Alright guys sorry for the inactivity I’ve been designing this blog for a day or so and coding wordpress its a pain. I’ve got it all sorted and its all valid XHTML and it looks pretty nice. At the very top there is a RSS link that you can click (its actually an image) and it’ll send you to the rss feed. Hope everyone likes the new style and believe me its well worth it. No new design for a while, maybe an update or two but no new design.

As for blogging I got to post the second part of “Long Term Project Planning” article. Its nice, I’ve giving you a example that I will work with throughout each part I’ll be writing. Expect a part a week, and different posts throughout the week.

New plug ins, yes thats right I’ll be adding new plug ins to support my subscribers and people who comment on my blog, so it’ll be a “Do Follow” blog by the end of tonight. Look out for the updates and have a great time reading what I write about.

Regards,
Lamonte Harris.

How To: Get Mod Rewrite working on Xampp

Want a workable test environment on your Xampp server to use mod rewritten urls for seo purposes? After doing some great research its easy as pie.
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Web Development and Meta Tags

I know people are tired of hearing these SEO tips and all, but this is useful and I’m pretty sure no one explains how to use the description in this way.

Maximum Google Meta Tag Description Characters

Yes thats right, Google has a maximum amount of characters that it displays on the search index. I been doing some studying and Google’s max characters is around 154-157. Even though this is Google’s maximum length, this will still be effective in other search engines also.

Effective Meta Tag Description

In order to have a pretty effective description you must use 2-3 of your most used keywords in your description at least twice, any more or any less will fail to get you high SERPS. Then again you got to make sure to get an effective description in under 157 characters, use as many characters as possible, but try to keep it to the maximum.

Meta Tag Description Dont’s

Do not use extra characters such as “….” or multiple spaces because it can hurt your ranking, because you lose those extra characters that you could have used to describe your website or an extra keyword that you could have used.