Articles by SEO Dave

This SEO question appears on most SEO forums from time to time and is another generally misunderstood SEO topic and one all SEO consultants should understand. What’s a static HTML page? The classic static web page is generated from an actual page ‘physically’ located on the server: so if you had a page named static-page.html somewhere on your server you could find and download this page (it exists, you could grab it via FTP). The very first websites all used static HTML pages and so the first search engines cut their teeth on static web pages. What’s a dynamically generated web page? As the web developed a new way to generate websites arrived, dynamically generated web pages. They differ from […]

Spent half a day trying to figure out Mailman mailing list under Virtualmin (control panel) and Centos 6.4 Apache server. Problem one was turns out the Godaddy VPS Centos 6.4 repository (the one Godaddy recommends) I’m using has not updated the mailman script for YEARS. The Godaddy VPS server this domain is running on was running Mailman v2.1.12 from I think 2009 when Mailman v2.1.18 from May 2014 was available. Should I Upgrade Mailman? I didn’t NEED to upgrade per se (Mailman 2.1.12 works), but since old software tends to have more security vulnerabilities and less features than new versions, I always upgrade when I can. Life is very easy with a server when you can type “yum update” in […]

For those not familiar with the SEO silo concept, in a nutshell you try to theme or niche every part of a site to a specific content niche so as many of the elements on each webpage support THAT web pages SERPs NOT the site as a whole or other sections of the website. No idea why it was termed SEO silo and not SEO content theming or SEO content niching since silos are large storage devices, used for storing grain, coal etc… below is an image of a grain silo, I just don’t see the relationship? SEO Silo? SEO silo is really niching or theming your content into a distinct organizational structure that limits interaction with non niched content. […]

New WordPress Page Template for Stallion Responsive 8.1 for listing the top 10 authors by post count of a multi author WordPress site. This WordPress page template is only useful to multi author WordPress sites and this WordPress site has just the one author (me) and one author with no posts (used that author for importing posts from other sites), so this example page (the page you are on now) won’t do the page template justice. With a multiple author site each author has a block of content like you see later. The top 10 author page template shows your sites most active authors by post count with their most recent article using the format you see on a category […]

As a WordPress user of over 8 years with over 100 WordPress blogs I’ve seen my fair share of comment SPAM. Until yesterday I swore by Akismet comment SPAM plugin, have Akismet installed on all my WordPress blogs and thought it was blocking a lot of SPAM comments. Yesterday I discovered a serious Google SEO performance issue with Akismet v3.0. Akismet SPAM Plugin I’ve used Akismet as a matter of course for years, one of the first plugins I activate on a new WordPress install. However, Akismet v3.0 is adding three javascript files to the front end of posts with comments enabled. Don’t know exactly why Akismet needs these javascript files, I’m guessing some sort of SPAM honeypot. Akismet Honeypot […]

The Stallion Responsive Video Tutorials are at the bottom of the content, this WordPress Post is also demonstrating a Stallion Responsive 8.1+ WordPress Page Template (WordPress Page Templates allow webmasters to have more control over content) that includes a widget area directly below the main text content. You could in principle add a widget area (where you can add WordPress widgets) to almost any area of a webpage, with most WordPress themes there’s a handful of widget areas, with Stallion Responsive v8.0 there are 23 widget area and this could double for version 8.1: the only real limit is not confusing users with too many widget areas. Currently testing the concept, plan to make multiple WordPress Page Templates that use […]