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  • How to Sell Ads With the Help of BSA

    How to Sell LInks

    Like it or not, you’ll face the issue of selling ads one day. How to sell ads you ask? You got me. That’s exactly what I’ll dwell on in this post. 🙂 It may be your own decision or your boss’s but that’s beside the point in this context. I stumbled upon this problem or challenge for that matter the other day and I’d like to share the methods that I used. I do understand that writing a post on how to sell links may be a bad idea if Google starts thinking that I’m selling links but I hope that Google is not that clever yet. 🙂 So, fingers crossed and let’s move on.

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  • Chrome SEO Plugins That You Wanna Use

    Chrome SEO

    As an SEO you need to keep track of all sorts of changes that are constantly happening (thanks Google!). And I can’t really imagine how that would be possible without all sorts of software out there. Judging from what I learned from my buddies and just acquaintances in the realm of search engine optimization we all start using Google Chrome. Once you go Chrome, you never come back. If you’re one of us, congrats! You can walk out only when the Google Chrome Moon is up in the sky. I’ll start from the plugins that I personally use day in, day out. And the really cool thing about my post is that I’m gonna explain how and when exactly I use each of them … (more…)

  • The most effective ways to improve blog SEO

    Dude and chick

    So how to make clients find your business online? It goes without saying that your website must be popular. Our team conducted an independent investigation and now we are happy to share the most effective ways to improve your blog SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Using the following techniques will inevitably lead to more Google love and as a result more traffic. These SEO tips will be most useful for start-up projects and beginner bloggers. If you are the owner of a popular and hyped website, check if you use all the methods out there. Maybe some of them are worth adding to your skill-set! (more…)

  • Best WordPress Plugins and a Bit of History

    Wordpress Plugins

    This is a guest post by Teyona Dame.
    While there are numerous technology companies that generate millions of dollars by licensing proprietary software, there are only a handful of organizations that focus on developing free open source software. Among others, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds pioneered the concept of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) development. They believed in the freedom of choosing between proprietary software packages and free software. Another such modern open source pioneer is Matt Mullenweg, who is the founder of the openhearted WordPress Foundation. (more…)

  • How to Create an HTML/PHP Contact Form (Part One)

    Contact form basics

    In this series of tutorials, we’ll try to cover most of the aspects of a well-coded and secure HTML/PHP contact form. Even if you’re not familiar with PHP and have only basic knowledge of HTML, that will be totally enough. First, let’s think of why you would actually need a contact form on your site? Well… if you’re running a business, there should be a way for customers to contact you and discuss the project or prices with you. Of course, there can be any other reason you would want that on your website. Since we want everything to be as easy-to-follow as possible, we’ll do one thing at a go. Today, we’ll just create a basic layout for our contact form. (more…)

  • How to Create Simplistic WordPress Themes

    Wordpress logo

    If you’re new to WordPress (WordPress development virgin as some say) and you consider the job of a WordPress developer, you may have the question about how exactly WordPress themes work and how they are structured. In other words, you just want to get a general idea about the whole shebang. Does that sound like you? Keep on reading in that case. And one more thing actually. This post is not about how to build simplistic WordPress themes from top to bottom. The aim of the post is just to give you a general idea so that you know what you’re doing and learn more later.
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  • HTML Editor: Which One You Should Use?

    HTML Editor
    I’m going to help you choose the best HTML editor for your needs. The basic thing in web design and development is that you need to switch on your monitor…. well, not exactly just that. 🙂 In fact, if you’ve decided to mess around with HTML and become a web design guy or a web developer, you need to start from learning HTML. Sure thing, not just that either, but you’ll need foremost HTML in the very beginning. Once you’re comfortable with it, you can go further and learn CSS, PHP and some other good stuff. (more…)

  • Three Alternatives To Guest Posting

    Three Alternatives To Guest Posting

    It’s funny that this topic comes in the form of a guest post, but there are many alternatives when it comes to link building that have to do with other things besides guest posting. Some SEOs (or link marketers if you like that term better) start saying that the rage of guest posting is coming to an end. This method is just sometimes being overused. And if an overuse gets obvious, it’s time to suspect a Google update that will change something about that, though I’m not sure how they will do it with guest blogging. In fact, sometimes guest posting is just not a viable option at all. This is because of a few main reasons.

