Five Free Tools to Check if Your Site is Up

Posted by Adam Pieniazek | Blogging Tips | October 26th, 2009

So, you’ve designed and developed a great site that visitors find extremely useful and that search engines love to crawl. You no have no worries, right?

Wrong!

A great site that is search engine friendly and more importantly useful to your visitors serves [...] Continue Reading…

SEO Presentation from City of Boston Marketing Workshops

Posted by Adam Pieniazek | Blogging Tips | October 24th, 2009

So far, the Marketing workshops organized by the BRA and the City of Boston have been a great success. The crowd yesterday was awesome, involved and asked lots of questions. If you were at either of the events this week and [...] Continue Reading…

Justin Wright Survives Self-Employement

Posted by Adam Pieniazek | News | October 22nd, 2009

Member of The 42nd Estate, Justin Wright, today celebrates one year of self-employement. Head over to his blog and join in the celebration. He uses the occasion to drop ten self employment lessons he’s learned over the past twelve months that’ll [...] Continue Reading…

WordPress 2.8.5 Released & Exploit Scanner Recommended

Posted by Adam Pieniazek | Blogging Tips | October 20th, 2009

WordPress 2.8.5 has just been released. The main additions are security tweaks, which makes the update a must download. The updates in this release include:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code [...] Continue Reading…

Spotlight: Essay Coaching

Posted by Adam Pieniazek | Spotlight | October 18th, 2009

Debbie Merion from Essay Coaching was referred to us for help turning her existing Flash-based site into an easy to manage WordPress setup. Moving from Flash to HTML/CSS wrapped in a wordpress installation helped optimize Essay Coaching for search engines and [...] Continue Reading…