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WordPress and the plugins that come with it have grown exponentially over the years. WordPress plugins have become smarter with an artificial intelligence that makes it possible to learn from experience and make decisions based on what it learns. This learning ability results in an enhanced usability, as AI algorithms observe individual user behavior. Over [...]
What is Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)? Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is one way that search engines analyze your content and ascertains that it is on topic and not spam. Search engine algorithms determine this by taking all words in your article and determining how relevant they are to each other. Ergo, if your article is [...]
I was cleaning out my spam folder today when I came across an email that jump-started my heart and got me a little panicked. It was an email that looked like it was from Facebook telling me that my password had been reset. I frequently check all my privacy settings and try to take all [...]
Shareaholic is a very popular plugin used with WordPress. The plugin supplies share buttons to many social media networks, which allows readers to share articles they read on their favorite websites. When I installed the plugin, I noticed that the buttons were below my featured image and not under the title as it should be. [...]
Google recently released a new app called “Inbox” and it’s an invite only app at this time, which provides a new front end to your Gmail. It still holds all the same folders/tabs that Gmail has, but they have created it more as a standalone app to access your Gmail. I finally received my invitation [...]
What’s a Landing Page? A landing page is the section of a website accessed by clicking a hyperlink on another web page, typically but not limited to, the website’s home page. What are conversions? According to Google Analytics, “A conversion is the completion of an activity on your site that is important to the success [...]
I was installing a plugin for one of my new clients today. TinyMCE Advanced is a plugin that I install for all my clients. I love this plugin! I’ve tried others, but this one is simple enough to use without instruction, yet complex enough to make you feel like you have some neat toys in [...]
I learned a tough lesson today. I have spent a lot of time working on the optimization of my website. I’ve set <meta> titles and descriptions to many of my pages and posts. I use the WordPress SEO plugin, by Joost de Valk. I’ve worked diligently with Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster. I’ve added analytics [...]
Lately, there has been an upsurge of phishing attacks on my servers! Though I don’t blog a lot, anyone who knows me or knows my posts, knows how much I hate dealing with phishing attacks. They leave an awful mess for me to clean up. So, I find that I repeat myself often, and I [...]
I recently came across a web page that really surprised the heck out of me. I get it; I really do… but is it worth risking traffic to your website?I was reading an article on LiberalLogic.com, today. As the page loaded, a yellow banner opened at the top of the page. It says,“Firefox users we [...]
