Are you planning on launching a new website? If your current website is already getting some Google traffic, and maybe ranking well for some keywords already, don’t make the mistake of ruining it with your launch. Even if your new website design has all the latest SEO tricks and tweaks, you stand a good chance of disappearing from search engines if you don’t plan ahead. This guide breaks down the key steps you should take to keep your existing SEO rank intact.
Continue reading
Tag Archives: wordpress
Sometimes premade themes are an excellent solution. You can potentially find a lot of features that would otherwise cost big bucks to code from scratch. But it’s a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly. This post examines some of the pros and cons of using premade WordPress themes vs. a fully custom theme.
WordPress has a handy little function called the_category() which outputs a link to the current post category in the loop. Unfortunately it adds a rel tag that breaks HTML5 validation. Here’s a quick fix for your theme’s functions.php.
When you use the WordPress menu system and wp_nav_menu() function in your theme, menus will by default get wrapped in a <DIV> container. Since wp_nav_menu() displays list items, this ends up outputting invalid HTML. A <DIV> is not allowed as a direct descendant of a <UL> element.
