Website Ranking Checker Tool...

I’ve been using a cool new tool that tracks your site’s search engine ranking. It’s called authoritylabs.com. After a few weeks of using it, I’m pretty happy with it. The main difference I see with it over other similar tracking tools, is that it signals which rankings are local map listings. This is a necessity with local search tracking. Anyway, take a look. You may like it too. Update: Authoritylabs.com...

StudioPress, CopyBlogger, Scribe SEO, Oh My!...

I may be going out on a limb here, but it appears to me that either, A) Brian Gardner and Brian Clark may have teamed up to make one heck of a strong company, or B) Brian Clark and some investors now own StudioPress and some other great services/sites. Whichever is the case, congrats to Copyblogger Media LLC, as they now own StudioPress, CopyBlogger, and Scribe SEO (and some other services/sites). From all indications,...

Remove Unnecessary Code From WordPress Header...

WordPress uses the function wp_head() to add a bunch of code to the header of each page. Some of it is not absolutely necessary. This is especially true when using WordPress as a small business CMS, instead of a blog. The code below removes the unnecessary code. Just add these to the end of your functions.php file. This code applies to WordPress 3.0 and higher: <?php remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link'); remove_action('wp_head',...

CSS to Force a Scrollbar to Appear in IE8 and FF...

Websites sometimes appear “shift” side-to-side a bit when you go from one page to another within the same website. This is usually caused by going from a page with a scrollbar to a page without a scrollbar, and vice-versa. The scrollbar appearing and disappearing causes the page width to be slightly different, thus the shifting appearance. This is usually seen in FireFox and IE8 browsers, due to how they render...

How to Embed and Display YouTube Videos on a Secur...

EDIT 08/03/2010: A reader just pointed out that the method outlined in this post will present a warning in in the status bar when using the latest version of FireFox. No popups or dialog messages though – that’s good. And it still works flawlessly in IE and Chrome. Thanks to Jayapal for pointing the warning in FF. Here is a cool trick to get rid of ssl security warning errors when embedding youtube videos...

Editing DNS Records for Google Apps (DNS Settings)...

Get the domain verification CNAME from inside Google Apps. Add the verification CNAME to DNS records.