W3C is in it’s basic form an organization that sets the “standards” of the online web language. It’s basically the rules in how to format your code. But is being 100% compliant important for your SEO? Will you end up at the bottom of the SERP’s for not being compliant, and number one for been 100% compliant?
Read & Discuss »I am a big fan of A/B Split testing. You never can tell when somewhat minor changes and tweaks can really make a difference. When the overall design is destined to stay the same, but you want to squeeze every ounce you can out of your traffic, this is where A/B Split testing can help.
Read & Discuss »Sometimes working with Wordpress it is just easier to do things from the MySQL Database than to do something inside Wordpress. In fact depending on what you need to do it might be the only way. Here are a few of my queries that I keep on hand just in case.
Read & Discuss »In this article I discuss a few of the Myths around using Google Analytics compared to Log File Analytics. Any system you choose is potentially going to be inaccurate to some degree, so choosing the most accurate, precise method should be your goal. In addition, what are you really trying to track?
Read & Discuss »In this post I’m going to entertain some intermediate level tasks to improve website performance. Some of these steps will require some editing of files that not every user will feel comfortable changing. If you don’t feel comfortable making the changes, contact your web host or a competent web developer to make the changes for you. The bonus on most of these changes is they can affect more than just X-Cart. You can use them for other shopping carts, and they’ll even speed up the performance of other systems such as Wordpress or Forums that you might be using.
Read & Discuss »There are many reasons to improve the performance of your X-Cart eCommerce Store, the primary reason of course is to make sure that your visitors aren’t hanging around waiting for pages to load. Studies show that the visitors patience is getting shorter and shorter, especially as the new generation never had to live with dial up speeds. In addition, some search engines like Google will even soon begin using the speed of your site as a ranking factor.
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