Site Sketch 101 is powered by Wordpress. That should be no surprise to many of you. It is a very flexible blogging platform with the option to customize themes, plugins, and tons of options. As soon as I launched this site, I began changing a lot of settings in the administrative control panel in order to optimize my content for Google. I wanted to make sure that as soon as Google, Yahoo and other major search engines began scanning my site that it would be able to provide content that Google can actually list.
In this article, I am going to walk you through each modification that I made to my Wordpress setup as I began optimizing my content for search engines. Each of these tips are incredibly easy to follow through with and I’ll be right here if you have any questions so don’t hesitate to leave me some comments if you have any questions, suggestions, or input. (more…)
One of the very first posts that I published on Site Sketch 101 was titled “14 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic.“ Within days that article had received dozens of twits and quickly began to rise in page hits. I felt that it was quite successful considering the fact that this site was only days [...]
Let’s face it, there are a lot of things that each of us could do to increase our productivity and maximize our effectiveness in life, for our spouses, for our employers, and for our websites and blogs. The following are four very practical and useful things that could be done to help us accomplish those [...]
Last week I announced that I would be giving away $75 to one randomly selected person who is subscribed to our email updates. Since that time a lot of people have been pouncing on this opportunity. We have also installed a counter at the top of each page to display the number of people who [...]
Wordpress is one of the most powerful blogging platforms available today. It is very easy to use. It has widgets and plugins for almost everything that you can think of and there is a huge community of designers who are constantly creating and updating themes for Wordpress. This post is a collection of 11 of [...]
Here is a collection of amazing hand drawn websites. The art displayed in these websites is absolutely terrific. I’m a huge fan of making a strong use of texture based artwork. The textures and colors in these websites are great. Bold colors. Original designs. Excellent work here.
I hope that each of you will take a [...]
Site Sketch 101 is powered by Wordpress. That should be no surprise to many of you. It is a very flexible blogging platform with the option to customize themes, plugins, and tons of options. As soon as I launched this site, I began changing a lot of settings in the administrative control panel in order [...]
In case you’ve been wondering what font we used to create the logo at the top of Site Sketch 101, well then wonder no more. The name of the font is Sketch Rockwell and the most beautiful thing is that it is free. There are hundreds of great fonts out there but it is often [...]
Iconspedia is one of the best resources available online for free icons and graphics. Although they allow users to submit graphics to their collection, they filter through the submissions meticulously ensuring that only the best graphics get listed.
Their collection covers an extremely wide range of topics. They have icons for nearly every possible purpose. This [...]
Let’s face it, there are a lot of things that each of us could do to increase our productivity and maximize our effectiveness in life, for our spouses, for our employers, and for our websites and blogs. The following are four very practical and useful things that could be done to help us accomplish those [...]
As we continue our efforts in creating exciting, dynamic sites, we as webmasters and bloggers find ourselves looking for ways to enhance our sites and grow our visitor base. In other words, we want to make our sites better and get more people to view our websites.
The problem with not having many readers or [...]
Last week I announced that I would be giving away $75 to one randomly selected person who is subscribed to our email updates. Since that time a lot of people have been pouncing on this opportunity. We have also installed a counter at the top of each page to display the number of people who [...]
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