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BluDomain mobile and improved SEO with WordPress

August 3, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

When WordPress is added to your BluDomain website, it not just a blog, it also covers the need for site visitors to have mobile and HTML versions. There are even options that can make your WordPress installation way more mobile friendly making sure that smart phone users will always be able to see and use your website. And the SEO advantages of WordPress are well respected, (heck … BluDomain even uses WordPress for the blog on their own website).

WordPress just works! If you like your BluDomain website, it can be even better and give you more reach and visitors with WordPress.

Here are some free plugin resources that can take a WordPress improved BluDomain website mobile -

WPtouch: A simple, powerful and elegant mobile theme for your website. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application.
Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes.

Not only is WordPress fully mobile, it even has free apps to make it easy to edit and update with mobile devices.

WordPress for iOS easily edit your WordPress website with iPhone/iPad.
WordPress for Android easily edit your W0rdPress site from Android smart phones and tablets

WordPress is the best Bludomain add-on. Let me help take your current BluDomain website to the next level of SEO, social networking and mobile accessibility. Just send me and email or leave a comment.

Filed Under: BluDomain, Internet Marketing, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: BluDomain, search engine optimization, search marketing, SEM, SEO, SMO, WordPress

Search optimizing a basic BluDomain Flash website How-To

July 26, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

This is a quick two part video tutorial review of how to setup the SEO elements of a BluDomain Flash site and splash page for the maximum SEO possible. I work on many different standard BluDomain based websites weekly and it is unusual when all the SEO related elements are already completed and optimized as I show you below. BluDomain does not have the robust possibilities of using WordPress for the splash page and blog, but you should take every opportunity presented to craft your site to present your search marketing keywords.

Part 1 – Maximizing the standard BluDomain splash page’s SEO

Part 2 – Maximizing the typical BluDomain Flash website template’s SEO

More on the death of meta keywords and why you should skip using them

If you have any questions, would like to know more about the additional SEO options included in using WordPress or would like an SEO analysis and quote for enhancing the search marketing and SEO of your current BluDomain website … please send me an email or leave a comment below.

Filed Under: BluDomain, SEO Tagged With: BluDomain, Internet Marketing, search engine optimization, Search Engines, search marketing, SEM, SEO

Replacement BluDomain SEO splash page now with WordPress widgets.

July 18, 2011 by Marc

Besides low SEO potential one of the issues with BluDomain splash pages is the lack of flexibility in adding new elements to increase your interaction with site visitors.

One of our approaches to improving BluDomain SEO has been to replace the standard BluDomain splash page with a WordPress based splash page, but it did not have the easy capability to add extras like Facebook friends widgets. Well, it does now! We have added three easy to use widget areas across the footer of our BluDomain replacement splash page. This means you can now add any WordPress widget to your splash page. Flickr, Facebook, Google, Social media, Twitter Feeds … what ever you want. It will increase site visitor interaction with your splash page and provide potential SEO enhancements. Below is a video of how it works -

If you want to know more about improving the SEO and search marketing of your Bludomain site, feel free to leave a comment or send me an email.

Filed Under: BluDomain, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: BluDomain, search engine optimization, search marketing, search optimization, SEO, splash page, WordPress

BluDomain owns over 17,000 domain names. Why yours should not be one of them.

July 18, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

Every week I analyse a few websites for people using BluDomain templates seeking ways to improve their site and increase their SEO and search marketing. When I do this I look up where the site is hosted and in whose name the domain is registered. It is not uncommon for more than 40% of the domain names of the BluDomain sites I analyse to be held and registered in the name of BluDomain, rather than the business owner who uses the domain. You need to control and manage your domain, it is your business identity on the internet. Having your domain name registered in another person’s name is problematic for a number of reasons:

1) Most importantly according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) policy the person or company who is identified as the registrant is the person who owns the domain name. If there is a dispute or question as to the owner, the identified registrant receives preference. If you are not sure if you are the registrant of your domain name you can look it up on a Whois, I like this one – http://www.whois.sc/. For well over 17,000 domain names you will see information something like this:

Registrant:
BluDomain
17919 E. Dorado Drive
Centennial, Colorado 80015
United States

2) By being the registrant you get to make decisions such as; which registrar to use for your domain, how you want to be billed for your registration fees, if you want to extend your registration term to over five years for SEO purposes, other services such as privacy and even shop for ease or use and savings.

