Five Reasons Why WordPress is The Best Open-Source CMS
Posted on February 6, 2012
There are many contenders on the content management system battlefield. Drupal and Joomla, for example, constantly struggle with one another. Advocates of one vehemently defend it as the best open-source CMS. Meanwhile, WordPress has taken over a significant share of the open-source CMS marketplace.
There are good reasons for it, too. Here are five reasons why WordPress may well be the best open-source CMS option out there today:
- WordPress is easy to use. Even if you don’t know much about CMS systems and even if you don’t have access to
What is Google’s “Search Plus Your World”?
Posted on March 6, 2012
For a long time, optimizing a website for search engines has been about making content and design choices that please the search engines, are likely to garner incoming links, and are ultimately useful to the reader. It’s that last point – usability – that Google has harped on for years, and that they keep getting better and better at identifying.
One of the ways Google is trying to gauge utility today has to do with social linking. In particular, the most recent Google search algorithm update hones in on one specific aspect of social linking: the Google Plus button.
Search Plus Your World
That update is being referred to the “Google Search Plus Your World” update. This is the next logical step (for Google, anyways) in helping to identify what exactly is both relevant and useful in returning search results.
The basic ideas behind Google’s Search Plus Your World is this:
- When you do a web search, you’re likely to want to see results that