Archive for September, 2008

In How To Fight WordPress Comment and Trackback Spams, I shared several techniques that you could use to reduce the amount of comment and trackback spams that hit your blog.  Spams are not getting through on my blogs, but it’s still a pain to review for false positives among spams caught by Akismet. Fortunately, there’s [...]

Okay, you have launched your blog, and you have been pouring your heart and soul into it.  You are gaining readers, made new friends, and enjoying the overall experience.  Since nobody can blog forever, have you ever thought about what you’ll do down the road?  I haven’t thought about this until a friend (DebtKid) asked [...]

I occasionally come across new bloggers who are eager to generate traffic to their blog.  They become focused on blog promotion and SEO before their blog is ready. I applaud their efforts, but I think it’s a mistake to promote your blog to prematurely.

Photo by Kelly Asmodee via Flickr
A good web site should serves a [...]

A domain is a hierarchical system use to define an Internet location or set of addressable computers.
The first part of a domain name is called the Top Level Domain (TLD). This is typically the last two or three letters that represent the geographical or section of the Internet.
Major domain suffixes are:

.edu - Educational Institutions;
.gov - [...]

The description of a web site in a web directory or search engine. Human-edited web directories usually compose a description after reviewing the site. Crawlers may use the description embedded in the page’s code or meta description tag.

Deep linking is a direct link to any web page that is not the start page (index page, or home page) within a web site. This technique bypasses the usual “access route”, and some site administrator do not like this — i.e., advertisment pages are bypassed.
However, deep linking, in combination with keywords rich anchor text [...]

Dead link is a link which doesn’t lead to a web page or web site, probably because the web server is down or the page has moved or no longer exists. Dead link makes your site looks unprofessional and should be avoided. One of the free tool you can use to check dead link [...]

Conversion ratio is the ratio of visitors from your web site that are “converted” into a sale or a lead. A conversion ratio of 5% would mean that for every 100 visitors to your site, 5 would click-through and turn into a sale or a lead.
Many factors will influence the conversion ratio, including the product [...]

In search engine result pages, clustering is the grouping of multiple web pages from the same web site into one or two listings in order to improve search result by preventing a particular web site to dominate the search result. This also makes the list of results clearer and more useful to the user, [...]

Blind link is a link, either text or banner, that misleads the consumer — i.e., it takes you to some destination other than what you had expected. A common example is the “Choose your favorite color” or “Punch the monkey” banner.