Archive for June, 2010
5 Digg Plugins for WordPress
Monday, June 28th, 2010Digg is a powerful social bookmarking website that allows people to share interesting blog posts and more. This can be used to your advantage on your WordPress blog with multiple different plugins that provide Digg users with the ability to easily post it to their Digg accounts.
Digg Widget – This is a very nice plugin that is designed to display the last 10 posts that have been sent to Digg by readers. This is very useful for blogs with plenty of information in many different posts.
Digg Protector – This is a special plugin to produce the opposite effect of what Digg is for. It protects your blog from server overload when your post has been Dugg.
WP Conditional Digg This Badge – This is a special plugin that allows a Digg badge to be displayed on your posts that have already been Dugg. This is very useful to prevent showing low number Digg counts on your posts if they have not met a certain amount yet.
Digg Digg – This is a very useful plugin that integrates a large amount of social bookmarking website icons including the Digg site on your page for easy sharing by others.
Digg Integrate – This is a very simple plugin that allows you to add a “Digg this” button on your post with a simple interface. Very easy to use and is useful to get many extra readers if your posts are Dugg.
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2011 SEO and Mobile Industry Predictions
Saturday, June 26th, 2010- Blurring of the distinctions between SEO, social and mobile, as social data and mobile user experience data continue to supplement the core search ranking algorithms. Brands who build a positive user experience to mobile and social users today will benefit as more of this data is used to refine the algorithms.
- With Marissa Mayer�s transition to local at Google, increased emphasis on making information offline more visible, to both desktop and mobile searchers. Image search optimization and local search optimization will see a resurgence, as more mobile searchers use Google Goggles and other augmented reality apps to discover more about the world around them with visual search.
- Deepening rift between small business SEOs and enterprise SEOs, as Google and Bing continue to incorporate brand demand into the way they refine the ranking algorithms and user interface. Industry regulation from outside may result if the industry does not self-regulate.
- Growing alliance between search engines and white hat SEOs will continue to help ethical SEOs help their clients build content in a way that provides a positive user experience for Google users, and a positive return for the client. Would not be surprised to see a Google Webmaster Tools certification program, similar to the Google Analytics and AdWords certification programs that exist today; and agency support for SEO departments at enterprise firms. Worth noting that I’ve been hoping for this since 2007, and while the Webmaster consoles have grown quite a bit, we’re still not where I think we should be.
- De-emphasis on link building techniques that rely excessively on reverse engineering the ranking algorithm, and more on executing content creation and promotion campaigns that generate positive PR and ROI
- Given Google�s rich snippets and acquisition of Metaweb in July 2010, and a growing importance on image and video search with products like Google Goggles and YouTube, I expect to see a de-emphasis on keyword-based search in favor of relevant results based on semantic relationships and social data
- Continued de-emphasis of rankings as search engines continue to use personalization as a strong signal of relevance. Marketers will continue to develop ways of helping users promote content within personalized results, and focus on metrics like natural search impressions, clicks, CTR, conversion rate and others to demonstrate the business value of natural search
- Mobile marketers will turn more to search data to define the mobile user, instead of making generalizations based on industry data and personal acquaintances
- As mobile advertising continues to grow, mobile marketers will turn increasingly to organic means of mobile promotion, including social media and search
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Hope everyone has a happy holiday! More interesting things to come in 2011, including some changes for this blog, and a deep dive into best practices for mobile search optimization, possibly in book form. See you in 2011.
Natural Search & Mobile SEO Blog
The CurdBee Weekly #6 with Anders Haig
Friday, June 25th, 2010After hiatus for the holidays, we’re back with the first CurdBee Weekly of the year, featuring CurdBee user, hacker and advocate, Anders Haig. He takes us through what he does for a living and then shows us just how cool hacking the CurdBee API can be. Enjoy!
Hi Anders, and welcome to the CurdBee Weekly. Tell us a little about yourself!
I’m a web developer and business owner based in Iowa City, IA. I get to work from home full time doing work I love so I couldn’t be happier. I run a number of small companies (a local entertainment directory, greeting card company and Facebook fan page management service) so I stay busy and need to keep organized. Prior to using Curdbee, invoicing and getting paid on time was a nightmare. Now, things are a lot easier to track and I get more time to do fun stuff rather than administration.
What’s Minim Group and what do you do there?
Minim Group is my freelance web development business. We offer quite a few different service but focus on small business and web application design & development with a pretty strong Facebook focus in addition. I’m all over the place with a few additional designers and developers as needed.
That’s a neat little status board app you’ve written using the CurdBee API. What made you do it?
Until a few weeks ago, I’d have 5-6 different tabs open at all times to keep track of what was going on with my work. I built the status board to aggregate all that data so now I’ve just got a single window to look at and get information at a glance. Using the Curdbee API, I was able to list the most recent invoices and their status so I can tell if someone has paid or what I’m still waiting on. In the future, I hope to add a simple interface to send invoices and quick reminders from my status board as well.
The simple status board Anders built to keep a track of his business activities.
How easy was it to use our API, and if you could give us one suggestion on improving it, what would it be?
I had a very easy time developing with it and as I created my status board in Sinatra, the available gem and examples were a huge help. As far as improving it, I’m afraid I’ve got nothing to offer you on that front right now. I just spent the last 10 minutes looking through the API documentation again and can’t find any additional features I’d request, nor have I had any trouble with the current features. In comparison with the Basecamp or Facebook APIs, I had a much easier time integrating it with my work (of course, everyone’s experience may differ).
