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New Job Title: Andy Killen is CTO of SpeckyBoy design Magazine

andyk — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:33:36 +0000

Today the 23rd of February 2011, Andy Killen the Owner of Phat Reaction was also appointed as CTO of SpeckyBoy Design Magazine. SpeckyBoy has around 2million visits per month and around 40,000 active regular readers, and currently ranks 2900 on Alexa.

It is Andy’s tasks to make the website significantly faster and exploit more features of wordpress and social networking to raise the profile of Speckyboy and thus the SEO, PageRank and Alexa rank.

Quoting Andy: “I’m really very happy with this opportunity to make an already successful website in the way of content more successful in the way of technology. I will be pushing to put SpeckyBoy in to the top 250 websites of the world”

We should be going live with the new version of the SpeckyBoy theme this weekend, so do watch for the first round of speed changes.

Share and Follow is the #1 social networking plugin for WordPress.

andyk — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:04:41 +0000

Well it’s been a busy time since April and the release of Share and Follow, a very busy time indeed. And in that time since April 2010 we’ve moved from ZERO downloads to over 150,000 and become the most popular wordpress plugin for social networking. cool!

People love how easy it is to setup and use, along with how it helps them to get what they want done. Along with the fact that I am willing to support people in their plight to get it all working even on the strangest of configured sites.

Back at the beginning of November we released the CDN version with now 26 different icon sets to choose from.

This has proved to be very popular and selling many copies every day. It’s such a pleasure to come to work in the morning and find out that we have made money over night

However it is onwards and upwards for the plugin by being ported to Drupal and Joomla!.

Should that really be linked to on every page?

Andrew Killen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:51:38 +0000

While reading through page rank explained by Ian Rogers, it became clear to me that there are many occasions on a site where links are contesting with each other to become highest.

For example, the footer and the header tend to have more or less the same links in them on every page. Lets just suggest that those were, Jobs, About, logo with link to homepage, Breadcrumb, Privacy statment, contact, sitemap and accessibility information.

For me looking at this list, there are a bunch of links there that really very rarely get accessed. These would be items like Privacy Statment, About, Jobs and Accessibility information. Why not reduce the number of links here, by just having the about link on the page, and the other links located on the about page.

Ok maybe if your company gets lots of people looking looking for jobs… then it would be wise to have another domain such as http://jobs.myCompany.com, get it into webmaster tools from google and let it do the rest.

The main thing being here that you will have reduced contention against your primary pages by a factor of 3 on every page.

Secondly by setting up either the Logo or just the breadcrumb to have the link to the homepage, you will have reduced contention against your catagories.

By choosing to remove the link from the logo, it will mean that accross the site with a common menu that they homepage will not have as many links as the catagories. As on the homepage the breadcrumb is not clickable.