Social Media 101
One thing that really gets me going in the morning is the potential of web 2.0 and social networking to harness community not only on the web, but offline as well. Social networking, or what we in the...
How to Stay Safe from Duplicate Content by Using .htaccess and 301 Redirects
It's not uncommon for a site to have mutiple domains and sub-domains pointing to the same content. For example, you can get to this site using sitening.com or www.sitening.com. But for...
How to Easily Manage Multiple WordPress Sites With One Database and One Code Base
Updated with security fixes We create a lot of websites at Sitening. Although most of our clients use our yet-to-be-released custom content management system (CMS), most of the micro-sites and...
Example of Good Link Bait
I just found this linkbait mentioned in my RSS reader. It's a site called How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor?. To search marketers, this is an obvious attempt at...
How To Protect Your Lunch
This sandwich looks pretty disgusting doesn't it? Who in there right mind would eat a sandwich with blotches of green mold? Not me, for sure.But alas, this is just a visual trick. I'm not sure how...
Protecting Yourself From FTDs
You feel safe here right? Like this is a nice, happy place where you can come and not have to worry about being judged for who you are. I want to make sure that you do feel safe here before we...
How To Protect Your Privacy On Facebook (Screencast)
If you're like me, you've been experiencing an influx of new friend requests on Facebook. Some of them are old friends from school or from places you used to live, while others are from people you...
Do You Have An Online Strategy? Rex Hammock Does
I can't tell you how many times I've struggled to get clients to agree to put a simple blog on their company website. The idea of semi-casual publishing on a corporate website, even for small...
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Presentation on SEO & Search Marketing
I want to thank Corey Cleek of Uloop and Erick Goss for inviting me to present on SEO & Search Marketing to their Internet Marketing class at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. I...
EDU Links! EDU Links! Get Your Red Hot EDU Links!
There's a belief among many search engine optimizers that links from college websites (aka EDU links) carry more link juice than typical COM, NET and ORG TLD links. Because of that belief, many SEO...
WordPress Security Vulnerabilities
A few weeks ago, we noticed that someone had managed to insert a bunch of spam links into our WordPress header and footer. We quickly updated to the latest version (2.3.3 at the time), thinking it...
How to Grab a Screenshot of an Entire Web Page
Web designers and marketers often need full-size screenshots for before-and-after shots and also for portfolio pieces. Fortunately, there's many ways to create website screenshots. However, among...
How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!
Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don't know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set...
How to View the Generated HTML Output from JavaScript Web Widgets
One of the best things to come from social networking and the so called Web 2.0 is the Web widget. Web widgets allow users to easily drop JavaScript code into their own website and instantly add...
How to Make Files Publicly Accessible on Amazon S3
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows webmasters to store and deliver files cheaply and quickly. S3 is perfect for hosting large images, documents, audio files (MP3s) and video files. An...
