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The Genesis Framework provides additional administrative control and settings for your WordPress site. The following outlines the major differences you will find when posting or updating pages using a Genesis theme compared to a standard WordPress installation: [Read more...]
The last confirmed Google PageRank update was on April 03, 2010. That is 9 months at the time of this article, 2/3s of a year. Scouring through Google’s Toolbar support site, news articles, forums, and more, there is not one (well published at least) mention of an official stance on the tool, and any response to hundreds of blogs, articles, and forums discussing this very issue. Whether this is planned or unscheduled, or whether the Google PageRank tool will ever be updated. Previously, the PageRank function seemed to update on a ‘close-to’ quarterly schedule. With the ever-changing dynamics of web traffic and link popularity, I’d say nine months with no update equals a discarded web-ranking program. Google PR is shutdown and I have ‘officially’ removed the enhanced feature from my Google Toolbar. [Read more...]
What is all this hype about PR and how do I make this number go higher? Pagerank is nothing more than Google’s own method of ranking a site’s importance based on number and quality of backlinks (incoming links). Anyone can rank a site. If you like a site, feel free to give it your own personal ranking: Thumbs up or thumbs down, 1-5 stars, whatever. It just so happens that 2 major company’s ranking systems are widely held as the primary methods for judging a sites value: Google’s PR and Alexa’s Traffic Rank. [Read more...]
We all hear about the importance of backlinks, page rank, exposing your site via social media, but the most important aspect to the development of your website is and always will be content. Three simple points: Quality, Unique, Relevant. Quality, Unique, Relevant. Can’t say it enough. This is the meat and potatoes of your site. Search engine traffic is the most important traffic you will ever get and search engine crawlers look more and more to the content on pages than ever before. If someone finds your site through a search engine, this means someone has a need, is searching for that information, product or service, and they found you. Now you need to deliver with quality, unique, and relevant content. [Read more...]
