Google Panda 3.3

Google released Panda 3.3 update in February. Though 40 updates were done, we haven’t seen any change in ranks for the website we do SEO for. What stands out the most to me is: Link evaluation. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page. We have…

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Google says SEO is not SPAM

Well, it’s official. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web spam team, says that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is not spam. This is not a big surprise to many of use that have been in the industry a lot time, but it helps justify what we do to clients who are not really sure if…

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WP-Admin goes blank

This can be a serious problem and mean one of your plugins has caused a lot of problems with your site. It is a scary experience when you cannot log in to your own site. That being said, try this first. Look at your functions.php file and find any empty spaces at the top or…

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Disable WordPress Auto Formatting

Sometimes WordPress can be extremely annoying with the Auto Formatting. Often it will add a or a where you don’t want one and it will totally mess up the look of your page. Do how do we fix this? There are a couple of options. 1. You can get a plug-in to disable the auto…

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New Site launched

This is the newest version of NetViper Interactive.com. We have removed the Powerpoint services and LeadViper Craigslist program. We will launch a new site for that program on its own. Please send us your feedback for the new site design.

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Removing “Allowed Tags” on the comment form.

This solution is from the wordpress forums from Emsi.  It is not guaranteed to work on all themes, but it did work fine for me on my theme based on twenty ten. Follows these steps: 1. back up your functions.php file. 2. Add the following to your functions.php file function my_comment_form_args($user_identity, $post_id, $req) { $args…

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How to remove the website field from the comment form

I had a customer request to remove the website field in the comments.  You would think this would be a relatively simple thing to do, but not so.  After an hour of searching, I found a solution that worked great.  Here is the link. http://techhacking.com/2011/02/04/wordpress-how-to-remove-the-website-field-from-the-comment-form/

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Google Website Optimizer and WordPress

Today I started a test using Google Website Optimizer on WordPress. The manual way of doing this would mean you would need to create 3 different headers and input the correct tracking code in each. While it is not a ton of work, it is a pain in the butt. The better way to do…

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Styling your drop down text

With the basic wordpress install, you are able to nicely style the menu colors etc, but I have run into a problem several times where I use the same color to highlight which page I am on as the color of the background of my dropdown. So if I had a blue nav bar, my…

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