Any regular user of WordPress knows that you can customise your URLs under Settings - Permalinks in the control panel. Here you can indicate to use the post/page title for the pages URL (aka slug) which is more SEO and user friendly. There are still some limitations, particularly when you have sub pages and WordPress insists on including the parent page slug in your URL. If … [Read more...] about Custom Permalink WordPress Plugin
WPtouch Makes WordPress Sites Mobile Friendly
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/ Internet experts and analysts have been prophetizing for years that the next big thing will be the mobile web. 2011 is the year that this has finally become a reality. The iPhone brought about mobiles with the facilities of a desktop computer and more. Cheaper android phones brought this to the masses. A larger and larger … [Read more...] about WPtouch Makes WordPress Sites Mobile Friendly
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/ Back in June we held a social media conference here in West Cork and one of the speakers was a man I had met a year before at another conference. He looked like a different person - had lost a bit of weight and, although he had good energy before, it seemed even stronger in him at this meeting. He had been tweeting about his weight loss, so I … [Read more...] about The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Google Webmaster Tools
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ Google Webmaster Tools is probably one of the most overlooked, but most valuable, tools available to analyse the performance of your website. Most web developers will know about it and have it set up, but only the most dedicated or obsessive (he he) will actually check the information on a regular basis. Most site owners, that don't … [Read more...] about Google Webmaster Tools
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal When people talk about SEO and optimizing your site and social media, this should be your starting place. The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is probably the tool that I use most often for: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), to ensure that I am targeting popular, relevant phrases on specific pages of a website; and Market … [Read more...] about Google AdWords Keyword Tool
