To help web developers maintain a common style, on April 25th Google published its own HTML and CSS Style Guide containing best practices to encourage better coding etiquette. Google’s HTML/CSS Style Guide promotes good style advice that is also good performance advice, making it a good standard to use. Continue reading
Felicity Crouch reports: Using our own award-winning Twitter petition site; Twitition.com we conducted a study into the effect of tweets on rankings in Google (no other search engines were used for this study). In the biggest study of its kind, we have found that there is strong correlation between the amount of tweets about a URL, and its Google ranking. This is the biggest study of tweets conducted anywhere in the world, and we think it’s produced some really interesting results. via Revolutionary study: We prove that tweets do affect rankings | B3Labs | Branded3.
A tip of the hat to Tim Grice re: The Tweets vs. Rankings Test by Branded3
The Penguin Update launched on April 24. It was a change to Google’s search results that was designed to punish pages that have been spamming Google. If you’re not familiar with spam, it’s when people do things that violate Google’s guidelines. To learn more, see these pages: Continue reading
WordPress.com hosts many types of blogs and you can determine if the kind of blog you want to establish is allowed or not allowed very easily. These are the characteristics of successful bloggers: Purpose, Passion, Productivity, People Skills and Persistence. You don’t need a domain to become a successful blogger but it helps. Blogs on their own domains communicate the message that the blogger is serious about blogging, serious enough to purchase a domain. Continue reading
We are all suffering from information overload and the notion that everyone must have a blog has led to the creation of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of new blogs every year. However, a significant number of those new blogs will be abandoned blogs or deleted blogs in less than a year from the date of their creation, as blogger burnout is a common ailment. Continue reading
