WordPress has been under attack by malicious Botnet recently! WattsWebStudio immediately ensured that all of our websites have undertaken the proper precautions to secure our hosted and designed websites.
The basic fix is the following steps.
First, if you have an active username that is the defaulted “admin”, delete it and create a new more original username in its place. The attack bots when attacking are assuming you might have the username “admin”… This is the most important thing to do and will probably be the only absolutely necessary step, though the next steps are also reasonably advisable.
The second step is to make sure the password is also unique and not easy to guess.
Thirdly, install security plugin such as “Wordfence Security” and scan your website to ensure you don’t have any malware existing.
Fourth, remove any extra themes that you are not using or plan to use in the near future.
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
This is a great tool to cue in the robots to all of you websites links. This helps with your search engine standings.
Media Converter
http://www.mediaconverter.org
Do you have media files that don’t play on your platform? This is a great tool that will convert your video files into the format that you need.
Woo Rank
http://www.woorank.com
This ranks your website listing what bits of your website are connected to the various and sundry social media networking sites.
SEO Workers
http://www.seoworkers.com/
This does a great job of searching your site and giving feedback to what can be changed!
Do you have media files that don’t play on your platform? This is a great tool that will convert your video files into the format that you need.
This Chrome extension allows you to pick color from any webpage or from a customized advanced color picker. It is an essential tool for web developers!
Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share. Support PNG and shortcuts.
This is a Chrome extension that generates random “Lorem Ipsum” text, a standard latin dummy text often needed in the development of new websites used as filler when the final text is not known or available yet.
The Google Chrome S.E.O. extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization tools that can help you with competitive analysis, keyword research, back link checks, pagerank checks and other daily S.E.O. tasks.
1. Content. Creating truly informative and quality content will keep your readers returning to your blog much more often because the people don’t want to be misled and tricked into visiting your blog. Create economized titles that incorporate at least a couple of the keywords related to your post to draw the right trafic in the first place.
2. Frequent updates. Posting frequently with quality information is another key technique. The search engine spiders will crawl your site much more often. Frequency will help keeping the visitors who came once and are returning to find new and helpful content.
3. Incorporate your blog content into Facebook and other social networking platforms. Watch this you tube video! Facebook can be a bridge to your blog.
4. Index your blog. Indexing a blog refers to the blog becoming recognized by a search engines. This is something you can do proactively by submitting your URL within each search engine manually. Today, most bloggers would want to initially index their blog with Google, Bing, and Yahoo. By indexing a blog, your blog is more likely to show up in searches, therefore more likely to be visited.
5. Submit your blog to blog directories. Links are an important element to consider which can affect your ranking.
6. Comment on other blogs. Look at other blogs in your same niche. Comment on their posts giving them feedback and encouragement. They may find your blog helpful as well and comment on your content! All this traffic and linking will help get you recognized
7. Leave your URL within appropriate forums. Being present at community resource forums is a great place to recruit some traffic to your own blog. Hopefully they will find what they are looking for at your blog. This is why you should find niche appropriate forums related to your own content.
Search Engine Optimization for promoting one’s website used to be much easier not too long ago. Much has changed! When search engines first got started they used to rely simply by trusting what the website owner said about their site. If you were looking to add specialized optimization, you would need only to add some meta-tags. This would get you to the top rankings. If your competitor listed a keyword 7 times and you listed it 8 times; you would out rank your competitor. You can see how things were systemically favoring 2 parts dishonesty and 4 parts chaos. The game has changed since then.
Much more complex formulas are running the leading search engines of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. While meta-tags are still essential and helpful in helping your website get recognized by the most used search engines within particular searches; there is now a whole list of elements that comprise the essentials for optimization techniques! No longer is it as simple as repeating the same word a thousand times, and giving attention to the met- tags simply. Now search engines are looking for a whole spectrum of essential elements to better ensure accuracy and fairness, including:
Meta tags
Domain names
Header tags
Bold text
Keyword weighting
Keyword prominence
Alt tags
File names
Link text
In addition to these is Google’s PageRank formula. This is how Google assesses all the links that are directed to your website from outside websites. If a well ranking external website has a link to your site in good standing, this helps you out. It is a kind of who you know system. Getting a good page rank takes time and a bit of work in getting this done.
After 14 million downloads of WordPress 3.2, WordPress 3.3 is being released to the wild today. Codenamed “Sonny” in honor of the jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, WordPress 3.3 is available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.
WordPress, which had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, has a number of excellent new features.
The media uploader has also been much improved with a drag-and-drop image uploader. A new menu feature allows users to hover over menus for navigation. There is improved co-editing notifications and support. And WordPress 3.3 now comes with a Tumblr importer and is optimized for the iPad.
For Users
Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally they’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.
For Developers
There is heaps for developers also. I would recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.
I just completed this website for OrganicScapes landscaping company of Bend, Oregon at this domain name: bendorganiclandscaping.com. Take a look!
One of the most important elements in achieving top search engine ranking is choosing the best domain name for your business. When picking a domain name for a client is very helpful to incorporate relevant keywords within the very domain name itself.
If one were searching the powerful Google search engine looking for a landscaping company within a particular city, the search may look like this: “Bend Oregon Landscaping”. Google gives the highest priority of keyword ranking to the domain name itself. If an individuals search words/phrase are present in your web domain name, all the better! Therefore, the best available domain name for my client OrganicScapes incorporated both the location of city (bend), and the industry subject (landscaping) within their domain name. We choose to include (organic) in the middle to have continuity with the business name. While there is are many more tricks and tools that go into building a website with organic S.E.O. (search engine optimization), this should be given the most consideration.
I just completed a new website for Bend’s Community Center. It began as a pre-built WordPress Template and I customized the design and function to suit the organization. It includes Search Engine Optimization and a Content Management System.
is an excellent resource for incorporating organic search engine optimization.
