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SEO for Journalists

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Had a giggle at this article in the Guardian.
Apparently journo’s are being encouraged to include high traffic search terms in their headlines. Some good examples in there too. The author might be taking the Michael a little bit but the truth is newspapers carry a bit of weight in terms of rankings and if they [...]

Is Amazon Sharing Your Email Address With The World?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

People use Amazon’s tools in different ways. I use wishlists as a place to put gift ideas, either that I would like, or that I would like to buy for my family at a later date.
Last week after I subscribed to Friendfeed I realised that people were sharing their wishlists through the Friendfeed service. Suspicions [...]

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.6 – Categories Disappeared

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I’ve just upgraded this blog to WP 2.6 and only had one headache with it. When I updated the database, all my category names disappeared. WP still kept the cat_id numbers on each post but the categories had no name so you couldn’t click through on them.
Investigation in MySQL Admin showed that the table wp_categories [...]

Use Wordpress 2.6 as a Content Management System (CMS)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I’m currently about to redevelop a site and want to use Wordpress 2.6 as a full blown CMS. Has anyone done this and what plugins would you recommend in terms of building navigation etc? I don’t really want the thing to look like a straightforward blog so was going to use the pages and sub-pages [...]