How to Display Featured Post with Thumbnails Without Plugin

Object:
1. Display featured post with thumbnail.
2. Title will be placed below the thumbnail.
3. Featured posts will be randomly selected and must show default thumbnail if no thumbnail is defined for the post.
4. All selected posts must appear together, no slider to navigate.
5. It must not use any script(Not good for SEO) or plugin.

Site Traffic Increases After Google Panda Update

To reduce the search engine rankings of low-quality sites, Google announced a new update ‘Panda‘ on Feb 24, 2011 in Google US. The change impacts approx 12% of search queries. It is rolled out globally on April 14, 2011 to all English-language Google users.

‘Tweets By Post’ WordPress Plugin (Part-1 Installation)

‘Tweets By Post’ WordPress Plugin adds post wise tweets at the end of your post. It handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing post by post. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control number of tweets. you can set default twitter settings or tweets criteria(very helpful for existing posts) and update it post by post.

TechBrij Got Google SiteLinks on Search Results

Today, I’m happy to announce that TechBrij.com has got sitelinks in Google Search Page. It’s a major achievement in my blogging field. Google sitelinks are links which are automatically picked by Google algorithm from a blog to help users navigate through a site and provides a shortcut to the information that people search for most often. It’s special because not all sites get sitelinks in Google search page.