Spammers devised shady methods to draw traffic to their sites, ‘referrer spam’, also known as referral spam, log spam or referrer bombing. The traffic a website receives, the more opportunities there are to encourage more conversions and revenue, as well as to improve ranking.
A guide to block referrer spam Detailed instructions on how to effectively start blocking referrer spam from your website and to stop affecting analytics reports.… Read More »How to block referrer spam
This post is a first in a series of upcoming posts detailing the effects of spam on your websites performance and the steps and processes… Read More »What is Referrer Spam?
In this post I will provide an explanation of what is information architecture to provide an understanding of one of the most fundamental steps and processes for a successful search engine optimization campaign.
A top 10 list of any sort is purely subjective, for instance the top 10 music charts are based on sales following a set of criteria, they don't necessarily relate to all the music people are actually buying, and there are top 10 charts for every genre. In fact there are literally 100's of top 10 music charts. In much the same vein there are 1000's of top 10 WordPress plug-in charts.
In all honesty, maybe the title of this post should be Top 10 WordPress plug-ins for a freelance software developer blog, but I feel that loses some panache and besides Google doesn't like long titles. So I've gone with the punchy title.
Read More »Top 10 WordPress plug-ins for blogging
I recently decided to change my default search engine. Call it a mid life crisis, or maybe just a sign of boredom, but I felt… Read More »Made the switch to Duck Duck Go
A classic programmer introduction to a new concept. However I’m not entirely new to blogging, I have been running my own company blog over at… Read More »Hello world!