Google: No More Panda Updates in 2011
The Panda will continue to strike in 2012 after a brief holiday break in December 2011. This was announced by Google on Twitter.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/1221.html

12.21.11

WordPress SEO for Beginners
What are SEO essentials when it comes to publishing a new WordPress Page or Post? There are some basic things you can do to make sure your new page or post is set up for the Google crawler to understand what the page is about, and boost your chances for ranking highly for your search term.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/1202.html

12.02.11

Five Easy Ways To Improve Your Homepage
It's easy to overlook important information that your website visitors may need when they first arrive to your homepage.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/1028.html

10.28.11

Now Manage Custom Search Engines From Webmaster Tools
In an attempt to make things easier and quickly accessible for webmasters, Google has now allowed for Custom Search Engines to be accessed from the Webmaster Tools account only.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/1013.html

10.13.11

Google Webmasters Tools Gets A New Interface
Google has redesigned the Google Webmasters Tools interface. The new interface will make things really easier for the webmasters managing multiple sites, highlighting the health problems of your sites.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0930.html

09.30.11

Real-Time App Performance Analytics: No-Risk Trial
We take monitoring and management serious and maintain 99.99% availability to ensure your data is available at all times.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0928.html

09.28.11

Google Survivor Tips
The first day of the SMX New York saw an interesting and informative session on surviving tips post the Panda update. The participants of the session were:

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0916.html

09.16.11

SEO Tips – White Hat SEO Techniques
The search engines are waging a never ending battle against black hat SEO techniques. They tweak their algorithms, and bring in huge changes like the Panda, to clean up black hat results from search.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0902.html

09.02.11

WordPress SEO: Embrace the CMS
The 3rd session of Search Engine Strategies San Francisco 2011, Day 2 focused mainly on how WordPress can be used to manage and resolve SEO by anyone with ease.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0818.html

08.18.11

Submit Individual URL's To Google For Indexing via Fetch As Googlebot
Google has announced a new way, Fetch As Googlebot, to submit your new and updated URL's for indexing. So, how does it work?

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0805.html

08.05.11

When Do You Say A Development Task Is Really Done?
I love when other people write a blog post at the same time you are struggling with the problem that they describe. Today's timely post comes from Michael Bolton on his DevelopSense blog. In "The Undefinition of Done", Michael talks about the fact that people typically have different definitions:

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0715.html

07.15.11

Making Your Mobile Website SEO Friendly
Need to learn more about smartphone and mobile SEO best practices? Let's start with a few statistics:

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0701.html

07.01.11

CakePHP vs. CodeIgniter
Using Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks are the way to go for developing websites today. Nearly all websites need basic functionalities...

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0610.html

06.10.11

WPTouch Pro Mobile Theme Review
The following is a review of the WPTouch Pro Mobile Theme. This is a premium theme that I paid for.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0506.html

05.06.11

Google Panda Expansion
Several weeks ago I attended a session at SES New York titled "Panda: The Aftermath," which discussed the Google Panda/Farmer update in February. Many people gathered to mourn their website's lost rankings and to gather hope that they could recover.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0422.html

04.22.11

Nokia Introduces Tools For Mobile Web Developers
Nokia has introduced Nokia Web Tools for Series 40 devices allowing developers to creae rich, light weight web apps.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0408.html

04.08.11

Conversion Tools of the Master Craftsman
Now it's time to say goodbye – My last session of the day entitled Conversion Tools of the Master Craftsman, highlights effective conversion tools and solutions that you can use for your website t0 fix conversion issues.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0325.html

03.25.11

How To Easily Hide Client-side Content from Google Web/Mobile Preview Bot
I'm really liking the new Preview option on Google Mobile Search, and I reckon it will be used far more than preview in regular web search. But there's a small problem. Well actually a couple of problems, but here's the solution to one:

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0311.html

03.11.11

Understanding The PDF File Format - Indexed Colorspaces
Indexed colorspaces are a very useful way of reducing the amount of memory and space needed when you only need a certain number of colours. It is best explained by an example.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0225.html

02.25.11

Posting An Embedded Video In WordPress
A client just asked me how to post a video into his WordPress blog. It's a simple affair, once you know how to do it. And yes, you will have to look at the code, but just for a second.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0211.html

02.11.11

Building HTTP Client Request Concept With Generic Programming
I wanted to write about this yesterday but I was dealing with the end-of-week correspondence and some phone calls I had to take.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0124.html

01.24.11

Appcelerator Teams With Verizon On Mobile App Development
Appcelerator has announced that Verizon Wireless will team with Appcelerator's Titanium Platform, allowing web developers to use JavaScript to develop mobile apps for Verizon Wireless customers.

http://archive.webdevelopernews.com/2011/0107.html

01.07.11