Fortunately to transfer your domain from BluDomain as registrant to yourself as registrant is easy and very low-cost. There are two things you need to do to begin to change the registrant to your name:

Send a support ticket to Bludomain asking for them to transfer the domain name to you.
Determine where you want to have your name registered. At this time I like GoDaddy’s domain name services (it is the company that BluDomain uses too). GoDaddy is a good domain name registrar and low-cost too (but GoDaddy is not so good for most website hosting). Wherever you decide to manage your domain you need an account to receive the domain name transfer and have it your name. GoDaddy can start this with you over the phone at (408) 505 -8877

That is all you need, but if you have any questions or would like me to analyse your Bludomain for ways to improve its SEO feel free to send an email or leave a comment.

Filed Under: BluDomain, Domains Tagged With: BluDomain, domain names, search optimization, SEO, website marketing

Getting WordPress Pretty Permalinks to work on some newer Bludomain hosting accounts

March 20, 2011 by Marc 2 Comments

This post is useful if you are trying to use WordPress’ Pretty Permalinks for the SEO benefit but are having “index.php” showup in the pretty permalink URL on your Bludomain host or other webservers identifying as “WebServerX”. On a few Bludomain hosted sites with WordPress this is a significant problem. The problem is created by the reported Bludomain server identity as WebServerX rather than Apache. It is a masking technique used for security by hiding the true type of web server (Apache) and/or to reduce the use of other software requiring Apache identified servers being loaded by website owners. When you install WordPress with the default link structure everything will work fine. But when you want to change to pretty permalinks which are very useful for SEO and site visitors alike WordPress needs to create a new htaccess file.

In this situation WordPress looks for “Apache” but finds “WebServerX” so WordPress believes that “index.php” needs to be part of the pretty permalink. The reason for the problem is that since WordPress doesn’t think it’s running on Apache it doesn’t create/write to the needed .htaccess file.

There is a way to fix this and get the better “prettier” and better for SEO permalink structure. First check to make sure that the issue is because you are hosted on a host identified as WebServerX. An easy check is to go to http://whois.domaintools.com and enter your website’s URL. This will return the Whois Record for your domain. Click on the Server Stats tab. Then look for the line “Server Type: _________”. If your server type reads “WebServerX server” then you know the source of your pretty permalink problem and you can fix it in the next step.

Fortunately we can easily override the WebServerX masking manually. All that is needed is to insert the code below into your theme’s functions.php file using the Appearance > Editor option in your WordPress admin panel.

global $is_apache; $is_apache = true;

Basically this just bypasses the variable check and manually tells WordPress that it’s running on Apache so it will create the needed htaccess file to remove the index.php from the pretty permalink url.

Please note that this function will NOT work for WordPress sites running on Microsoft IIS web servers.

Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you have any questions.

Filed Under: BluDomain, WordPress Tagged With: BluDomain, SEO, WordPress

Nice words from Mike Black of Black Studios Photography

January 20, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

When I do a website for a business, the scope includes many, many details that are related in enhancing the search marketing and social media marketing potential of their business’ web presence. It is not just about the website look anymore. Details include; website code validation, social media integration, search marketing keyword content creation, site visitor lead conversion, the website and hosting speed, even domain name and registration optimization. Over the last years I have helped Mike with all of this, including two website. So I really appreciated this recent note from Mike.

A big thank you goes out to Marc Fuller for helping me figure out some SEO issues with our website. I love the Bludomain flash website product for our galleries and Marc has been great at helping us integrate a WordPress based Bludomain web/blogsite wrap for www.blackstudios.com , now in it’s second generation.

I can figure out about 80% of what I need to do, but it’s Marc that takes it to the next level with his customizations and detailed internet marketing optimization knowledge.

I just like to create websites that win new business for my clients.

Filed Under: Testimonials Tagged With: BluDomain, search marketing, search optimization, SEM, social media, Social Networks, web/blogsites, website marketing, WordPress

Kudos from Dapper Images – San Diego wedding photography studio

January 17, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

We are a wedding photography studio and are so pleased with the work that Marc has done for us!

We hired him to create a new WordPress based splash page layout for our Bludomain flash website so that it would be search engine friendly. And very easy to update/modify.

We also had him create a new blog layout for us that is under the same domain name as our website, so that when we post keyword rich blog posts with relevant tags, it would point back to our main website, and not just to our blog domain.

Now our website and blog are under the same domain and we are thrilled because we know this will make our website so much more visible to search engines. Marc was amazing to work with, great communication, we highly recommend him!

