People often write about how to increase your search engine ranking by using noindex and nofollow meta tags to avoid indexing of links & pages that lead to duplicate content, and robots.txt files to invite the search engines in, but what if you don’t want your site indexed at all? This is useful for private [...]

When I mention to friends that I have been working on a lot of blogs lately, they frequently ask me why anyone would want a blog. This is often followed by a question about whether or not it’s all just stream of consciousness nonsense that there is no reason to care about. My answer to [...]

So, you’ve got your blog up and running, and now it’s time to understand the difference between pages and posts. In terms of your site’s navigation, Pages stay in the same place all the time. Some themes make the links to Pages more prominent than other themes. Pages do no go out as part of [...]

Many of my clients, including clients who are putting up blogs, don’t seem to understand what RSS is. In a nutshell, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. In fact, if you use WordPress or another blog that supports outgoing RSS, your posts are automatically available for syndication. Pretty simple. So, what does that mean?