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iBCScorp is Seeking WordPress Talent
Jun 22nd
iBCScorp is looking for talented WordPress developers.
iBCScorp implements WordPress and WordPress-mu sites for some of its clients. We have an ongoing need for developers who are familiar with WordPress and can write and customize PHP plugins.
Applicants should be familiar with SEO practices, and have experience with WordPress site implementation and management issues.
Please forward your resume and list your accomplishments using wordpress, php or other technologies including your skills in:
- Creating WordPress Templates
- modifying or creating WordPress plug ins
- Doing SEO work on WordPress Sites
- Building WordPress Communities
- Solving WordPress related problems
- Developing WordPress Themes
- WordPress integrated e-commerce sites.
- etc..
This person would work in our Battaramulla, Sri Lanka or Utah, US offices
Website Speed – Why you need this
Apr 20th
Speeding up website is naturally important.
Why ?
Well the natural understood reason is that internet users expect immediate results. If a page takes too long to respond to a request, the user will likely go elsewhere.
Until know, this has been ignored by search engine ranking accept of course when it was so slow the crawler moved on. But now Google will help these users by including speed of a page when determining page results. This means additional signal “page speed” will now not only effect user experience but also affect the ability of the users to find your site on google in the first place.
Google considers over 200 signals when determine search rankings. That’s right over 200. That is why SEO work can be so complicated. There is new signal partner announced by google. “Site Speed”. Site Speed is basically site loading time. Maybe 90% of your page is fast but one item on that page takes a long time. Well that could hurt your search results.
If you are web master or blog owner you can test your site loading time in glance. There are loads of tools to check up on this signal.
1 . Page Speed – Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement
2 . YSlow, – A free tool from yahoo to suggest site speed
3 . WebPagetest – shows load performance and optimization checklist.
4 . Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance – if you are using google webmasters tools you have in built site speed checker in there.
In addition to having a faster sites that improves user experience and ranking, faster sites also reduce operational cost. According to google this new signal will not effect not more than 1% of search queries. But in future it will be a definite signal when ranking sites.
Now it’s time to look at and good idea to increase your web site speed, and certainly if your building a new site or doing ongoing development, it is something you need to consider. Smaller sites have an advantage when it comes to site speed. If you have big site with loads of images and videos, it is time to correct and optimize those pages to help with your Google SERP’s (Search Engine Results Page).
Performance is important to us. If it is important to you and you would like us to evaluate your pages please contact us. We can do a free evaluation and make recommendations to improve the performance of your site.
WordPress MU how to redirect non-www to www
Nov 17th
You installed WordPress MU on Apache and wrote few blog posts. Now when you go to your site by typing the www version of url (ex: www.yourblog.com) the url automatically get changed to non www version? But you want to get the www version instead?
Ok. This is what you have to do
1) Login to WordPress Mu admin
2) On left side menu “Site Admin” -> “Blogs” and click on your blog
3) Change site url from http://yourblog.com to http://www.yourblog.com
4) Scroll down and press “Update options”
Now all non-www requests will be redirect to www version.
(The procedure is similar in regular WordPress where you need to change the “Blog Address URL” in admin -> Settings -> General)
Of course to work this you need to have apache mod_rewrite installed and activated on your server.
Keeping only one url version is search engine friendly. Say you allow your site to be accessed by all these urls. www.yourblog.com, yourblog.com and yourblog.com/index.php. All these point to a same page. This can be lead to pagerank splits, Backlinks split and lastly you’re risking getting filtered for duplicate content by the new filters at Google.
For these reasons it is better you keep either www or non-www version activated but not both.
Determine the best way to automate Sitemaps
Nov 16th
In simple terms, a sitemap (or site map) is a list of all the pages in your website. Sitemaps provide two benefits: easier navigation (for visitors of your site) and better visibility by search engines.
With the rise of modern SEO techniques the importance of the sitemap has been growing. Sitemaps are the best way to inform search engines about changes on your website.
As a development company, we always apply current SEO techniques on our customer’s websites to ensure that they get top ranking on search engines. Not only on Google, but Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com etc. as well.
Including sitemaps is one of the important tasks we perform when developing sites for our clients. And this is done either manually or dynamically according to the customer needs.
Typically a good site with lots of content changes regularly. In this case it is expensive and tedious to continually update the site map. For this reason, we feel that in some cases it is important to be able to auto generate a sitemap.
We evaluated some sitemap auto generating tools and following are some of the solutions we like:
- Google XML Sitemaps [ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ ]
- It is a plugin for WordPress sites, which automatically updates the sitemap and notifies all major search engines every time you create a new post/content.
- Addme.com [ http://www.addme.com/ror-sitemap-generator.htm ].
- An online tool dedicated for sites developed using Ruby on Rails (ROR)
- Google Site Map Generator [ http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/sitemap/ ]
- Another simple online tool to generate site maps.
- PHPClasses.org [ http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2612.html ]
- A class library which can be integrated with PHP sites.
It is obvious that selecting a sitemap generating mechanism is depending on several facts such as the nature of the site, sever side technology used etc. So making the correct decision is up to your experience in SEO and web development team.
Contact us if you would like help generating a sitemap for your site, have general web marketing, seo, or web design questions…
Web Marketing!
Nov 9th
Ibcscorp.com cares about the success of its customers. We provide web marketing consulting and services to help maximize the benefity that our clients can get from the Internet. Some of our leading consultants have been using the Internet since as early as 1992, and have created and worked in many successful on line businesses.
Our goal is to work with our clients to help them determine an appropriate marketing budget for web marketing and then to maximize the effectiveness of that budget. We can’t do it all for you, but we can do it with you to help improve your success.