WordPress 2.3.2 was released recently. It was released to fix the security problem which can be exploited to  expose draft post in your WP admin panel. So that the 2.3.2 release will not be just a security update, a new error handler was added to make it possible to define a custom DB error page.

Place your custom template at wp-content/db-error.php. If WP has a problem connecting to your database, this page will displayed rather than the default error message. Said the release announcing WP 2.3.2

There is a update link advising WP users to upgraded to the latest version from the control panel, alternatively, you can follow this link to find out more info about the update and an upgrade link.

Some SEO experts believe having hyphen in domain names or URL affects SERPs and ranking for particular keywords positively while
other disagree.
This is to be tested out at UK Webmaster Forum using a small experiment. The experiment is designed as listed below, we should have the result of the experiment by Friday.

Experiment design
* two domains names registered, one with hyphen, one without
* Domain name has not relevance what so ever with the contents of the site
* Domain names hosted on the same IP address, same time
* There will be no outgoing links from the sites
* The page size on both domain will be the same
* Same bolding tags and other formatting in the two sites will be kept the same.
* Avoid putting same contents on both pages to avoid duplicate contents penalty
* The same number of links from the same source will point to both sites

Perhaps a coincidence perhaps new ICANN Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush just want to demonstrate that he has hit the ground running on assuming the Chairmanship of ICANN but many important decision that has been on ICANN back burners seem to have been implemented recently, a good example is the   speeding up of the development of IDN domain name, and a more recent example is the announcement of the appointment of  Iron Mountain Digital as escrow provider to the 900 or so ICANN-accredited domain name registrars. The speeding up of the appointment of the escrow provider is probably not unconnected to the collapse of Register Fly.

According to Iron Mountain Digital, the escrow program will protect registration data for the 90
million domain names supported by the over 900 ICANN- accredited registrars. This agreement solidifies the security and stability of the Internet’s domain name system by safeguarding the data
associated with registered domain names in secure escrow accounts managed by Iron Mountain Digital.

In other words, should a registrar go belly up, the chaos that follows the demise of Registry Fly will be minimised because domain name registration information is help by a third party which is Iron Mountain Digital,

Budding, enthusiast and energetic SEO consultant Mihai Jepan is quite keen on finding the how to write the perfect meta tags so he has created two web pages page 1  and page 2 with with the same contents but slightly different meta description, within the next 24 - 48 hours Mihai will report his finding.

Because the original pages Mihai created are in Romanian, he has translated the pages to English, the English versions also called the same names can be found here:  page 1 and page 2 . One the results of this experiment is know, a more comprehensive post about how to write the perfect SEO friendly title and meta tags for your site will be published.

Fast growing eCommerce shopping cart application Boss Cart released a new Boss Cart shopping cart series today. Boss Cart spokes person said the new Boss Cart called Boss Cart JV series ” It is radically different to the previous versions of Boss Cart” he went on further to say that users of current version of Boss Cart will not be able to upgrade from the old Boss Cart, giving the significant difference between the Boss Cart JV and the Classic Boss Cart eCommerce shopping cart.

When asked why the complete change in the application structure he said “The previous version of Boss Cart contains some serious bugs that we had to hack, but we fell its not feasible to keep patching up Boss Cart hence we have gone back to the drawing board to recode the old Boss Cart from the ground up. We expect the coding to take up to a year, that is why in the mean time we harness the power of Joomla content management system, build on the well know stable eCommerce platform Virtumart to bring you the Boss Cart JV series”

You can find more information about the new Boss Cart at BossCart.com Additonal Boss Cart related links can be found below.

Useful Boss Cart JV links
You can download Boss Cart JV from here
You can post support questions here