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  • The Easy Way to Find the Best Web Design Services

    Colorful pencils

    There are thousands of SEO and webdesign/development companies online today, all of them are claiming to have the best web design services in the world (some even mention the Universe for that matter). How do you know who to trust? The simplest way is to look at who the company is, the recognition they’ve received, what services they offer and take the time to do a thorough review of their portfolio. But where do you start? That’s exactly what the post is about. It’ll give you an idea what you need to do to see if they really are who they say there are and what to expect once you pay your cash.

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  • Leo Babauta – controversial tips on how to get blog traffic

    Leo Babauta

    What if I tell you that all that you do for your blog’s promotion is totally wrong? From the ground up! Mostly likely you’d say that I don’t even know what you’re doing for boosting your site’s popularity. But the problem is that most of us (bloggers and would-be ones) make the same mistake. I personally understood it after watching one short video. So, the other day I was wandering around the web and I stumbled upon a really amazing video that I found on WordPress.tv It’s about generating enough traffic to your site so that you can start earning a living and quit your day job. The guy in the video was Leo Babauta. He runs the Zenhabits.net blog. (more…)

  • The Nuisances of Guest Bloggers

    Guest Blogging

    Blogging has become a marketing staple to some businesses. It allows them to show their expertise, drive traffic to their site and provide their audience with useful information. Some companies churn out all the blog content on their own while others also allow guest blog posts.

    Using guest bloggers is a great way to add new content and new insight onto your blog, and it’s also a great way to generate traffic from a new audience (as long as the guest blogger also shares the link to their following). (more…)

  • Is Blogging Dead?

    Is Blogging Dead?

    There’s something of a rumour going round that blogging might be dead.  “The Conversation” has moved on to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and the like.  Combined with the search engines constant algorithmic athletics, many SEO experts could be forgiven for believing that the phrase SEO “strategy” could be better defined as “stab in the dark”.  However, blogging shouldn’t be taken out and shot just yet.  For a start, most pundits who think that it might be dead believe it’s a new idea, born of the internet revolution.  But blogging has been with us since that first, tentative daub of paint on the wall of a cave back in the Stone Age. (more…)

  • SEO Articles: 7 Rules For Writing them

    SEO Articles: 7 Rules For Writing them

    Writing great SEO articles, you need to start off with the basics. You need to make the article as much admirable to many as well to be appreciated. Therefore every article you write has to be great and good because at the end of the day it is what everybody is going to be concerned about. Good SEO articles most importantly are very useful since they can make one’s head spin hence the interest to read further. But now the question up is, how do you write these best SEO articles? Here is the procedure.

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  • Google Website Optimizer Is Being Discontinued: Google Analytics Adds Split Tester

    Google Analytics Logo

    Using Google’s free Analytics service has been a boon for many a webmaster, so it’s always big news when Google announces updates to the service.
    That’s especially true considering the latest update: Google Analytics will be dropping Google Website Optimizer – the service that previously allowed webmasters to run split tests on their site to compare the performance of certain web pages – and replacing it with a service called Content Experiments.
    The question on everyone’s mind is simple: does Content Experiments compare favorably to Website Optimizer or not?
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  • SEO WordPress tips inspired by a video

    WordPress SEO

    The other day I decided to check back with WordPress TV and see what cool stuff they’ve got there. And I did that quite in the nick of time because there was a really useful video (SEO WordPress one) on the homepage of WordPress TV. The video is called “Ira Pasternack, Milan Cole, & Sara Tetreault: SEO Discussion”. I really liked the video and ran the risk of re-publishing on my blog because it is so congenial to the mission that WebDesy.com is trying to complete, which is to education in terms of using WordPress and SEO. Just like the guys in the video say, if you decided to run your site on WordPress you’ve alredy made a very good decision for your site’s SEO. 🙂 (more…)