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Ping.FM Twitter Not Posting
If you use Ping.fm to post your updates to Twitter you may have noticed that your Twitter account isn’t being updated.
The reason for this is that, with the much publicized Twitter update, a new authentication method is required to be registered by external posters (e.g. Ping.fm).
To resolve this issue, and make sure that your updates are being posted to Twitter via Ping.fm, merely login to Ping.fm andclick ‘Posting’ in the Dashboard then follow the instructions. Simple!
Is WordPress good for SEO?
Increasingly WordPress is being acknowledged for the great default Search Engine Optimization it provides. In fact, in 2009, Matt Cutts who is a leading SEO expert and works for Google stated ‘WordPress takes care of 80-90% of (the mechanics of) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)’ ( see a copy of his slides from WordCamp San Francisco 2009 ).
WordPress built-in SEO
WordPress by default includes great SEO such as ‘Pretty Permalinks’, Tags and standards based coding and scripting. As noted by WordPress.org:
WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database.
WordPress comes with several built in search optimization tools, including the ability to use .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks, blogrolling, and pinging. There are also a number of third party plugins and hacks which can be used for search engine optimization (SEO).
Even more SEO for WordPress
There are also very many SEO Plugins available that help improve the SEO capabilities of WordPress even further such as Sitemap.xml and header-meta generators.
In response to Is WordPress good for SEO?, the answer is definitely yes, WordPress is very good for SEO!
WordPress is built on Solid Code
The average WordPress user isn’t concerned with the underlying code and scripting or what database is used. The reason that most users don’t need to worry about the underlying architecture is because it is built using best practice technologies which make it resilient and reliable. WordPress is built on three core technologies; PHP, JavaScript and MySQL.
WordPress and PHP
PHP is primarily used for server-side scripting. This makes it ideal for performing actions that don’t require an almost instantaneous response (PHP, as in WordPress, is often used with JavaScript to get the best of both server and client-side scripting). In WordPress, Pages and Posts are generated with PHP as well as MySQL connectivity being handled by PHP. PHP is fast, widely used and simple to implement making it the Web’s most popular server-side scripting language.
WordPress and JavaScript
JavaScript, as its name implies, is a scripting language (it is not the same as the Java programming language). Unlike PHP, JavaScript is usually implemented as a client-side script which means that it loads and runs on the clients’ machine or Internet Browser. It is therefore ideally suited when a very fast response is needed such as for mouse-overs or form validation.
The biggest advantage of JavaScript is its widespread integration and support with Internet Browsers as well as its adaptability (such as the emergence of JSON for data interchange and as part of the Ajax Web programming technique). A shortfall is that JavaScript is relatively insecure (hence it’s often used with PHP which is far more secure). When you see a drop-down menu in WordPress you are seeing the result of JavaScript.
WordPress and MySQL
MySQL is a Relational Database Management System that is versatile, reliable and free to use (it is licensed under the ‘GNU General Public License’). Because of its hugely successful integration with PHP there are numerous MySQL front-end applications such as phpMyAdmin and HeidiSQL that have been developed with PHP.
Who else Uses PHP, JavaScript and MySQL
WordPress is certainly not alone in using this mighty trio. Wikipedia, Facebook, Moodle, Google, Drupal, Flickr, Joomla and millions of other Websites and technologies rely on using these two scripting languages and RDBMS to deliver information and benefits to billions of people each day.
WordPress has solid foundations
The success of WordPress is largely due to the underlying architecture (mostly comprising PHP, JavaScript and MySQL) as well as very good scripting/coding practice. Together with WordPress, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL prove that the best things in life really are free!
What is a Pingback
By default, WordPress, uses Pingback to advise other Blogs that you have linked to their post. The diagram below shows how Pingback works in notifying and confirming of the link.
