Zach Browne

Install Oracle Java JDK on Ubuntu in 3 Commands

Zach Browne — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:48:24 +0000

Every time I have install Oracle’s version of Java (JDK) 7 I end up getting frustrated trying several different methods that I find on Google that don’t work. WEB UPD8 has created their own PPA with Oracle Java and it’s great! It’s the only method that has worked for me every time on Ubuntu 10.04, [...]

Best Practices for WordPress Performance

Zach Browne — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:23:07 +0000

Posted in WordPress

As the Internet evolves and becomes more woven into the fabric of our daily lives, so do the expectations of its users. As users’ expectations become more demanding, search engines such as Google are forced to improve their search algorithms and deliver higher quality and more relative search results. In order to improve their search [...]

Track and Chart the Daily Fluctuations of Keyword Searches at RankPulse

Zach Browne — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:28:51 +0000

Posted in SEO

Every time you visit Google and type in a term or phrase, Google must decide which websites to display and in what order. Some keywords appear in Google’s database hundreds of millions of times, however the first page of the search results displays only ten websites. Google spends a ton of time and resources to [...]

MySQL Commands for Moving WordPress to a New Domain

Zach Browne — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:32:30 +0000

Posted in WordPress

When you move WordPress to a new domain you would think that just moving your database and your web files over and launching it would do the trick… but it doesn’t. Not only will your custom url settings be skewed but the database will redirect most links back to the original site. Once you’ve moved [...]

Eight Key Factors to be Aware of When Optimizing Your Website for the Search Engines

Zach Browne — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:08:18 +0000

Posted in SEO

I recently read a post on SEOmoz.com that spoke to the fact that SEO is not enough any more. That you must broaden your marketing horizon to encompass several other factors to be successful on the net. These steps are directly from SEOCopy, I just my readership would be interested. It makes complete sense that this is [...]

Huge List of High Quality SEO Resources

Zach Browne — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:38:40 +0000

Posted in SEO

A website that pleases its visitors pleases Google and a high quality, search engine optimized website and closing business goes hand-in-hand. You already offer great customer service, have an excellent business model and every reason to be generating profit – you should be getting all the sales you want. If you’re not, you most likely need help with [...]

Huge List of Page Speed Optimization Factors

Zach Browne — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:37:35 +0000

Posted in SEO

Website  load  times  have  been  identified  as  a  crucial  factor  to  measure  the  performance  of  a  website.  With  the  information  deluge  on  the  Internet,  user’s  patience  levels  have  been  continuously decreasing.  Web   users  are  constantly  begging  for  faster  page  downloads. According  to  the  findings  of  independent  surveys  conducted  by  Lightner,  Bose  and  Salvendy  indicates  that  the  most  widely [...]

List of the Best SEO Tools Available

Zach Browne — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:18:33 +0000

Posted in SEO

Competitor Research Yahoo Site Explorer Compete Market Samurai SpyFu SERP Analytics Authority Labs Keyword Research Google Keyword Tool Google Trends Google Insights Microsoft Ad Intelligence Yahoo Clues Market Samurai SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool Authority Labs SEO Prolifer Word Tracker Mint Data Wikipedia Article Traffic Stats SERP Analytics Keyword Revision Mircosoft Ad Intelligence Yahoo Clues [...]

Detailed List of Factors to Consider When Evaluating a Site for Proper SEO

Zach Browne — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:04:22 +0000

Posted in SEO

This is a list of factors I’ve collected from several resources, SEOMoz being one, that are a must if you want to thoroughly evaluate a website for proper search engine optimization. On-Page (Keyword-Specific) Ranking Factors Keyword Use Anywhere in the Title Tag Keyword Use as the First Word(s) of the Title Tag Keyword Use in [...]

List of High Quality Resources for Link Building in 2011

Zach Browne — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:53:45 +0000

Posted in SEO

Search Engine Blogs Official Google Blog Official Yahoo! Search Blog Official Bing Search Blog Official Ask.com Blog Great Link Building Articles Your Roadmap to Ranking #1 in Google – Things to consider when building links to your website, what you really want and need. (Published February 10, 2011) 21 Advanced Link Building Strategies – Here [...]

Guide to Performing Basic SEO

Zach Browne — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:14:36 +0000

Posted in SEO

This guide will take you through the basic steps of performing SEO on your website. Keyword Research Keywords are the words that web surfers enter in search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Bing – with the probable intent of finding products to buy, useful information, news or things to entertain. You’ll want to optimize your [...]

Guide to WordPress Comment SPAM

Zach Browne — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:16:33 +0000

Posted in WordPress

As your WordPress blog gets noticed and generates traffic, it becomes a natural target for spammers. If you’re noticing posts on your site that you don’t expect, or see users in the Dashboard that you didn’t create, you have other security problems. Most likely, your blog posts will accrue a variety of spam comments as [...]

Guide to WordPress Load Managment

Zach Browne — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:15:51 +0000

Posted in Default

At some point, you (hopefully) hit the performance limit of a single software stack on one physical server. That’s when you may want to load balance your WordPress site with one or more additional servers. It could be for scalability to handle more requests, or as a failover precaution to increase the availability of your [...]

Guide to WordPress Cache Management

Zach Browne — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:15:25 +0000

Posted in WordPress

If you’ve ever seen a Slashdotted, Dugg, or Fireballed site suddenly fail to respond, you’ve witnessed the consequences of insufficient caching. A dynamic site has to query the database several times to assemble each page a visitor requests. Queries for a typical WordPress page include the bloginfo() options (site title, description, language, theme stylesheet URL), [...]

Guide to WordPress Performance

Zach Browne — Sat, 21 May 2011 21:46:27 +0000

Posted in WordPress

Here are the best ways for speeding up your WordPress. Minimize HTTP Requests 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of [...]

Thorough List of Factors That Help Speed Up Your WordPress Website

Zach Browne — Sat, 21 May 2011 21:46:27 +0000

Posted in Default

WordPress Website Performance Optimization Best Practices

Zach Browne — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:09:05 +0000

Posted in WordPress

Web optimization is a vital part of web development and maintenance but also something often overlooked by webmasters. Just think of the money you can save, and how it can potentially help increase your readership and traffic when they are properly done. If you have not done any optimization to your website (or blog) so [...]

How to Configure a Lightning Fast WordPress Website

Zach Browne — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:05:28 +0000

Posted in Default

Build a secure web server using Apache as a Reverse Proxy, Nginx, PHP-CGI for PHP requests, PHP-APC for caching, and Google Pagespeed (mod_pagespeed) for Minification, Compression and several other things. This configuration is fairly thorough, meaning it covers most of your speed and security requirements, but I’m wide open to comments on how to improve [...]

How to Quickly Check a List of Keywords for Available Domains

Zach Browne — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:02:21 +0000

Posted in SEO

I was interested today in finding a domain for my new side business, online technical support. I wanted to find a good domain but didn’t want to hand type in thousands of domains to figure out what was available so I came up with a pretty fast method of finding a great domain with the [...]

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Zach Browne — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:12:09 +0000

Posted in General

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