Jamie Harrop wrote a post on Daily Web Ideas on 7 ways to increase your pagerank. Great post I must say and I recommend reading it. He discussed how to get a better pagerank from an excellent marketing and advertising point of view.
On another note I’d like to toss in some of my own SEO ideas for better results – from a web developer’s perspective. Considering Jamie has already covered the other end, this is all I have left.
I cannot stress enough the issue of Keywords. No matter how good …

Google pageranks are forecasted to be updated in April sometime – or at least that is the rumour.
If you don’t know what a pagerank is.. well. The word itself is self-explanatory. It’s a system that Google has that ranks the importance and relevancy of your site, and you get better search engine results. Also, the links that you give out to other sites have more relevancy too (unless attributed by the rel=”nofollow” thingy).
Even if you are already being indexed by Google, that does not mean that you have a pagerank, …

When Google gives me a pagerank (which is expected to be updated in April, so I will finally be given a pagerank), they determine the quality of my outbound links as a factor.
So far, because my blog was so new and I’m such a nice guy, I just exchanged blog links with everybody who asked, basically. I had an interesting chat with John Chow today over lunch, and he pointed out a few things to me. When Google gives me a pagerank (which is expected to be updated in April, …

Well, the stats are in for February, and I’ve done some things to this blog to enhance the looks and the functionality of it, as well as keep up diligently with new and informative posts.

Let’s do a quick recap of the growth in traffic :

Actually this should be an extension of my last post about my website progress report on Calcon Construction.
I was faced with a bit of a challenge on how the section titles of each page would be displayed, and here is my solution to it. The mock-up site can be found at this page.

As you can see, the logo of the company constitutes of a red cell and then a blue cell over it. Each section title must emulate the shape of this. The simple way (well, simple at first) to …

Well, WordPress 2.1.1 was released less than 24 hours ago and I just did the upgrade. It’s not a crucial upgrade, but whatever. May as well keep it up to date.
The upgrade is available at the WordPress Download Page. Also, a description of the new upgrade can be found here.
In my case, I simply re-uploaded the entire wp-includes folder and wp-admin folder. I never touched anything within those folders or modified them so it’s good to go. I did do a database backup, however, just in case, and I did …

A new segment that is being added to my blog is the Web Development Progress Report, which is a blog about my progresses with certain website contracts I am given. I will show you the test site, describe how and why things are done in certain ways. Hopefully this gives newer desginers/coders, as well as more seasoned veterans some ideas. Input is welcomed, but due to the fact that my projects have a time-budget (how many hours can I put into this project for the money I’m getting) as well …