A couple weeks ago I got quite worried about the Google Images traffic on one of my sites…

That’s a pretty dramatic drop. I started going through all the scenarios of what might be happening. Then a couple days later I noticed this…

In other words, at the same time there was a drop in traffic from [...]

Slicksurface recently launched a new website for Partners With Parents Tutoring Service, located in New York City. This site was a particularly interesting project for a number of reasons.
Jesse Gerber, co-founder of Partners With Parents is a neighbor and good friend. He was initially resistant to a redesign partly due to the cost of the [...]

Having an outbound link script is a good idea for many reason. You can quickly and easily change particular types of links throughout your site. You can control the flow of PageRank, and you can keep search engine spiders away from paid links that they don’t want to see. This post goes into how to build an outbound link script using PHP.

Rotating banner ads are extremely useful and far more effective than static ads that people quickly ignore as “visual noise”. This post shows you an easy way to write a script that can put random banner ads on your site without needing a database or complicated third party solution.

There are a number of reasons why you’d want to change WordPress’ default settings. This post goes over our standard practices and why we’ve adopted them.
But the first step, of course, is to install WordPress. To do that, go to wordpress.org and follow the directions given there (the directions they have are pretty excellent). To [...]