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Understanding How Rich Snippets & SEO

Try explaining rich snippets to some not totally versed in Internet technology and you’ll be lucky if all you get back is a blank stare. The following infographic does a great job of explaining what they are, and more importantly, what their benefit is to just about anyone with a website. Visual Guide to Rich …

USPS Rate and Rate V2 APIs to Expire Soon

If you are running an ecommerce store that relies on real-time rate lookups from the U.S. Postal Service then hopefully you are already aware of this looming deadline (March 31, 2012) and have made arrangements to prevent this from crippling your business. If you are running AspDotNetStorefront (our favorite ecommerce package) AND you rely on …

Beware of Setting WordPress Pages to Private

As of 3.3.1 (and possibly earlier) when you set a WordPress Page (not Post mind you but Page) to Private, it has the undesirable affect of hiding the page from everyone but the creator of the Page. The preferred way to pull a page off the site temporarily would be to change it’s status back …

Definitive guide to rel="author" and rel="me" on WordPress?

Joost de Valk of Yoast fame, has written the definitive guide to rel=”author” and rel=”me” integration into WordPress. Or should I say it almost is the definitive guide. There are few things here that need to be considered: If you are running his WordPress SEO plugin, you need to be sure that under Indexation | …