SEO and The Power of A Backlink

There is a lot of controversial banter about whether or not backlinks are good for seo or not, good for page rank or not. Many so called experts have been wrong and in order to advance your knowledge you need to know exactly what increases your search engine rankings, how to increase them and the best ways.

The bottom line is that with all search engines that actually crawl your website without request (such sites as Google. msn, yahoo) the value of the link is highly correlated with the niche type, if the link back is on the same niche as yours it is seen as a stronger backlink. However, multiple links from one website are valued differently than just one found on the home page. A common misconception is that having site wide links can lower rankings on search engines or hurt PR. The reality is simply that site wide links do not help a website a lot more than just a single link on the main page does. Typically, credit or link juice is received for the first link on the site, but the remainders of the links are not usually used for serp purposes but do give traffic bonuses from visitors of that site and increase PR. This is especially true when the links all have identical anchor texts and surrounding content, this is typical of blogs as …

Review: Blaze Media Pro Software

Blaze media pro software is one of the most powerful conversion software available on the net. You are able to convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV but this is only one feature which is outclassed by the vast amount of other features available within the software. A second feature is the audio conversion which can convert;

CD MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV are available for video. MPEG options are available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD compliant output. All into an audio format, this is perfect if you have a lecture or audio book in a mpeg format when you need it in a mp3 format for your iPod or CD to play throughout the day.

Not only is there a high amount of converting systems but also strong, reliable and easy to use burning features, for example, the CD burning software along with the DVD burning software removes the need to use multiple programmes for each type. Both burning software’s come with a multitude of features that allow you not only to increase the length of video time by changing a few setting but also feature an easy drag and drop style system which makes adding the files you wish to burn even easier.

If …

Changes at Gabfire

Our new theme is finally ready, but this time the skin is not the only thing that is changed. We have also decided to change the concept of Gabfire. As of now, the majority of our blog posts are WordPress related, but Gabfire was intended to be a technology and webmaster blog where we share web development tutorials, design tips, resources and reviews of gadgets as well as gadget sites, for this reason mywordpressdesign.com has been created.

You might think we are moving into a different niche by going into Wordpress designing but don’t worry we are not stopping this site, we are devoted to WordPress and all its features. As a side note to this there is some good news for those of you who are really interested in learning how to develop a WordPress theme, like the ones within this site.

We started a new blog named mywordpressdesign.com this new blog will bring you the latest in all the blog designing advice, tips and hacks on the net, from professional secrets to unknown coding developments.

If you are an aspiring designer or coder and have the basics covered, however, mywordpressdesign.com can teach you the latest in WordPress hacks, tips and tricks that give your themes that distinctive edge peeking visitors interest. By utilising these techniques you can create your own blend of coding which will enable you to …

List Category Posts

You have probably come across a blog whereby related articles and social site submission links are displayed under each post. However, when it comes to a news/magazine style blog, it would be a good idea to display the latest headlines of a chosen category in Post/Page.

Unfortunately this kind of thing can only be achieved by using widgets or editing the template pages. The List category post plugin gives the opportunity to list the latest headlines of a selected category using [catlist=ID], where ID stands for the Category Id.

Guzel Magazine WordPress Theme

Guzel magazine is another free wordpress theme designed by Custom Theme Design team for WordPress community. The theme features 6 latest story of the selected categories along with the Recent posts, comments, popular entries along with the tags. The ajax support used on the featured section gives to a visual appeals and a professional look to it.

Theme contains an installation guide which covers all the steps to set it on your server. Well structured CSS gives ability to easily edit the theme.

Guzel magazine comes with following features

Installation Guide
Ad Optimized Theme
Magazine Style theme - Add your news easily
Guzel Magazine is Highly Customizable
Thumbnail Support for Stories - “Images are resized on the fly, no custom fields”
Video Spot
Ajax Tabs
Dropdown Navigation
2 Sidebars with Widget Support
Valid XHTML Strict code
Valid CSS code
Cross browser compatibility
Gravatar Support
Custom 404 Error Page

Live Demo - Guzel Magazine (3750)

Gabfire Suvi Magazine

The new magazine style theme shows a new, tasty, fresh summer/spring look. Using both summery and cold colours creates a calming whilst authoritative style theme. Gabfire Suvi theme is a 3-column Wordpress theme and contains fully widgetized sidebars. The theme also features Ajax tabs to show, recent comments, popular tags, archives and a chosen video post.

Furthermore the built in flickr support within the footer allows yor flickr pictures to be displayed giving the theme and content a more visually appealing whilst professional look.

Live Demo - Theme details and purchase page

Wordpress Vibrant Theme

Vibrant is the newest Wordpress theme designed by Custom Theme Design team. The theme presents a fresh look and unique design using blue, light green, and silver shades. Wp-Vibrant theme is a 3-column wordpress theme and fully widgetized sidebars. The theme also features ajax tabs to show recent posts, recent comments, and popular tags.

It is very easy to control the amount of recent posts and recent comments displayed by the ajax tabs.
The theme has been coded to allow for advertising positions on top of the sidebar so you can use the ad space for your sponsors easily.

Users will be able to subscribe to your blog easily through the “RSS Subscription” form which features two ways; rss feeds, and email subscription form.

Live Demo - Vibrant Theme (1166)

Corporate Sites Based On WordPress

WordPress has revolutionised the way in which people and businesses get themselves known on the internet. Before the success of blog platforms, such as WordPress, the only real way to present a business was via a website. Websites by definition are static pages by which pages need to be coded and edited by html scripting, this is, as one would assume, a major weakness of the typical and to an extent outdated website.

WordPress now brings a highly customisable aspect to the way in which a corporation can advertise its services and products. For example, WordPress can be highly similar to a website:

You can create static pages, which can be used for sections such as a contact form or request further information, as well as other things such as the company’s privacy policy and testimonials.

And similar to subsections of a website WordPress can create a category with multiple sub categorise attached to it. Each category can either show a static page(s) or recent posts within that area.

One of the most defining features of using WordPress is that posts can be made quickly through the writing section of the admin panel, creating quick pages which are automatically added to the sites database. Counter to simply posting a new headline or product as it is written it is also possible to save the post to be auto posted on a specific day. This …