Archive for September, 2008

Pleasanton Criminal Defense Lawyers

Posted by admin in Pleasanton, lawyers on September 17th, 2008

From time to time I like to give a plug for one of my clients. Today it is O’Connor & Runckel LLP, criminal defense lawyers specializing in DUI defense. They are former deputy district attorneys, so they know the courtroom from both sides, and bring that unique perspective to their practice. They are located in the 925 (Concord to be exact) and serve the east bay area, inluding Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Oakland and surrounding localities.

Heaven forbid you get into trouble with a DUI, you want these guys on your side. They also take on personal injury cases, so if you get in a car accident caused by the negligence of the other party, they know how to get you the maximum restitution due to you.

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Dofollow Your Blog Comments

Posted by admin in backlinks, dofollow, seo, wordpress on September 10th, 2008

Want to bring link juice back into blog commenting? Join the Dofollow movement on your own blog, and others will follow.

As you probably know, the biggest purveyors of blogging software and blog hosting, Blogger and Wordpress, to name two, added a little think called a nofollow tag to links in their comments in hopes that killing the link juice from commenting blogs would disuade spammers from filling up everyone’s comments with crap links. Well it didn’t work too well, and in the process killed the joy of appropriately commenting blogs.

Here’s the Wordpress dofollow plugin, to get you started if you use Wordpress. If you are on Blogger, check out the instructions for defeating nofollow in the new Blogger. If you are on the old blogger, sorry, you are screwed (but we always were).

Then, to start making new dofollow friends, check out this dofollow blogs directory, and add your link. Sure, you will get spam comments, but you already do. Suck it up!

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Modify Joomla Page Title for SEO

Posted by admin in joomla, seo on September 5th, 2008

For Joomla 1.0.x (click here for Joomla 1.5)
Joomla’s standard way of displaying page titles is with the Site Name first, a dash, and then the title of the content. This is not the best way to display the page title for search engine optimization (SEO). The page title is a very important element in determining the relevance and ranking of your page to a keyword search. The search engines consider the first part of the page title the most important, so altering the page title so that the content title comes first and the Site Name second is a definite improvement. This is easily changed in /includes/joomla.php. Find the following text around line 503:

 function setPageTitle( $title=null ) {  if (@$GLOBALS['mosConfig_pagetitles']) {   $title = trim( htmlspecialchars( $title ) );   $title = stripslashes($title);   $this->_head['title'] = $title ? $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];  } }

and change to this:

function setPageTitle( $title=null ) {if (@$GLOBALS['mosConfig_pagetitles']) { $title = trim( htmlspecialchars( $title ) ); $title = stripslashes($title); $this->_head['title'] = $title ? $title .' - '. $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];  } }

Having the same Site Name on every page of your site, however only serves to reduce the relevance of each page title to the keyword search and your targeted content. To completely remove the Site Name, instead replace the function above with this:

function setPageTitle( $title=null ) { if (@$GLOBALS['mosConfig_pagetitles']) {  $title = trim( htmlspecialchars( $title ) );  $title = stripslashes($title);  $this->_head['title'] = $title ? $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];  } }

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