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WordPress is of course one of the most amazing open source projects out there for the blogging world, as I currently write this from my lovely little administration panel. (No I am not biased at all, I swear!) The problem with some of these open source ventures is that not everyone is content with the out-of-the-box features, which is ok. The lovely creators gave us the ability to install plug-ins which can further enhance our blogs and give us the ultimate functionality we are looking for. The problem though comes with those certain features some of us want that do not come all neatly packaged in a plug-in. So should we hack the core files, or dig deeper for the sake of reliability and safety? » Read the Rest

Search Engine Optimization, commonly known as SEO, is a series of tactics and methods used to make a website as search engine friendly as possible, while also ensuring prime placement for a targeted set of keywords pertaining to the site’s goals. Back in the day this was as simple as creating basic Meta tags on each page telling the viewing search engine crawler what sort of topics the web page covers, and an associated description to be used when displaying that website in search engine results. Because of the generic “honor code” type nature, web sites were able to “keyword spam”, or “keyword spoof”, and use keywords that did not actually apply to the content in order to appear in search results for a very broad spectrum of topics. » Read the Rest