To www or not to www?

Many less internet savvy visitors to websites expect that a website must have a www proceeding its domain name. Well, that’s not true. It isn’t necessary and is seen by many as a redundant prefix.

In fact some people have such a strong opinion about the subject that they have gone so far as to campaign against the 3 w’s! One such website is no-www.org which encourages web users to join the non-www revolution, however the majority of websites seem to still use the 3 w’s. Continue reading

Top of google.co.uk!

I try to keep googling myself down to a minimum…

However in order to track the performance of the various sites I do SEO work for I put in the odd search every now and then. A couple of days ago I tried ‘China freelance consultant’ on google.co.uk, which is one of the main phrases I have been trying to optimize for. Low and behold benjamindowty.info was number 1! Continue reading

Yet another list of wordpress plugins!

Seen quite a few people moaning about the number of ‘top 10 wordpress plugins’ or ‘essential wordpress tools’ type articles about. I’m about to add to that number and I hope I will read many more articles like them. I think its genuinely useful and interesting to get other wordpress users opinions and advice on what plugins they use. Plus we need new articles for the new plugins that are being added all the time! Continue reading