One of the most commonly known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips that go around has to do with the way you name and tag the images that you use on your site. Its fairly commonly accepted by most SEO experts that Google not only looks at the text on your blog in order to measure its worth but that Google’s spidering bots also take a look at the code you use in your image files.
Over the years SEO techniques have been developed to abuse this fact and webmasters have ’stuffed’ their ‘alt tags’ with all kinds of keywords – however Google has found ways to combat this and treats such strategies as spamming their bots now – however it is still legitimate to put keywords in you image tags and I would recommend that you do (within reason).
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by Darren Rowse
Filed under SEO by on Oct 4th, 2009. Comment. 
Bloggers, and budding social media marketing gurus on Twitter and Facebook will soon have to fess up if their endorsements and product touts are bought and paid for before they’re written.
Rules covering testimonials in advertising and product endorsements that have been in place since 1980 will soon be modified to include bloggers and social media.Read more on FTC cracking down on bloggers and social media…
Filed under Social Media by on Oct 6th, 2009. Comment.
There have been a number of articles published over the years that discuss best practices techniques for JavaScript. I thought I would go a little bit beyond the scope of those articles and outline a number of advanced techniques and practices that I have personally used or read about that could be invaluable in certain circumstances.
Filed under Javascript by on Oct 9th, 2009. Comment.
Last Thursday, the WordPress core development team got together to discuss the upcoming version of WordPress. In this meeting, it was announced that WordPress 2.9 is now feature frozen meaning additional features would be postponed to the next branch. The first proposed release date of WordPress 2.9 was October 31st but that goal is not attainable. Instead, expect to see Beta 1 around October 31st with release candidates released during the month of November. Depending on what happens during the testing phase, we may see WordPress 2.9 stable released during the second half of November or early December.
Expect to see details regarding how to participate in the testing process show up on the WordPress development blog within the next week or so.
Filed under Wordpress by on Oct 14th, 2009. Comment.
