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New Standards at Develop Daly
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,…
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I was looking through one of my old posts, Hardcore WordPress Tips, and realized just how outdated it is.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 information.…
My Favorite Websites
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…
Bots Really Like Me Now
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…
Hyperlocal SEO Tips
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,…
The 25 Best SEO Tools
Also, see WordPress Tips 2009.
Accessibility Checker
Make sure your page validates for handicapped users and increase your site usability while ensuring the use of standard SEO practices.
Backlink Analyzer
Wondering what your inbound links’ anchor…
Track the Crawl Rate of Spiders on Your Blog
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…
Nofollow Entire Div!
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…
Blogs You Should Be Reading
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.…
