Develop Daly
Web Design, WordPress, and SEO in Dallas, TX
  • About
  • Services
    • Web Design
    • WordPress
      • Hybrid Premium Services
    • SEO
    • Ecommerce for WordPress
  • Blog
    • Archives
  • Portfolio
  • Forums
  • Themes
    • Boxpulse
    • Malleable
    • States
    • WP Full Site
  • Contact
Browse: Home / Yahoo!

Yahoo!

New Standards at Develop Daly

By Patrick Daly on April 10, 2009

A few weeks ago I watched the following video (it’s loooong by the way) and it pretty much changed my life. The lead front-end engineer at Yahoo! goes into detail on how to architect a site from the ground up,…

Posted in Web Design | Tagged Architect, Web Design, Yahoo! | Leave a response

WordPress Tips 2009

WordPress Tips 2009

By Patrick Daly on February 24, 2009

WordPress Tips 2009

I was looking through one of my old posts, Hardcore WordPress Tips, and realized just how outdated it is. It’s just one year old this week and already 5 of the 10 tips I would consider bad…

Posted in WordPress | Tagged Content Management System, Hosting, PHP, Plugins, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines, SEO, Usability, WordPress, Yahoo! | 10 Responses

My Favorite Websites

By Patrick Daly on November 12, 2008

Nearly everyday (or at least multiple times a week) I visit this list of websites. The list is tailored to web design, SEO, & WordPress related sites.

I’ve gained much knowledge from the authors and contributors of these sites and…

Posted in General | Tagged Google, Matt Cutts, Micahel Gray, Smashing Magazine, Yahoo! | Leave a response

Bots Really Like Me Now

Bots Really Like Me Now

By Patrick Daly on October 1, 2008

I have no clue what happened, but two days ago Yahoo! and MSN started crawling my site like crazy. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary but it seems like something clicked on my site. So its been…

Posted in SEO | Tagged Bots, Google, MSN, Yahoo! | Leave a response

Hyperlocal SEO Tips

By Patrick Daly on September 23, 2008

Struggling to beat out your competitors on a national scale is tough to do – taking them on locally ain’t so tough!

You just have to know what to do.

Optimizing your content, but especially the markup of your page,…

Posted in SEO | Tagged Google, Hyperlocal, Semantics, SEO, WordPress, Yahoo! | Leave a response

The 25 Best SEO Tools

By Patrick Daly on September 12, 2008

Also, see WordPress Tips 2009.

Accessibility Checker

Accessibility Check

Make sure your page validates for handicapped users and increase your site usability while ensuring the use of standard SEO practices.

Backlink Analyzer

Backlink Analyzer

Wondering what your inbound links’…

Posted in SEO | Tagged Google, Search Engines, Yahoo! | 3 Responses

Track the Crawl Rate of Spiders on Your Blog

By Patrick Daly on September 6, 2008

Anyone can figure out how often bots visit their site by sifting through their log files everyday and organizing each bot and checking on the timespan between crawling, etc.

But who wants to do that?

Patrick Altoft created the Crawl…

Posted in SEO | Tagged Google, Matt Mullenweg, MSN, PageRank, Technorati, WordPress, Yahoo! | Leave a response

Nofollow Entire Div!

By Patrick Daly on May 6, 2008

Ever wanted to add rel="nofollow" to an entire div? Me too.

Say, for instance, you duplicated your navigation in your footer and you want to nofollow the links, instead of adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to every link, it would make…

Posted in SEO | Tagged Google, SEO, Yahoo! | Leave a response

Blogs You Should Be Reading

By Patrick Daly on April 24, 2008

I’ve filtered through a lot of blogs the past few years. Often I’ll subscribe on a whim, only to find out that 20 posts later I’ve gotten nothing of value from the site, so I’ll remove them from my reader.…

Posted in General | Tagged Blogging, Design, Google, Matt Cutts, Micahel Gray, SEO, Smashing Magazine, WordPress, Yahoo! | Leave a response

Hardcore WordPress Tips

By Patrick Daly on January 28, 2008

Update: See WordPress Tips 2009 for a new & improved list

I’m not the first one to write a post that outlines major WordPress tips and tricks to implement into your WordPress site (or any kind of…

Posted in WordPress | Tagged Blogging, Caching, Google, Matt Cutts, Meta Robots, Micahel Gray, PHP, Search Engines, SEO, WordPress, Yahoo!, YUI Library | Leave a response

Next »

About Develop Daly

Develop Daly is the blog, portfolio, and home of web designer, Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), and WordPress fanatic Patrick Daly. Learn More Patrick Daly

Subscribe via RSS or

Email:

Donate Learn More

I love making WordPress themes and plugins; I hope you enjoy using them! I'd appreciate if you considered a donation to help me continue.

Latest Tweets

  • @johnfischelli agreed. It just depends on if they need help with their name or targeted keword in reply to johnfischelli 4 days ago
  • @johnfischelli h1on home page. Div on all others so the h1 can be used for page title in reply to johnfischelli 5 days ago
  • Waiting for @darcyband to start playing - check 'em out for sure 1 week ago
  • More updates...

Great CSS by Patrick Daly

Latest Posts

  • Scribe SEO Review
  • Scribe
  • New Theme: Malleable
  • Trial: Five $300 PSD > Child Themes
  • What is Your WordPress Experience Level?

Categories

  • Blog
  • Blogging
  • Case Studies
  • ChurchRoot
  • CSS
  • Full Site
  • General
  • Google
  • Lead Maverick
  • Microsoft
  • Portfolio
  • Reputation Management
  • SEO
  • Themes
  • Tips
  • Usability
  • Web Design
  • WordPress
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Themes
  • Yahoo!

Must Reads

  • Child Theme Inclusion in the WordPress Directory
  • Great CSS: Level 1
  • WordPress for Project Management
  • WordPress Tips 2010

Freshbooks Invoicing
Hostgator. The best hosting

Copyright © 2006 - 2010 Develop Daly | Privacy Policy | Hosted by HostGator
Powered by WordPress and Hybrid. Develop Daly web design is based in Corinth, TX -- a suburb of Denton, TX, Dallas,TX.