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Archive for September, 2009
HOWTO optimize your blog on WordPress?
Monday, September 28th, 2009WordPress is a blog publishing application and content management system. Many Internet surfers have their own blogs and some of you have the WordPress blog, because it is easy to manage, add content and edit its appearance by setting up the themes from the network or create the own one. So we all know what WordPress is, but how to make a blog more search engine-friendly? This is what my today’s blogpost about.
First thing you might need to do is to change the permlinks through your blog to the one where the post name is present in blogpost URL, e.g /postname/ or /category/postname/. In this case you will get more visitors because post’s keywords are present in the link.
Also, change the titles to match the previous thought – to have keywords in Title. To do this, adjust the titles to the one where the post name or category name or even tag is displayed, e.g post title – blog title, tag – archives page – blog title, blog archives page – blog title.
Description meta tag as for any other html page should be added to every post page, it is suitable when a description is not the automatic words list, but human-written phrase understandable for Internet surfers.
All these above can be made using such WordPress plug in as All in One SEO Pack. Another important role in SEO is image optimization – adding title and alt tags, ensured by SEO Friendly Images plug in.
All the plugins above can improve your WordPress blog visibility in search engines; should you strive for more, please visit the page with other SEO plugins – WordPress SEO plugins. But if you are waiting for incredible results right upon optimization, you shouldn’t. You will need to engage with some other blogs, micro-blogs and social networks to get important visitors on your blog. So, good luck)
Got questions about WordPress optimization? Contact me – Yuliya Leonova
How to choose the right CMS
Monday, September 21st, 2009I’ve just come over a good small article by Adam Torren dedicated to choosing a right CMS for your web site. We at Cogniance often integrate CMS into solutions we build for our clients, and we think that advices by Adam make sense. Here’s specific products he suggests:
Joomla is a highly flexible CMS that allows you to create numerous modules and components within a fresh and progressive framework. The latest version, 1.5, marks a considerable improvement. Note, though, that while you may be able to install this CMS in less than 30 minutes, it takes a while to get the hang of.
Mambo, much like Joomla, is quite powerful and is simple to use. Its control panel is more user-friendly, though, and the system is backed up by a growing community of forum support.
Drupal is considered one of the top open-source CMS systems available, especially as far as its architecture is concerned. This system is best suited for developers though, so non-techies should tread carefully. Some users find Drupal more functional than Joomla or even WordPress, but if you’re inexperienced, you may be better off sticking to the others.
Wordpress has long been known as the blogger’s platform and it’s at the top of its game. It is very simple to use, but and may not be the best platform if you require considerable e-commerce functionality.
Written by: Sergii Gorpynich
Main Google search operators, what do you think?
Monday, September 21st, 2009Google as the world’s popular search engine has many featured search options. For example, you may find weather forecast (using phrase weather: before mentioning your location) or calculate the mathematical phrase by writing it in Google search field.
But for sites owners the interest is in featured search, to get more information about the site position, site backlinks or when and what version of site Google has cached. So lets go)
First option is info:yoursite.com – it offers you a general information on the website (e.g. info:cogniance.com). It will present information about entered web page. On the opened page you also see several other link:
- cache:yoursite.com (e.g. cache:cogniance.com) displays cached web page, instead of the current page version. On the cached version of a page, Google will highlight terms in your query that appear after the cache: search operator (e.g. cache:cogniance.com software)
- related:yoursite.com (e.g. related:cogniance.com) lists web pages that are similar to the web page you entered.
- link:yoursite.com (e.g. link:cogniance.com) shows pages that are linked to that questioned site. Also you will find backlinks on your site. To exclude a certain website from search query type -site:site.com (e.g. link:cogniance.com -site:cogniance.com)
- site:yoursite.com (e.g. site:cogniance.com) restricts your search results to the site or domain you specify.The same option as to the previous one – you can include or remove the site from where the link would go to your site (e.g. - site:google.com).
allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl: show the search results with specified phrase in text/title/URL/subject. For example,
Tag define, another operator, is also very useful for definitions search; you can specify any word or phrase and the definition for it will be found in Google. For example, define:software
The main and mostly used search operators are mentioned above. What other do you know which you think would be useful for site owners?
Written by Yuliya Leonova
Tornado framework – WOW news for Python developers?
Friday, September 11th, 2009So quite a WoW news in server-side technology world (at least Python part of it) has happened. As reported by CrunchBase and other sources, Facebook open sources FriendFeed’s real-time tech as a Tornado framework. Dave Recordon, of Facebook, explains it as:
a relatively simple, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python, designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services. Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed’s real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain. While Tornado is similar to existing Web-frameworks in Python (Django, Google’s webapp, web.py), it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic.
Let’s see how quickly and broadly web community embraces this new technology…
We have released a portal for space offer!
Friday, September 11th, 2009Cogniance as a full service software consultancy has created a site for Silicon Valley Pad, which provides offices and meeting rooms for the ones who have ideas but do not have own space, all the places from SVP have everything you need to start your business, like Cogniance have everything you need to start your web portal.
So what is your opinion of the site? Please, leave your comment below.
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Music 2.0. Cogniance’s got talent!
Friday, September 4th, 2009Cogniance, apart from its daily web 2.0 activities and simply being a fun place to work, has another, much more exciting side – actually, its people, who are good not only at writing clean codes, but indulging themselves into more sophisticated spheres like poetry and music.
Our Front-End Architect Vladimir Agafonkin is a shy person and doesn’t talk much of his musical talents. Rare mentioning about long hours of rehearsals and photos in photoblog “in the process” made a release of the debut album of his band Obiymy Doshchu even a more unexpected event.
The “Elehia”, essence of melancholy and autumnally lyrical rock, finally was announced in official studio release on August 29, 2009. It is now available for download from the band’s official website.
From the very beginning and until the last note the “Elehia” is an intimate story of feelings arising in the sounds of the autumn rain and dissolving in a bitterly cold loneliness… and worth lingering to find a hope for revival.
Album presentation in Kyiv is planned for the end of September and will be announced later on in the band’s news.
There are two more musicians at Cogniance that we expect go public soon. They are Max Stukalenko, System Administrator at Cogniance plays bas guitar in “Avariyne Nebo”, and Tim Baga, Senior Software Engineer is a front-man of “Untitled” hard-rock band.