Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
If you know who I am, then you’ve likely noticed that I’m a huge a fan of interviewing others for blog posts. It’s a fantastic way to leverage current business relationships, start new relationships and drive new traffic to the blog, but the best part is that I get to ...
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Our guest writer this week is Marty Martin WordPress is an extremely powerful CMS out of the box (I know you already know that). And coupled with some really awesome plugins, you can really rock your niche. What you may not be aware of is how you can further customize ...
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
WordPress does an excellent job at providing incredible content management features, while also keeping its CMS as secure as possible. However, there are still some things you can do to make it even more secure, even from Google (I’ll explain that in a minute.) After you install WordPress, there’s still ...
Monday, March 16th, 2009
It’s always nice to debut new software that’s related to Raven’s Internet Marketing Tools. However, it’s even better when someone else has written it! WordPress, a content management and blogging platform that we absolutely love, has an excellent plugin architecture that makes it easy for developers to extend its functionality. ...
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Updated with security fixes We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and blogs we build use WordPress. Depending on the client and the strategy, we can sometimes build twenty or more WordPress-driven ...
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A few weeks ago, we noticed that someone had managed to insert a bunch of spam links into our WordPress header and footer. We quickly updated to the latest version (2.3.3 at the time), thinking it would fix the security hole. However, this happened again, and seems to be happening ...
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Every SEO Specialist has their own formula for keyword density. Personally, I prefer to simply have articles written naturally and I try to make sure I’m appropriately mentioning and writing about my targeted keywords. However, many SEO copywriters rely on external applications or online tools to report keyword density — ...
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Hot off the heals of the MyBlogLog API debut, MyBlogLog just released a shiny new widget for displaying recent visitors. In addition to its shininess, you can hover your cursor over a MyBlogLog member to learn more about them. Hovering over Web 2.0 Guru — a recent visitor to the ...
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Skip all the talk and get the plugin! Here at Sitening, we have had the privilege of being granted access to the new MyBlogLog API while in its beta stage. As a developer primarily working with PHP, I first created a PHP wrapper class to implement all of the API ...
Monday, January 28th, 2008
I’ve always found Google’s Blog Search to be less then stellar. It’s excellent at indexing, sorting and presenting current blog entries. What it’s not excellent at is returning quality results. However, today it hit an all time low. I was doing some research for a client — searching for “chicago ...