Jeff Chappell

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Blog

Jeff Chappell — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:23:20 +0000

It seems my little hobby, a bush-league blog dubbed Barking Book Reviews, is getting some big(ger) league attention. Where will it lead?

In Which An Image Tag Boo Boo Drives More Traffic

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:55:42 +0000

Well not a boo boo as such, but an inadvertent boost to impressions and traffic because I took the time to write image tags for a cartoon bear.

Inadvertent SEO Traffic: Good Practice Drives Extra Impressions

Jeff Chappell — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:47:59 +0000

You never know who is searching for what, or when you can drive extra traffic to your site, just because you took the time to do basic SEO.

Image Tags, Keywords and SEO, II

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:14:52 +0000

I'm still amazed at how much traffic SEO in the form of well-chosen image tags can drive to one's web site, even with a low page rank.

Teaching ESL. Again. And Then This Happened

Jeff Chappell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:23 +0000

Still got the freelance web/writing shingle out -- once a journalist, always, I suppose. But here I am again living abroad teaching ESL.

SEO Plugin Boo-Boo

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:20:51 +0000

A recent version of the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin, 0.4.1, caused some people to have an issue with xml sitemaps. I was one of those peeps. But a little digging fixed it.

Widget Titles, WordPress and Broken Code

Jeff Chappell — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:45:59 +0000

Who would have thought that skipping a widget title in WordPress while inserting Google Adsense Code would break the widget underneath? Certainly not I ...

Image Tags, Keywords and SEO

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:09:31 +0000

Reviewing spam can teach you more than you might think about search engine optimization (SEO) and keywords. And don't forget those image tags; these are important too.

Photoshop, Ubuntu and VirtualBox

Jeff Chappell — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:15:51 +0000

I really like Ubuntu, but I can't do without Photoshop. Rather than use Wine I'm using VirtualBox, which enables one to run Windows 7 -- inside Ubuntu -- and thus Photoshop. Hooray.

Out, Damn’d Quote!

Jeff Chappell — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:41:15 +0000

In which a single, misplaced apostrophe in a PHP file breaks WordPress and results in the dread White Screen of Death. I subsequently murder the King of Scotland.