The 404 – File Not Found error. Its the darkest corner of your website that you probably don’t encounter too often, but do you know how often others are getting them on your site? Odds are, you don’t. One way to increase visitors (and more importantly keep visitors) is to avoid the 404 error, or embrace it by planning for it. Part of development is to always test the ‘negative case’. The case in which you know your code will fail. The same holds true in URLS. What happens if someone goes to a page or URL that doesn’t exist on your site? Go ahead, try it…I’ll wait. – There, that wasn’t so hard was it? What did you find? For most of you using WordPress, it’ll be a standard 404 page that your theme is using. Not too bad, but how many people are actually seeing this, usually content-less, page? Let’s find out.
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I have a confession to make, I’m a Google Chrome addict. *Phew* Ok, that wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Ever since Google Chrome moved out of beta for the Mac, I’ve given it a fair shot as my primary browser. The change from Firefox to Chrome wasn’t easy to start, but I slowly found Chrome to be must faster and more stable. The one thing I was missing…were my Extensions. Well, now that Chrome is out of beta, Google has enabled extensions for the Mac version. If you are a blogger there are plenty of great plugins to help your writing and moderating, but here are a few that I’m finding helpful.
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The most commonly misused part of any blogging platform is by far the categories features. I’m sure you’ve seen it before, the post that is “Filed In: Updates, LOLCATS, Funny, Images, Pictures, and blah blah blah”. Misused categories can lead to ugly meta data, poor navigation, and even worse SEO. At this point you might be asking yourself, “So why did he mention these ‘tags’ things?” Well, I’m glad you asked.
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