Archive for November, 2009

Bug Hunt For WordPress 2.9

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Jane Wells from Wordpress has just announced a bug hunt for WordPress 2.9. She just announced 2 three day periods, the first will be 5, 6 and 7 of November, the second will be 14,15 and 16 of November 2009.

This is not for the ordinary WordPress users. It’s for developers and programmers. And it’s all about testing new patches, fixing bugs and reporting new bugs.

WordPress has a owner. And he’s rich. Why is there so much support from programmers to the development of this product? WordPress is an open source script and it’s free. Any programamer can read the code and understand how WordPress works. But a user can do more than understand how WordPress works. He can change the code and adapt the script to his own needs and requirements. Because it’s such a powerful and flexible tool, with millions of users, the interest in the development of this script is a community interest. And that is what drives this community approach to the development of this script.

Search Engine Optimization Expectations

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Today is SEO day. I hit a hot zone regarding SEO. So, here comes another article about SEO.

Every website needs visitors. How do you get visitors to come to your website? With communication. That’s the tool you use to relate with others. In business, it’s also called marketing. And Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about how you communicate your message to search engines, with the intent of reaching your audience, when they search for keywords related to that message.

One of the problems of SEO companies is the management of new client’s expectations. Most new clients think search engine optimization is a 1 day, click a button action, with instant results. And it’s not. I think the internet has a label attached to it of easy money, get rich fast, no hard work, get a 1 dollar hosting account, free stuff. And business men, that deal every single day with real life competition, when they order SEO services they just forget that the internet is not a dream world.

I know a few books about SEO that use the idea of 1 hour a day. How do I translate that idea to this article? Communicate with your audience 1 hour a day, through SEO. When do you stop doing SEO? When you have nothing to say to your audience…

Google Uses RSS / Atom Feeds To Index Webpages

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Google announced yesterday that it’s using RSS / ATOM Feeds to index new webpages. Clever move! Instead of waiting to crawl an already indexed webpage with a link to new content, google is using the same rss / atom feeds we all use to notify our readers of new content to index that new content. What does this mean?

  1. Google will index new content faster.
  2. It will be easier for webmasters to index new webpages in Google.

Twitter is all about live search. And Google is fighting to keep it’s search monopoly.