What advice would you give a new developer who is just starting out with the CurdBee API?
I’d say just look at the documentation or examples in the Gem repository on Github. Everything you need is there. It’s got enough similarity to other APIs that it should feel very familiar to work with.
What are your favorite CurdBee features and which Modules do you use?
I currently use the Pro Edition, Estimates and Authorize.net modules. I added the Estimates module only recently and it’s made estimating new projects easier to track and more professional. In the past, I’d have to go back, search my email and find an old estimate once I started a project and now it’s easy to track in one place. Authorize.net has been great for me as well and I can’t recommend it enough. Other things that I use a lot include multiple contacts for clients, the custom domain URL and discounts and taxes.
What other software do you use on a daily basis?
I use Basecamp for project management, PulseApp to track cash flow, Github to manage project assets, Dropbox to back up my files and a whole other host of development software and custom web applications.
Anders’ workspace: where the magic happens.
What is #1 on your CurdBee feature wish list for 2011?
While I don’t expect any advanced graphs or reports, it would be nice to be able to view a yearly or monthly total without just looking at the invoices and computing the amounts. With partial payments, some of the income falls into one tax period while the other portion falls into another tax period. It’s not extremely difficult to manage but requires me to open and look at each invoice history individually when working out income.
It’s always a pleasure to talk to our users, and we’re really glad that Anders took the time to have a chat with us. Stay tuned for more from your fellow CurdBeans in the weeks to come!
Speaking at SMX West 2011 in San Jose
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Very happy to announce that I’ll be speaking again this year at SMX West in San Jose, CA. This will be my third year speaking at the event, and it’s always a very informative, very fun three days.
If you’ve never been before, there really is something for everyone. I’m primarily interested in the Enterprise SEO sessions, but they have several tiers in the agenda so that anyone can learn something, regardless of knowledge level. If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to read through Chris Sherman’s insider’s preview for a better sense of why you should join us.
The session I will be presenting at is all about multiplatform search behavior, and I’ll be going deep on a topic that is near and dear to me: mobile search behavior. If you were intrigued by some of my past ruminations on how mobility changes search behavior and you want to hear more, keep your schedule open that last slot of March 9. As old as mobile search is, I really think this is the beginning of something that will deeply affect how SEOs and SEMs create and optimize campaigns. Getting up to speed today prepares you even better for the future. If you’re an SEO, think about Eric Ward’s link building work for Amazon.com in the early days of the Internet. It’s impossible to get in early as a link builder these days, but if you had the chance to attend a link building seminar with Eric Ward in 1998, wouldn’t you? In some ways, mobile and multiplatform search behavior is the link building of today. Marketers who understand how to take advantage of it today will have an advantage for years to come.
Hope to see you there!
Natural Search & Mobile SEO Blog
7 Pagination Plugins for WordPress
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Pagination is important for any blog that does not need a large list of comments on a single page. It also offers the ability to index multiple “pages” of comments on popular search engines.
Paginated Comments – This plugin is designed to allow you to break up your comments into pages that are designed with search engine optimization in mind. It is a very powerful tool for blogs with large amounts of comments on their posts.
Paginator – This is a very neat plugin that is designed to allow you to scroll through pages with the paginator3000 navigation system. It optimizes the ability to scroll through the WordPress blog.
Category Pagination Fix – This fixes an important issue with pagination in the WordPress 2.7 installation that makes the pagination of pages return 404 not found messages by fixing the links once they are created.
Styled Pagination – This plugin allows you to add images and more to the pagination process of your WordPress blog. This is very useful in creating more aesthetically pleasing blog pagination.
Proper Pagination – This is a very flexible tool for WordPress blog developers that allows for the ability to add several functions such as archive, category, search tags and much more.
Custom Pagination – This is a very nice plugin that allows you to set images for the next and last page pages of your WordPress blog. Was developed for use with dating sites but is very useful for many other uses!
WP Paginate – Increases the navigation possibilities of your WordPress blog and is very useful to help readers get where they want to be on your site. It is very flexible and can also paginate comment sections.
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Memorable Products in Tablet History
Monday, June 21st, 2010The term of a tablet device has become more and more popular in our society since Apple unveiled the “iPad”. However, the idea for a tablet PC has appeared for a long time. Let’s have a look at these photos as following to see the failure as well as the success in the history of tablet computing. TAGS: Microsoft Tablet PC, The Dynabook, GRiDPad, Tandy Zoomer, Apple Newton MessagePad, Compaq TC1000
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5 Sitemap Generator Plugins for WordPress
Friday, June 18th, 2010A sitemap generator is a tool that can be used to list all of the pages of your WordPress blog to easily be accessed by web crawlers and search engines such as Google or Yahoo and many more services.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin is designed to create special XML sitemaps that can be easily indexed by many different search engines. This helps to maintain a much better method for search engines to catalogue every page of your site.
Really Simple Sitemap – This is a very simple sitemap generator that creates the links in an easy to find and index format for most search engines.
Google Sitemaps – Append UTW Tags – This plugin is designed to be used in conjunction with the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and appends the tags onto the sitemap links for better indexing of your WordPress blog site.
Karailiev’s Sitemap – This is a plugin that specializes in making XML sitemaps and news sitemaps for your website for better Google and other search engine indexing of your website.
Dragon Design Sitemap Generator – This is a sitemap generating plugin that has support for multiple levels, permalinks and so much more and is highly customizable as a “true sitemap generator”.
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