Alexa displaying no data for your website?

Alexa gave me a shocker today. Normally since few weeks my website has been ranking in range of 50k to 40k. But today when I visit Alexa to check my sites’ rank, it was truly a shocker. The ‘rank’ is nearly 240k and ‘reach’ being a mere 0.0007%.
I can see in my site stats that [...]

Pretty permalinks for Wordpress local ISS host

I was struggling to get this right since a few days and now finally I’ve got it. I installed a local version of my wordpress blog using Microsoft IIS, but the default ugly permalinks have been haunting me. I couldn’t do any testing since all my blogs use pretty permalinks.
Since I use Apache web server [...]

What are web friendly fonts?

I personally like the Lucida Grande font, but I went for a safer Arial font on this website Sriraj Digital Magazine, why? Simply because Lucida Grande may not always be present in the computers of my readers. Ever since Microsoft announced the core fonts for the web program Arial, Verdana and Georgia have become the [...]

Wordpress stats plugin now shows home page views too

What I noticed today when I went to the site stats section is that the Wordpress stats plugin is showing number of views the home page (without any link) of my blog received. Until now it was only showing the top posts and pages but adding home page definitely makes more sense. I also observe [...]

How to construct an XML site map for your mobile website

Seeing the reports of Admob, a mobile advertising network, it is very evident that the number of people using mobile phones (or touch devices like iPods) to surf the web is growing leaps and bounds every month. In this case, it is so very essential for a webmaster to have his mobile site ready for [...]

Wordpress 2.8 on June 10. Don’t wait, just download it

…..it’s packed with features
June 10th may be the date when Wordpress 2.8 will be released as per the statement on the Wordpress website. Just going by the features of 2.8 one gets the feeling that this would be final Big upgrade version of Wordpress and the next upgrades (if any) will just be minor tweaks [...]

Create a sub-category dropdown box

To create a category/sub-category drop down box, we just simply have to use the code that we use in the case of archives, of course making small adjustments.
Now assume that you want to make a dropdown archive of a category called ‘cars’ which has a category ID of say 18. You can place the following [...]

Deactivating plugins when unable to login

Last week I encountered a wordpress headers problem due to which I was unable to login to my admin page.
I looked for any white spaces in the affected file (wp-config.php) but found none. It was perfectly alright and just to make sure of it I even replaced that file with a fresh download.
The problem still [...]

Show different posts per page

Setting your blog’s home page to show only excerpts of your posts looks good as it gives your visitors a hint about the topics of your blog. But there is a problem. I personally find it very irritating when I make a category or tag search and see only a limited number of posts (the [...]

Have a good blog title, improve your SERP results

A title for your homepage should invariably describe the whole of your blog in a sentence. It’s the descriptive part of your blog as a whole that the search engines look for when crawling your site.
For example if your blog is about Autos then have a title something like ‘latest auto news from around the [...]

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