Away from your home computer? Sudden brainwave for a blog post, but nothing to save your ideas on? Then rush to the nearest cybercafe/work computer, because you can remotely upload files and notes to your server with these two incredibly useful tool

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If .htaccess gives you a headache each time you think of it, or if you don't know what is .htaccess, now it's time to find out that Wordpress bloggers can redirect their pages in a more elegant and easy to use way, with this plugin. The post conta

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The .htaccess file can be one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of a blogger. The .htaccess file makes setting up redirects a matter of seconds. It’s especially beneficial for cloaking affiliate URLs.

It’s really amazing that a large percentage of bloggers don’t use the .htaccess for redirects. They manually setup folders and index

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There comes a time in some blogs when you have to change your permalinks. This is often because of a lack of planning at the start of the blog, a change in focus or a change of blog software.

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Search engine optimization and it’s application is just as much an art as much as a science. The scientific aspects are things like meta tags, h1-h6, the meta description, internal links, .htaccess files, robots.txt files, keyword density and the like. The artistic side of SEO (in my opinion) is the method in which one applies the tactics in

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how to stop blogger and other type blogs from hotlinking your images by editing your htaccess file to point to a different image instead.

It works! see the comment from the content thief below the post.

Implement it on your site today with some simple code added to your htaccess file, it takes just a few seconds and it will discourage

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Google themselves state that you need to select a preferred domain. This article provides sources to outline the differences in going No-WWW or Yes-WWW. It then outlines how to set up a .htaccess file for either set up. This concept is important because Google treats the two domains differently (www.site.com vs site.com) It is important to yo

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When you spend most of your day to designing and coding, you don't have a lot of extra time to mess with server configuration. But neglecting this aspect of web design can cost you big time in the end. Your server shouldn't be bending you to its will—it should be the other way around. .htaccess is the key. You probably

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This list is short and straight to the point about optimizing Wordpress, with easy to use plugins and tips. It involves some of the basis advice for speeding your blog, to some of the more advanced tips and tweaks for making your website Digg, Reddit, Stumble proof. This guide does not involve editing of a php.ini file or an ht

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Have you ever caught someone hot-linking an image on your site? If you don’t know what hot-linking is: (from Wiki):
Hot-linking is when someone uses a link to an image that is saved on another website instead of saving a copy of the image on the website that the picture will be shown on.

Why hot-linking is bad? Because when

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If you have been following my blog, I made a post about how to prevent someone from hot-linking your blog/site images manually by using a file called [dot]htaccess. Although the solution is good, it may scare people who are not so tech-savvy and prefer not to meddle around with codes.

Well if you are under a hosting plan and

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This is part 2 of my SEO series where I explain why and how to have only one website URL pointing a domain and only one website URL pointing to each page.

I included .htaccess code that will handle the internal redirections as well as a PHP script for those who can't use .htaccess (no server support for it). This won't han

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