Automatic inclusion of Google Adsense ads in WordPress content.

If you’re using the self-hosted WordPress platform and are trying to monetize your blog with Google Adsense, you might have come across heaps of ways of including your Google Adsense ads in your code. This tutorial will help you include your ads automatically and efficiently with great code manipulation. The whole of it has been tested.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for “coming soon” pages.

Search engine optimising a website is not an easy task and even more difficult when it has not been launched. This is old story now. Use a “coming soon” page and go further by optimising it. Find out what you’ll get out of this here.

Dropping unnecessary tags in your HTML code.

Improving a page’s HTML code can be easy task. It gets better when it is done with some smart edges. Here is a little process I use: dropping off the maximum number of unnecessary tags as can be done while cleaning and optimising the code.

You should be (over-) using the H (heading) tags.

Headings are regularly overlooked by web designers although they are really useful elements in web design in terms of standards, seo and usability. The full cover of these is in this article.

Speeding your page load time will improve your Google ranking.

Google made it official, a page’s load time affects its ranking in results pages. Learn how to speed up your pages through code optimisation.

Failure of the web design community in Mauritius?

It is a sad thought, there is no real Mauritian web design community. There are web designers, there are companies but none are actually working for the creation of an active community. Most are taken is showing that they are better than the others, necessary for business, true but what about the community?

Beware of blogging burnout.

Blogging burnout is really different from the writer’s block. It can bring a blog to its knees or even kill it. Avoiding blogging burnout is the job of the blogger. Here are some mistakes I made in my early blogging years.

Nobody needs web designers.

You don’t need to hire a web designer nor do you need expert consultants in “web” fields. Not to speak of SEO and project management. All this is so easy and resources are so readily available that it is a real waste of time and money.

Blogging might help the Mauritian “collez*” students improve their writing skills.

Picture this, thousands of Mauritian teenager blogs which come as a help in the Mauritian education system by giving the college students incentive to write and consume information from the world around them.

Optimising your site to get Google sitelinks.

Find out how to optimise your website to get Google sitelinks. An internal report published by Google gives different optimisation information on which there are guidelines on how to get sitelinks.

What’s in a name? Domain name and hosting strategies.

A domain name is not only for identifying a site, it can be optimised for a real SEO strategy. Let’s dig into the origins of some known Mauritian brands and how a real SEO strategy can be derived from the optimisation of domain names and hosting.

Would Twitter be better for SEO without URL shorteners?

Twitter is currently using URL shorteners for link sharing. Would there be a change in the use of the tool by professionals if the latter used other ways of linking? How would Twitter be optimised for SEO?

What will change in 2010 with search engines ranking? (Google speaking only? Not sure …)

Guest post by Alice Bourseau: changes in search engine rankings and recommendations on how to rank better with all the personalisation tools that users have nowadays.

De Chazal du Mée’s (DCDM) website can harm your computer.

You might be careful when accessing the DCDM website from now on as Google is now putting it in the malware dropping category of websites. Another bullet in the foot of one of the country’s most important companies, bullet fired by oneself.

Facebook login issue: how Facebook shows that the web will never be conquered.

An article on Read Write Web concerning FaceBook ended in an involuntary anthropological study of human-Internet interaction on mass used web applications. Find the whole story out and what we can conclude on the way the web is designed and used.

Google “star” feature to replace Search Wiki.

The Google SearchWiki never really caught up, so the company is now replacing it with the “Star” feature. Here is an overview of this feature and why it replaces the SearchWiki.