Yasmine + Deshun
dapperimages.com

Filed Under: Testimonials Tagged With: BluDomain, search engine optimization, Search Engines, search marketing, search optimization, SEM, social media, splash page, web/blogsites, Websites, WordPress

Replacing a Bludomain splash page with WordPress splash page for better SEO and Search Marketing

January 11, 2011 by Marc 2 Comments

Recently Dapper Images a wedding and portrait photographer located in San Diego asked if and how I would enhance the search engine marketing and SEO with their current Bludomain website located at dapperimages.com and their separate WordPress blog located at dapperimagesblog.com?

new splash page Replacing a Bludomain splash page with WordPress splash page for better SEO and Search Marketing

Dapper Images New WordPress based Bludomain splash page

They wanted to retain a Bludomain type splash page appearance and the basic layout of their blog’s styling. They also wanted a WordPress site that would be easy to customize the styling design with just click and save options.

The Bludomain site was, and is, hosted by Bludomain. The blog was hosted by a separate company on a Windows IIS server (please remember … friends don’t let friends host WordPress on Microsoft servers).

We discussed the tasks, options and prices and got the go ahead to begin the process. The first step was to install WordPress on their Bludomain hosting and then begin to create a WordPress based splash page and move the blog postings/content to dapperimages.com Then begin styling the major changes and minor design adjustments accordingly.

Below is a video review covering some of how the Bludomain splash page was replaced with a WordPress landing page for better site and blog integration and way better SEO and search marketing. Even looks better!

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Part 3:

Filed Under: BluDomain, Client Websites, Featured, WordPress Tagged With: blog, BluDomain, search engine optimization, Search Engines, search marketing, SEM, SEO, SMO, Social Networks, Websites, WordPress

Prepare your Bludomain hosting for the new 2011 WordPress version 3.2 requirements

January 11, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

I work with Bludomain websites and hosting on a daily basis and one of the recurring limitations of most Bludomin hosting accounts has been the issue of exhausting allowed memory resources, there will soon be another frequent issue. That issue is that many Bludomain hosting accounts still use an aged version of PHP, PHP version 4.7, and/or MySQL version 4 that in the next few months will no longer meet the minimum requirements needed to run WordPress.

Last summer WordPress announced that self-hosted WordPress from version 3.2 forward will require PHP version 5.2 and higher. Here are the details and formal PHP 4, MySQL 4 end-of-life announcement from WordPress.org

With this in mind when you order a Bludomain website and have it hosted by Bludomain and may wish to use WordPress with your hosting, specify that you want the hosting account to have this requirements for WordPress:

PHP 5.2 or higher
MySQL 5.0.15 or higher, and
64M or more for the PHP memory resource limit.

If you already have Bludomain hosting with WordPress you might want to send Bludomain a support request asking about these minimum requirements for your current hosting account.

WordPress 3.1 will be released in days with 3.2 coming in about just 6 months. Make sure that your WordPress can still be upgraded when the time comes.

Filed Under: BluDomain, WordPress Tagged With: BluDomain, hosting, MySQL, PHP, WordPress

WordPress Fatal Error Allowed Memory Size Exhausted on Bludomain Hosting

January 6, 2011 by Marc Leave a Comment

If you have installed WordPress on your Bludomain hosting account and have a good sized, well featured blog you may sometimes be getting an error message like this “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /….”

This error is caused when WordPress “bumps up against” the hosting account’s PHP memory limit. This can happen when doing tasks like uploading a number of images or using the automatic update feature.

In almost every Bludomain hosting account I have worked with the limit is set at 32M. But as WordPress has grown and become more powerful over the last few years 32M is very often not enough. Particularly if you have a blog with a lot of posts and/or using plugins like NextGen Gallery. These days it is best to allow WordPress 48M or even better 64M of PHP memory.

In most hosting accounts the memory limit is set in a file in the root directory named php.ini. All you need to do is find a line that looks like “memory_limit = 32M” and change the number to what is needed. Unfortunately in Bludomain’s typical hosting it is not that easy, the php.ini file is not accessible. And I have not found an always successful alternative with Bludomain. Workarounds, like setting the memory limit in the .htaccess file does not often work. Neither does modifying the WordPress wp-config.php file. Bludomain seems to have set the memory limit firmly in place.

My recommendation is that if you are experiencing the memory exhausted fatal error send a support request to Bludomain requesting that the PHP memory limit for your hosting account be increased to 64M.

To see what your hosting memory limit is and how much of it your WordPress installation is using you can install and activate Alex Rabe’s handy plugin WP Memory Usage. WP Memory Usage will provide a graph with percentage usage as well as inform you of the PHP version in your WordPress dashboard. If you are showing over 85% memory usage you might as well send the support request into Bludomain soon. Once you get to 90% it is almost assured you will begin to experience the memory exhausted fatal error message from time to time. Let me know if you have any questions.

Filed Under: BluDomain, WordPress Tagged With: Blogs, blogsites, BluDomain, hosting, Websites, WordPress

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