What is the “duplicate content penalty”?
If you’ve done much research into search engine optimization, you’ve likely heard that you should be wary of duplicate content to avoid a penalty from…
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Should outgoing links open in a new window?
It’s a question we are asked quite a lot, and the answer is… “maybe”. To understand what this question is asking, take a look at…
Come join us to talk about customizing WordPress themes
Tomorrow at 11:30am at our monthly Meetup we’ll be discussing simple ways to customize your WordPress theme. It’s a different approach than the process we…
SEO and single page websites
One of the hotter trends lately are single-page websites; long scrolling pages that put all of the site’s content on a single page. Many of…
The Website SEO Checklist
When taking a look at a new site, we have a variety of things that we look at as we work on creating a plan…
WordPress 4.0 Available for Beta
WordPress is preparing to launch version 4.0 on August 13, 2014. The first beta versions are already available for testing. Despite the major version number, this…
Don’t make them wait
I’ve been playing various versions of the “Madden” football video game since 1992, and it’s been great! In late 2000, Sony released the PlayStation 2…
WordPress Plugins: The Basics of These Powerful Website Add-Ons
There are over 31,635 WordPress plugins in the WP Directory. The GreenMellen team joined up with the All Things WordPress Meet-up and worked up a…
Jetpack 2.8: Introducing Markdown
Jetpack is the Swiss Army Knife of WordPress plugins, and it just added another awesome feature – Markdown. If you want a simple and speedy…
WordPress 3.8.1 has been released
WordPress has just pushed out version 3.8.1, and encourages all users to update their sites to pick up this latest batch of bug fixes. While…
GreenMellen wins two design awards!
We’re proud to announce that GreenMellen recently won two American Graphic Design Awards for our design work! The first award was for our very own…
WordPress 3.8 has been released
As expected, WordPress 3.8 (named “Parker” after jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker) is now available and ready for you to install. You can download a copy…
WordPress 3.8 coming soon
Hot on the heels of WordPress 3.7, WordPress 3.8 is already growing near. It’ll be mostly a cosmetic upgrade, with lots of new styles and…
Google offers more help for hacked sites
We use Google Webmaster Tools with many of our clients, as it offers many resources to help us monitor their sites. Along with SEO-related items…
Don’t stop people from stealing your content
In our daily travels around the web we come across many articles on “how to keep people from stealing your content“. Our opinion? Don’t try…
