CMS
Drupal : When Cron jobs do not complete and Cron jobs tips
Cron jobs are an essential part of most Drupal installations. Cron jobs take care of Drupal maintenance, synchronization, pinging, spam and other important aspects. Every module implements it own cron hook and cron goes and executes the function. It sometimes happens Continue Reading →
Promoting the Israeli independent blogosphere – the WordPress SEO review project
Got a blog? Need a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) review for your WordPress blog? This post is a studycase showing an overall SEO analysis for selected WordPress blogs. Dakar, a blogger who's leading the WordPress based community in Israel, started to offer Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Using excerpt, robots.txt and noindex meta-tag for duplicate content in index, archives and categories
WordPress blogs have duplicate content issues, and one of them is allowing reading the same content on both the posts, index page, archives and categories webpages. To avoid search engine penalty it is important to optimize your WordPress installation so that Continue Reading →
PHP session cookies : A global Drupal login problem fix
Drupal has made it to 5.1 without dealing with one serious PHP problem of handling session cookies, causing various Drupal login problems in different configurations. I've been following Drupal forums for a long time and I've never seen a more wide-spread annoying Continue Reading →
Top methods for keeping your WordPress installation and WordPress plugins up-to-date
Keeping your WordPress installation and plugins updated is an important yet annoying task. Following and the news on WordPress releases, monitoring the versions for the dozens of plugins installed, and then going through the upgrade can be very time Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Adding and managing Meta-tags (keywords & description)
Meta-tags aren't as important as they use to be, but they're still an SEO factor that might help boost things up a bit. Some smaller search-engines rely on meta-tags and some of the big search-engines still use the description meta-tag in SERP when displaying your Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Optimize the WordPress Page Titles
Page-titles is one of the most important Search Engine Optimization (SEO) factors. WordPress out-of-the-box page-titles behavior is not optimal and WordPress page-titles SEO can be improved dramatically. Page-titles are easy to optimize by quickly tweaking Continue Reading →
Drupal : Change DB and table collation to Unicode (UTF-8)
Drupal supports Unicode (UTF-8) out of the box and so Unicode should be used for all your Drupal installations. Problem is, some things you do with your Drupal installation might result in a database or a table that have non-unicode collation. Here are Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Optimize your WordPress theme headings (h1, h2, h3)
Headings (H1, H2, H3) are an important SEO factor that is often not optimized in WordPress themes. There is a common agreement that a right headings design make a big difference for search engines as the search engines rely on headings to understand what content Continue Reading →
The external links dilemma : How to mark, preview, open-new and AJAX your outgoing links
External links are always a dilemma as a user that follows an external link using a simple click will leave your site. Can the visitors know what is an internal link and an external link? Do your visitors know that they're leaving the site and when they do Continue Reading →
