Conversion rate optimization is now more of an exact science thanks to Google’s adoption of microformats. Maximize the effectiveness of your snippets on search engine result pages.
Google & Microformats: Drive More Traffic
Backing up your WordPress blog with ease
I love the fact how the WordPress community is growing, and how people are starting to see the business models they can roll out around the product. And yes, all of this while still maintaining the GPL. We’ve of course seen Gravity Forms, which for me has replaced entirely my own WordPress contact form and…
DirJournal: a directory still worth submitting to
Back in the “old” days, we used to submit our sites to a couple hundred directories, and they’d rank like “instantly”. Those days are long gone, and with it most of the crappy directories that we used. Some directories survived though, and of them, Directory Journal, has asked me to do a sponsored review of…
Unleashing Quix
I’ve been working on a secret (side) project for 3-4 months now, way longer than I ever intended to work on it, but it’s now ready for release. I’m ready to show you Quix, a tool I think is very cool, which I’ve shared with quite a few of my friends already who all like…
Checking Blog Privacy Settings
As a result of last nights post, I dove in and added a check to my Robots Meta plugin that checks whether you’re allowing search engines to spider your site. If not, it’ll throw an ugly warning on each and every page until you fix it: The code for it is easy, and as I’d…
Web Designer Mag should fix its SEO
Ok I just had to post this, as it’s too funny. I got a Google Alert this afternoon for this post, which mentioned one of my plugins as being listed by Web Designer Magazine. So, I Googled them, as the post didn’t link to them, and got this result: Notice something? I know I did:…
Preventing your site from being indexed, the right way
It keeps amazing me that I keep seeing people use robots.txt files to prevent sites from being indexed and thus showing up in the search engines. You know why it keeps amazing me? Because robots.txt doesn’t actually do the latter, even though it does prevent your site from being indexed. Let’s go through some terms…
Rankings that make sense
We’ve written about rankings here before, for instance: how to track them with Google Analytics, part I and part II and even why they are worthless (the latter post by Eduard, who has, starting december 1st, joined us at OrangeValley!!), on top of that, I was using this rank tracker all the time! But today,…
WordCamp NL Presentation
I recently gave a presentation at WordCamp NL, and that presentation was fully recorded, you can view it here: [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7996120[/vimeo] Hope you enjoy it!
Google Analytics plugin updates
One of my most popular plugins is my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, having been downloaded almost 700,000 times. This post is to let you know that this plugin is going to be getting quite a few updates in the coming month, the first of which I’ve just submitted to WordPress.org. There’s two reasons for…
