This one is from experience. Sometimes, when I come across that blog I never saw, I tend to dig up it’s metrics. You know when you are on a successful blog right? Within just a few seconds of your visit, you can identify if this is an MFA, a passion blog or a high value [...]

You would’ve seen those cool “flash boxes” on certain sites that slides away featured articles and images with custom text on it right ? I think they are pretty good to show off your content to the five second visitor who may not otherwise notice it. It’s in fact a good way to increase [...]

Dinu, a fellow blogger from Cochin is pretty impressed with Amy Mahon’s  wordpress theme over here, and was wondering what’s that funky text doing at the post titles ?
Watch closely and you’ll find that the post titles are replaced with cool text effects rather than the plain text.

Right click on the title and you’ll [...]

Just to let you know that there are some minor yet noticeable changes in the DSB design right now.

Apart from this, there are some major design changes coming up soon, where there will be lot more cool things happening. This is a minor change, however.
I am in talks with a couple of Wordpress theme designers [...]

There’s something with themes with large headers that others don’t have. Well, large headers have the added advantage of making an impression on the visitors, despite your well written content. They make an impression with the bright images and also provides more real estate for SEO. More than anything else, you have an extra option [...]

There are of course a bunch of basic SEO elements that you should check your site for occasionally like the W3C validation, redirect errors, sitemap generation errors etc. These crop up unknowingly and are identified only when a problem occurs. Example – If you are using the All in One SEO plugin, in the settings [...]

Been speaking to a young blogger who asked me, “Isn’t all blogspot blogs owned by Google, so why don’t they promote it up the SERPs?”
We’ll I’d be running out of job in that case, and I’m glad it’s not. But the answer is that Google wants an accurately indexed data that’s completely based on [...]

One of the things that gathers moss as we go along is the site design. And it’s even worse with blogs. Wordpress unfortunately has got lot of plugins and frills available for free, that we all keep on adding them until one day we find that it’s all biting back on the blog.
For instance, all [...]

This week, we’ll be focussing on onsite optimization strategies and quick fixes that will give you a shot up the ladder. Less time, quick work and immediate results are what we are talking about.
Today, let’s discuss twelve super quick fixes for your blog that will help you get that extra boost on the search engines. [...]