Photos From Our Day Trip to Hacklebarney Park, New Jersey
Since we’re so close to the holiday weekend we figured we’d kick it off a bit early, and yesterday we took the long slow drive out of Morristown, down old NJ Route 24 through Mendham, Chester and Long Valley out to Hacklebarney State Park. If you’re from New Jersey, or ar least North Jersey, and haven’t been there, it’s worth the trip.
New ITCN Website finally launched
Took a while, but I finally got around to launching the latest version of the ITCN NJ Web Design and Marketing website at http://www.itcn.com. We used a more web 2.0 kind of look for the site, and of course used a full Content Management System to power the whole thing. Check it out … let me know what you think about it.
A Criticism of NoFollow Links: Why You Should Not Use Them
OK, I admit it, I used to be the kind of guy who was tied up with using nofollow links to channel PageRank authority to my blog’s self-serving links. But I recently read a blog post over at Blue Jar, and subsequently found a great Wordpress plugin for Nofollow Reciprocity, which opened my eyes to “dofollow” blog links.
How to Create 404 Page Not Found Custom Error Pages in PHP
Google’s Official Blog has been talking about 404 server response codes (Page Not Found errors) this week, and since I just wrote about 301 Redirect Responses last week I guess I might as well pick up where they left off and describe how to handle a custom 404 message with a PHP page. As a web developer and an SEO it’s important to understand how web servers work, as it can impact both site performance for your users and for search engines.
SEO Case Study: Apache, .htaccess and 301 Redirects
If you’re thinking about changing domain names, or moving or renaming all the files on your website, then you probably have come across more than one person telling you to put 301 redirects in your .htaccess file. This will tell search engines, and your visitors’ browsers, that your website content has moved to a new location. I recently had to do this, and I thought I’d share what effect it had on the site and how it’s worked out for me.
Why You Should Use SEO Semantic Coding and Semantic Markup
A few weeks ago I outlined some guidelines for using semantic markup and semantic SEO coding for search engine optimization purposes. I explained a little about what semantic coding is, but perhaps I didn’t fully explain why one might want to use semantic coding for seo purposes. In this post I’d like to explain not only what semantic markup is, but why it would be useful and why you should be using it as a best practice in coding web designs.
