Email Filtering + Business Email Management

A new WordPress plugin (called the ‘SEO Alt Tag Optimizer‘) has been developed that allows a website owner to make full use of the Image Alt tags to assist in improving your search engine rankings through the effective utilisation of established and proven search engine optimization techniques.

What this plugin does, is that is creates 3 images on every page of your WordPress site, and populated these images ALT tags with different combinations of the following blog strings:

• Wordpress Site’s Name
• Wordpress Site’s Description
• Wordpress Page’s Title (if you are on homepage, category page or archives page)
• WordPress Post’s Title (if you are on a single post page)

The uniqueness and second benefit of this plugin is that the 3 images are also used to allow your web site visitors to increase the font size, decrease the font size or to return the font size back to the default size. This assists any visitor with any accessibility difficulties to read your web site without having to change their own browser’s viewing settings.

This plugin helps to increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score by up to 5%, but it is also a fully working font re-sizer tool.

You can read more background on this plugin here: SEO Alt Tag Optimizer & Font Resizer Tool (WordPress plugin)

WordPress has just be updated to version 2.0.6. I updated my blog site using the excellent script from markjaquith.wordpress.com.

Mark’s zip file only contains the core WordPress files that have been updated, and installation is a breeze – a lot more easier that WordPress’s own upgrade instructions!!! It’s well worth a look and will save plenty of backup and upgrade administration time.

All my plugins appear to be working as expected – but it is early days.

My blog is hosted on Apache with mod_php so I also used Mark’s Feedburner fix to correct this issue.

If you have a web site and a blog site, chances are you have two seperate Google sitemaps that list the URLs within each site. I use WordPress for my blog and PHP for my web site.

This means that I have to maintain two Google sitemaps and there is no easy way (i.e. a tool) to generate a proper sitemap for all the pages within my sites. I use the Google Sitemaps plugin for WordPress, but use another sitemap generator for my website.

If you do have two Google sitemaps, then I have enhanced a PHP script to read these two Google sitemaps, extract the URLs and to append them into Yahoo and MSN (Live Spaces) sitemaps. Both these files are identical except in name only (yahoo.txt and urllist.txt).

This helps both Yahoo and MSN find their respective sitemaps more easily and aids SEO as they can find your page URLs more easily. This approach also allows for any future changes in the specifications of Yahoo and MSN sitemaps to be easily accomodated.

You are free to download, review and use this PHP script as you so desire.

Download the Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool

The download includes a readme.txt file for instructions on how to use the script.

For more info on future releases, please go to my static page:

Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool Page

If you are happy with this script, please leave a trackback or comment on this post.

The new Dicontas blog site uses WordPress 2.0.4, which is a fantasic blog tool. No problems setting up and with a vast array of free wordpress plugins to do all the jobs you need. This blog will be used to centralise news and issues surrounding email monitoring, email filtering and general email administration within the business environment.

There are also some wordpress plugins and PHP scripts that are available from this site. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is also discussed together with some useful links to other excellent blog sites.