Theme Search Engine

The very first thing I would do to look for themes for systems like WordPress is to use Google. However, that would entail me to have to check out each search result to find out if what I need and want is actually there.

The best solution for me is to know a site firsthand that contains resources on what I want. I typically like what Find Themes offers since it specifically focuses on only themes for a variety of systems like WordPress.

Simply put, you could say this is some sort of themes search engine portal. And rather than going to a site with mixed content, I prefer one that focuses on themes only. This way, I do not need manual filtering to having to check out each and every entry I come across with.

The themes found in this portal when you search for them are actually free. Oh yeah, the theme search engine portal is free to use as well. So if you are looking for themes for your WordPress site, head on to Find Themes.

It is a good resource site to start with filled with dozens of WordPress themes for anybody to use in their own site.

Google: Sting Proves Bing Copied Search Results

Google claims that Microsoft’s search engine Bing is copying results from their search engine. Suspicious of their new rival, Google engineers set up random results on their site for a series of unlikely search terms, such as “hiybbprqag.” (Google arranged for the nonsense word to point to a Los Angeles theater seating plan on its search engine).

Within a couple weeks of starting their experiment, the inserted results started appearing in Bing as claimed by Google. They said it welcomed honest competition, but sneered at Bing’s “recycled search results from a competitor.”

Bing did not deny that it took Google into account when producing its own search results, but suggested they were only one factor among many. They also accused Google in turn of a “spy-novelesque stunt” that would only affect very unusual search term.

Each company develops its own search algorithms, and the quality of the results depends on them, making them the key to a search engine’s effectiveness.

Bing gets “a small piece” of the data for its algorithm “from some of our customers, who opt-in to sharing anonymous data as they navigate the web in order to help us improve the experience for all users,” Shum said, saying many internet companies used “collective intelligence” gathered online the same way.

He shrugged off Google’s sting as “a creative tactic by a competitor, and we’ll take it as a back-handed compliment.”

Still, as one commenter said, and this is a good one BING - But It Needs Google .

SEO, The Beginning

After much deliberation, after more than 2 years of trying to ignore my destiny, I finally decided to learn the ropes of SEO. It is a painstaking process that must be maintained as much as possible. Remember, you are not the only one who wants their sites at the top of the search rankings so in a way, sites have to be maintained and as much as possible applied with SEO techniques in order to have your site be consistently at the top of the search rankings.

I never wanted to bother myself with this since my blogs have plugins that can do the SEO themselves. However, since I my friend may ask me to help him with his clients’ sites, I figure I probably have to start learning SEO myself in order for me to learn the ropes and help my friend as well.

For one thing, SEO is not a quick and easy task. There are so many things you need to do and learn so for starters, I would recommend surfing for sites that talks about the basics of SEO. Just the simple ones. As days go by, I will slowly include SEO related blog posts in my blog for others to benefit.