of hits from known ip’s that are watching and waiting for an opinion or observation about a current happening in the SEO world concerning a niche I don’t work within anymore – real estate.
Yes, I’m following it. Want my opinion?
Yes, you can detect when an iPhone or iPod Touch is browsing your website, and direct them to an iPhone friendly version.
Just insert the following code in the header of your page and amend it to address your target (iPhone version) location.
UPDATED – As of iPhone Safari 2, the script isn’t accurate. The new Updated script is here.
Thanks to Chris Bailey at Used Boats for bringing this to attention and re-writing the script for us.
I’ve been irritated seeing websites that say “If you’re using an iPhone, click here” – C’mon, people don’t want to go through that and coders need to anticipate this. Seamless to users and polishes your project.
The collective wish of billions of searches.
Google Sets provides lists of what your users type into a search box to find – hopefully you.
So make your post/site/page relevant to what not only what YOU want it to be about, but those looking for you.
If I’m going to write a post that I want to rank for a given term, say… SEO – I need to Read the rest of this entry »
Many (very many) have used my iPhone web app template but I’ve added a few enhancements. Hopefully you come back to find it. It lists some tips for coding your site, corrects some paragraph layout bugs since version 1.1.1, adds custom web clips icons and is now quicker loading. It has examples built in to link to phone numbers and maps too. Oh, and audio/video files without flash.
Comments on this is closed, just refer to the original post. Enjoy the template!
Remember, if coding is intimidating, you can use Wordpress to build an iPhone website too.
Real quick iPhone and Touch developers.
If you want to have a custom icon shown on the home screen when someone makes a web-clipping of your site instead of a thumbnail of the page, it’s very easy. Not only does it polish off your efforts, it also makes the clipping more useful for your users.
It’s a two step process.
I couldn’t resist.
You all know I develop for the iPhone as well as my “real job” – so here’s the predictable follow-up article for the color picker post below.
After presenting the color picker tool, I ported it to the iPhone. I thought it would be handy for client meetings, especially for those Read the rest of this entry »
Web designers, I’m offering a color-picker tool today. It’s linked over on the sidebar for easy reference if you want to use it later.
Web designers can add this to their site for their clients. If a client finds a color palette desirable for their web site, the three RGB numbers can be used to apply actual HEX values to the client web site, assuring a perfect match with the client wish.
Feel free to use it here, or use it in your own web site.
I was given a book called “Bullies Be Gone” a few days ago and told that It’s not fair that I get to have a monopoly on being a {you pick the expletive}. I did read it and yes, it’s a good book about managing hostile work environments, relationships and such. I learned I need to give thanks once in a while.
So, to my 2007 peeps that helped me grow, Thanks! That means you Russ, Ric, Patrick, Kim, Steve, Norris, Mick, Sarah, Brian, Eric, Seth, Bob, Chris, Barb, Barbara, Ben, Alan, Melinda, John, Jim, Judy, Mike, Jason, Cindy, Chrissy, Ed, Doug, Deborah, Eyvonne, Sal, Susan, Ilan, Linda, Cathy, the “never to be named” and the greatest real estate agent in the world.
Jimmy has been motivating me lately (I really need my beach), thought I’d share a great 7 min clip “Far Side of The Word” – a classic song with a great video track.
Huh? You wanted an SEO article? There’s one below this one. Relax! Jimmy will help.
WordPress by default will let Ping-o-matic know you have updated posts and then ping a few other services.
A ‘Ping’ is a basic program that lets you verify that a particular Internet address exists and can accept requests. The verb ping in the Blog world means the act of notifying a service you have updated content.
So once you’ve updated your blog, you should let such a service know that you have your blog has been updated – so Ping more of them! Read the rest of this entry »
For those who groan at braggadociuos posts just move on. (Most likely to a different site)
Several days ago I threw up a video on Denver in 3D using Google Earth. Coincidentally, I experienced the same thing personally yesterday.
Yes, this is skite, but there’s nothing like being picked up in a helicopter by a beauty and shown your domain from the air. Instead of a shot from the private strip to tower we meandered through our city, toured Red Rocks and the Hogbacks and landed literally in the back yard of Read the rest of this entry »
I couldn’t resist.
You all know I develop for the iPhone as well as my “real job” – so here’s the predictable follow-up article for the color picker post below.
Apple accepted it – nice.
After presenting the color picker tool, I ported it to the iPhone. I thought it would be handy for client meetings, [...]
I’ve talked to many about video and websites, WordPress and how to put it all together.
Many people have discovered that embedding a YouTube video to their WordPress blog theme can break it up. True. Though fixing it in the code view of your article is one solution, there’s great little plugin that will [...]
Starbucks is the second office to many, especially me. It’s great for meetings and banter. The atmosphere is wonderful and caters to the family as well. My iPhone gives me the opportunity to capture the oddities of my town while appearing to be working. SEO is a little more difficult than [...]
Chances are, if you use Adwords, you’re spending way too much
Cat Seda released another internet marketing book recently called How To Win Sales and Influence Spiders. I said before that there are
You love your iPhone, but like me, you may have began to see some stuck pixels. Stuck pixels are not dead pixels – they’re stuck on a color and don’t refresh with screen redraws.
“Solutions” abound on the web to try to fix the stuck pixels on your iPhone but they are silly and uses [...]
I wrote a silly article in November about using template pics for a website, and how they can hurt you when it comes to trust on the internet.
Well, I found her again, not my favorite customer service babe, but she’s getting very popular. This one is from a real estate service – this chick [...]
I met a colleague at Starbucks this morning and he had a copy of “How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders” by Catherine (Cat) Seda with him.
Check it out over there —->
Considering I was recently bantering with her on another blog a few days ago about the differences between SEO and “Web Marketing”, I had [...]
It amazes me how often people search for themselves by name on the Internet. Are these people paranoid? Scared? Guilty?
Server logs and tracking scripts give such insight to the psychology of web surfers- from what they search for, what interests them, where they work to their actual internet usage – it’s all [...]
I was asked recently by a company if it were possible to build a simple web app to display the images from their web cameras to an iPhone web app so the employer could watch his property while away via his iPhone.
It really is simple, I built a quick web app using the Knox iPhone [...]
You’ve heard it, you wonder what it is, yet you don’t ask. (I understand, you would sound silly)
Web 2.0 is a new animal, a new kind of web build – a new experience. Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as a “second generation of services available over the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate [...]
Real quick iPhone and Touch developers.
If you want to have a custom icon shown on the home screen when someone makes a web-clipping of your site instead of a thumbnail of the page, it’s very easy. Not only does it polish off your efforts, it also makes the clipping more useful for your users.
It’s [...]
Real Estate Webmasters has a good tutorial on how to an honest 301 redirect for a denver real estate client of theirs. The reason for doing it is honest and it’s a good place to learn the correct process with Google. Check out Morgan’s article to learn about it.
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