Articles on Blog Optimization

Blog design – if you are in this list, then you are out of your readers favourites!

Daily Blog Tips has a list of 43 web design mistakes that is a must read for anybody who wants your website to be visited and enjoyed by other readers. 1. The user must know what the site is about in seconds 2. Make the content scannable 3. Do not use fancy fonts that are unreadable 4. Do not [...]

My Next Blog Optimization Project – KC See’s

A few days ago, my business and CPT mentor Mr KC See, CEO of Quest Group and MasteryAsia, announced to the community that he has started a blog! It was a great choice to start with WordPress, and host it on their own domain. Here is what it looks like currently, using the [...]

WordPress Include Tags

The WordPress documentation on Include Tags listed four different functions which template developers can use to in their templates: <?php get_header(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php comments_template(); ?> Most templates in the WordPress themes directory use these set of functions, simply because they are used with the default Kubrick template, and according to the documentation, these functions provide the additional functionality [...]

Optimal HTML Headings for Proper Information Hierarchy in WordPress Blogs

I was back tweaking my blog templates these days, and I learned that many of the WordPress Plug-Ins for the sidebar use the HTML header H2, for sidebar headers. For example, in order to generate the list of links from your blogroll automatically (with the headers), one would normally use <?php get_links_list(); ?>. This, however [...]

WalMart Video Download Store Blunder

Over at TechCrunch today, Michael Arrington shared his findings on the messed up WalMart Video Download Store on Firefox. Although from the comments it seems that the problem can be fixed with a hard refresh on Firefox, for my case, every single page needs to be hard refreshed! Its not going to work [...]

The SEO practitioner’s key to optimizing Blogger templates

Yesterday, I spent some time out and I met up with my friend, coach and mentor – Patrick, so we could discuss on the things that I have done up for his blog. I’m currently working with him to help him optimize his blog about Designing Your Life and Making Good Decisions. Here was his [...]

My first blog optimization project

This morning I went out to meet my Certified Professional Trainers (CPT) coach, Patrick, to seek his advice on how to go about getting started with my blog marketing training in Singapore, and also to help him to optimize his blog. Patrick is a trainer and coach by profession (hence he is my coach! ), [...]