Hummingbirds, Penguins and Pandas - It's all Semantics Those of you that are here after following my 'How Paid Links Can Kill Your Rankings', and Hummingbird Recovery articles may have noticed I touched upon a subject that won't mean much to most people - semantics. [...]
Why has my Google ranking dropped post-Hummingbird and how can I fix it? If you're remotely interested in SEO you've likely already been shaken by the impact caused by Google's latest update, code name Hummingbird. Google claim this is their single largest update for [...]
Google's latest Penguin update exploded into action yesterday (October 4th), the fifth such update in the last 18 months. The update is said to affect around 1% of search queries to a noticeable degree, according to Matt Cutts, speaking via Twitter. https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/386231794883780609 The Penguin evolution [...]
A common problem when you're moving a blog from one place to another, especially relevant after you've used WordPress' handy built in Import/Export tools to migrate content, is the common error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. This can be extremely [...]
When people take a look at my business card, something that is often mentioned is the oversized black and white square pattern on the back of it. Of course, for those of you in the tech. savvy crowd, you'll know I'm referring to my site's [...]
If you like programming facts and you're a fan of Chuck Norris (I'd dare you to tell him you're not), you may like these. Just a little light hearted humour to beat the midweek blues. Programming Chuck Norris Facts When Chuck Norris throws [...]
Everyone these days claims to be an expert in SEO, but I bet there will be many of you who won't even realise that Google has discontinued one of the most useful and powerful tools in your SEO toolbox. Wondering what it is? I'm talking [...]
Am I A Web Programmer? This article will outline the differences between a website programmer and a web designer (web developer) and hopefully allow you to identify which category you fall into. While web programming and web development (web design) are two separate entities, [...]
Jobcoachingforyou.com was founded in 2013 by Karl Dean, a native English speaker from Manchester but living in Nürnberg Germany since 2010. Prior to founding Job Coaching For You Karl worked in sales, language and communication training and essentially also specialised and also supply chain recruitment [...]
Facebook Status Update Shows Old Information Recently a client of mine had an issue with Facebook and the way the Facebook Lint system picks up information concerning their website when it's shared. Obviously sharing and seeing old site descriptions or images is not ideal, but [...]
I've recently come across a slight problem with one of my clients whereby they wanted the RSS feed widget to open all incoming links in a new window. And why wouldn't they? Especially if they're external RSS feeds that are being parsed. We could have [...]
Most WordPress developers are familiar with Gravity Forms. It's a contact form plugin that allows you to easily build and publish your forms in just minutes, with the minimum of hassle. No mess, just quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and [...]
Should I register multiple domains for my website? It's a question asked to me by my clients on a regular basis, and the answer is one that's changed quite a bit as Google's complex algorithms have evolved. No longer can you fool Google with duplicate [...]
How To Block Timthumb Hack Attempts Like many developers I manage a large number of WordPress sites, and in days gone by I'd use TimThumb to handle my images. Sadly, a few years back this became a huge problem since a TimThumb hack surfaced which [...]
2013 is becoming more and more about typography, and with the emergence of Cufon fonts, Fontface types and Google's font library we're really becoming spoiled for choice. However, a question I am often asked is why Cufon fonts often cut off the top or bottom [...]
Moving into a New Year can be an exciting time and it is only natural that many people will look forward to the exciting new methods that will arise in their industry. There are some industries and businesses that rarely change from year to year [...]
In today's world of instamation™ (instantly available information to the non nerdy) and social connectivity, having a strong presence on the web is crucial for most companies and your website will often be the first point of contact between you and potential customers. This means [...]
It stands to reason that providing video content for your website will be something that your visitors will be happy to see. Video is a far more engaging way to interact with web site visitors and it can save your guests reading through lots of [...]
One of the best things about being a web programmer is that you get to share your knowledge with the programming community out there. Today's little snippet comes in the form of a simple Search and Replace for a string in PHPMyAdmin. Gone are the [...]
Web Design in Frinton on Sea It's been a while since I wrote any SEO related articles, but since I've given my site a minor facelift I thought I'd do a little Google research to see how I'm doing. My previous SEO experiments went pretty [...]
Today was essentially my first experience of Gravity Forms, the WordPress forms plugin and it would be fair to say it came with its fair share of use niggles, but nothing that I couldn't overcome. Here's the three things I found that may help users [...]
A few people have asked me this question, so I thought I would share it with you all (yes, both of you). It's a tiny snippet that's not rocket science and you can find it if you look hard enough, but it's oh, so useful. [...]
Note: This method no longer works as intended due to changes in WordPress and Google maps. However, if you paste the iframe information from the Google maps page, WordPress automatically converts the frame to its own shortcode for you. At least, it's supposed to work [...]
Since re-launching my website a few hours ago, I've already received comment about the quotes that frequent the header area of the site. While some are my own work, much credit has to go to designwashere for their design related ones. I've listed more below [...]
Okay I'll admit it, I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to building websites. I'm acutely aware that I am far too picky and quite often it's up to the client to tell me when enough is enough. "Hey, the first design you sent [...]
This handy function will search and replace all instances of a search term in every file with the PHP extension, across all directories and subdirectories. Upload the file to your root directory and run it. function callbackDir($dir){ $searchString = "searchforthis"; $newValue = "replacewiththis"; // directory, [...]
Unfortunately, the default Recent Comments widget also includes trackbacks and pingbacks and the sight ain’t so lovely thus I had to add this hack to weed out the trackbacks and pingbacks. Open your theme's functions.php file and add the following code if ( !$comments = [...]
Recovering from a WordPress Spam Injection attack is not fun, but you can regain your Google Search Results after being hacked by a spam injection attack. The best policy with Google is to be specific in your explanations. You will need to make sure that [...]
1. Open your index.php and find <?php get_footer(); ?> 2. Place a HTML comment that you can easily recognize, before and after Something like: <!– footer content starts Here –> <?php get_footer(); ?> <!– footer content ends Here –> 3. Visit your blog 4. View the [...]
Creating breadcrumbs in WordPress themes can be a pain. With that in mind, this handy function should be exactly what you need. function waz_breadcrumbs() { $delimiter = '»'; $name = 'Home'; //text for the 'Home' link $currentBefore = '<span>'; $currentAfter = '</span>'; if ( !is_home() [...]
