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Some great webmaster forums that you should join

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I’ve been keeping my eye out for great web, technology and webmaster discussion forums. I’ve been a member of some of these forums for quite a while but I’m discovering new forums regularly.


If you want to keep track of the latest tech news and search engine optimization techniques it’s a great idea to join webmaster related forums. Even if you are still rather new to owning a website or blogging. The more you learn, and the more that you can do on your own the better.

Posting and interacting on webmaster related forums is also a great way to meet others that share your interests and possibly gain links to sites that are similar to your own.

I found a post over on WebGeek that lists a number of top webmaster forums and communities. The numbers listed beside each forum listing is the number of registered members on the site as of the time of writing.

I was aware of, and a member of many of these forums and communities already, but there are a few that he’s listed that I must go and explore.




Page rank update or just backlink update?

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It seems that Google’s been busy doing something this month. A number of people on one of the forums that I hang out in have said that their sites suddenly dropped in PR. In some cases they went right down to PR0.

What’s going on?

It seems that not enough people are seeing changes in their site rank for this to be called an early page rank update. The consensus seems to be that Google is updating backlinks. Backlinks are links to your site from other sites. Apparently Google does mini updates of these frequently, but when they do a large back link update they are likely removing duplicates and or spam or splog site links. Perhaps that’s why some people’s PR ended up going down. it’s possible that they had a lot of splogs or spammy sites linking to them.

It’s hard to say what’s going on because Google doesn’t announce it’s updates, and tends to keep it’s formula’s for determining page rank and other things related to a sites listing in their search engine secret.

Aligning image and video code in blog posts

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Earlier in the month I did a series of posts about preparing and adding images to your blog posts. I think the only thing that I failed to discuss in much depth was the tags that you can put around your image or even embedded video code.

WordPress has to modes – Visual (Rich text) and Code (plain text). You can add images to your posts while in either mode. However, you should only add embedded video code or even javascript code (say for a blogroll) while in code or plain text mode as it messes up the code when in rich text mode.

For the purpose of this discussion I’m going to discuss the coding that you can added around embedded images, video and other code while in plain text mode. I will just say that it’s easy to center or move an image to the left or right while in visual or rich text mode simply by clicking on the alignment icons near the top of your wordpress post writing area.

To center an image in your post you can use this code (removes spaces):

< p align=”center” > image code < /p>

and to have a photo to the left or right of a paragraph have the paragraph tags around the particular paragraph that you’re sticking the image in:

ie < p >text of paragraph < /p>

with your image code beside the first paragraph tag

< p > < image code > text < /p>

Unfortunately you need to do a little bit more to the image code to make the text of the post wrap around the image. With the code that I’ve listed above the image will still be higher than the text. However, if you want to have the text wrap to the right or left of the image simple include:

align=”left” or “right” near the img tag like this:

< p > < img align=”left” rest of image code ….> < /p>

radia_phone.jpg To illustrate the full code, in order to place this thumbnail image to right of this text, and have the text wrap evenly around it I had to use the following code. Remember, you must remove the spaces for this code to work on your site. I’ve only put spaces between the code here so that I could actually demonstrate the code:

< p > < img align=”right” src=’https://thewebfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/radia_phone.thumbnail.jpg’ alt=’radia_phone.jpg’ / > < /p>

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