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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Last week I was having a discussion on Twitter about whether or not some links were bought. Quite a few people were confused about how you can use link buying to your advantage when you buy links to a website you don’t own (aka a third party). I thought I’d do a little ed-ju-macating and [...]
By: Michael Gray in Web Design, Web Development
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
I recently became the new owner of an iPad 3G and, despite my initial skepticism when the device was first announced, I actually really like it. Truth be told, I actually like it more than my Asus Netbook. That said, if it can’t help me actually get work done, then it really is a toy. [...]
By: Michael Gray in Apple, Mac
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...]
By: Michael Gray in Web Development
Monday, January 18th, 2010
While I do have some issues with Wordpress, it is one of my favorite CMS tools, because it’s easy to use, manage, and customize. In this post I’m going to give you a bit of insight into how I manage a Wordpress website.I’m going to assume you have already chosen the topic for your website. [...]
By: Michael Gray in CSS, Design, Wordpress
Friday, January 8th, 2010
At Pubcon this year Google announced page load time was going to become a ranking factor in 2010 (see video below). Shortly after this announcement, Google started showing load time data in webmaster central. Being a bit proactive, I decided to start looking at ways to speed up this site.
By: Michael Gray in Web Development
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.
By: Michael Gray in Programming, Web Development, XML
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
So you’ve been blogging for a while, your getting some links, traffic is growing, but your blog isn’t making any money. While you do like blogging maybe it’s getting kind of hard to justify the amount of time you put into it, if it’s not putting any money in your pocket.
By: Michael Gray in Advertising, RSS, Web Development
Friday, January 4th, 2008
I’m a big fan of the Google Webmaster Central Program and using sitemaps. I agree that you should build your website so that it is crawlable and not rely on sitemaps to compensate for poor site architecture, but hands down there is no better tool when you are migrating or cleaning up after a site [...]
By: Michael Gray in Programming, Web Development, XML