SEO

A local business needs to have its contact information present on every page of the site. That means name, address, phone number. This makes it easy for your customers to contact you without digging through unfamiliar navigation. It also helps the search engines understand that you are a local business and give you a boost accordingly.

The best place to put this information is together in the footer of your site. If you have a look at the bottom of this page you’ll see it on the right. Name, address phone number.

Ok, you may already have that in place, but is is just regular text or a Rich Snippet?

Rich Snippets are used by Google & Bing to better understand your website and enhance your search engine listing. Rich Snippets are often the reason you see some search engine results look a little differently, whether that’s a bulleted list, star reviews or a product image.

Rich Snippets are a small piece of code added to html tags that aren’t visible to the visitor. If you view the source of the page, you can see them if you’re really interested.

If you run your website on wordpress and your theme allows for footer widgets, just insert a text widget, copy & past the following and change the highlighted text to your details.
<div class=”vcard”>
<a class=”url fn n” href=”http://www.yourdomain.com”><div class=”org”>Business Name</div></a>
<div class=”adr”>
<div class=”street-address”>Street Address</div>
<span class=”locality”>Suburb</span> <span class=”region”>STATE</span> <span class=”postal-code”>Postcode</span>, <span class=”country-name”>Country</span>
</div>
<div class=”tel”>Phone Number</div>
</div>
It’s fairly self-explanatory, but basically, you’re using

Read more at Rich Snippets With Regard To Home Business Websites

This is an issue only for larger blogs. If you’ve got less than 100 posts, you probably don’t need to worry about it at this stage.

WordPress automatically saves a copy of your post every time you update it. If you’re like most people, some posts can have lots of versions before you’re happy with it.

The versions come from every time you hit Update after the post has been published, as well as some auto-saves.

On a large blog, this can seriously bloat the size of your database where the posts are stored. It’s made even worse if you tend to write long posts.

This feature is there as a safety net, in case you mess up down the track and delete something important. It’s also great when you have multiple authors, so you can track who did what.

Most of the time, these versions are redundant. How often do you go back to a post after you’ve published it and are happy with  it?

To see

Full article at WordPress Delete Article Revisions

Some time ago I did a post on how to use the WordPress Plugins Youtube Thumbnailer and WP Youtube together. Taking that one step further, what if you want to use your own thumnails for youtube videos, rather than the default ones?

You can easily modify the Youtube Thumbnailer plugin to do this.

You’ll need to name your own thumnails with the same name as the youtube shortcode they relate to.

For example, if you want to use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbiEMrqT1Q0 the shortcode would be MbiEMrqT1Q0

You would name the picture you want to use as the thumbnail for that video: MbiEMrqT1Q0.jpg

Upload it to your server in the usual way. All of the thumbnails must be stored in the same folder for this to work. I’m going to assume that folder it http://yourdomain.com/thumbnails/

So your url for the thubmnail in this example would be http://yourdomain.com/thumbnails/MbiEMrqT1Q0.jpg

Now to edit the plugin…

On lines 109 and 151 of youtube_thumbnails_script.php, change where it says
$img=”http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/{$match}/default.jpg”;
to be
$img=”http://yourdomain.com/thumbnails/{$match}.jpg”;
where http://yourdomain.com/thumbnails/ is the folder for the thumbnails.

* Note: I haven’t tested this out – it was a question from a reader, but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work as stated. If you have any problems, or you can confirm it works

Read more about this at Use Your Have Thumbnails As Opposed To Youtube’s Non-payment