imugur.com » blog http://imugur.com Technology blog Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:43:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Spring is here http://imugur.com/spring-is-here.html http://imugur.com/spring-is-here.html#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:18:04 +0000 admin http://imugur.com/?p=40 In Romania we celebrate spring by giving mărţişor to all girls:
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]]> http://imugur.com/spring-is-here.html/feed 0 Some words about Search Engine Optimization http://imugur.com/some-words-about-search-engine-optimization.html http://imugur.com/some-words-about-search-engine-optimization.html#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:41:46 +0000 admin http://imugur.com/some-words-about-search-engine-optimization.html The previous article was explaining a bit about the need of preparing the blog sitemap to ease the work of search engine crawlers. To improve even better the position of your blog into the search engines database a new concept was born some years ago: Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is good if you want to be on top of internet searches but every search engine is having secret algorithms for ranking different sites in internet. SEO gives some general rules to be respected by webmasters but there is no clear receipe on how to be the first in internet searches. For WordPress users there is an “all in one SEO pack” plugin that can help positioning your blog higher. It can be downloaded and installed directly from WordPress admin pages.

]]> http://imugur.com/some-words-about-search-engine-optimization.html/feed 0 First plug-in http://imugur.com/first-plug-in.html http://imugur.com/first-plug-in.html#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:15:38 +0000 admin http://imugur.com/first-plug-in.html You started writing on your blog, you have a lot of ideas but you don’t have to many visitors. What to do? You need to inform the search engines about your blog. Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines normally crawl the internet and indexes all new servers found. But in order to ease crawlers work and organize the indexed information you need a sitemap for your blog. The crawlers are actually looking for the sitemap file and the robots file and if not found they will try to index the site as is but not with best results.

The first plug-in for wordpress that I recommend is Google XML Sitemaps. The plug-in will generate a sitemap for your blog and then it will notify the search engines about the changes in your sitemap. In this way your latest articles will be automatically crawled and made available to the searches.

]]> http://imugur.com/first-plug-in.html/feed 0 Why WordPress? http://imugur.com/why-wordpress.html http://imugur.com/why-wordpress.html#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:29:26 +0000 admin http://imugur.com/?p=5 I have chosen my blogging platform as WordPress for two reasons: it’s the most spread platform across internet, making it very open and easy to evolve and because is the most easy to use, customizable and accessible. I was trying other platforms but in the past one and a half years it’s the main one used in all my blogs (I have several other blogs specialized on different topics, mainly on WordPress but I am using also SharePoint and Blogger platforms).

]]> http://imugur.com/why-wordpress.html/feed 0 imugur.com – some history http://imugur.com/hello-world.html http://imugur.com/hello-world.html#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:25:21 +0000 admin http://imugur.com/?p=1 imugur is my alias for internet. I got this name in 1995 from my uncle who was providing my internet access, at that time through the university he was working with. That time, the access speeds were very slow and I was using a 9600bps modem (Hayes compatible), I don’t even remember the type. Later on (1998) I have changed it with an US Robotics Sportster which was capable of 33600 bps download speed (almost 4 times faster). Few months ago I decided that I need to broaden my spectrum of blog readers so I decided to register the domain imugur.com and share my experience with all internet readers that arrives here. If there is something that I know and I can help, I’ll do my best to help.

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