Author Archives: Frederick Townes

About Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes is the Chief Technical Officer of Mashable.com, one of the top 3 blogs worldwide. As designer, search / social media marketer and WordPress consultant Frederick’s projects are typically based on WordPress. One of his largest contributions to the WordPress community was his performance plugin W3 Total Cache.

Since 2003 his agency W3 EDGE has assisted startups and brands like: Smashing Magazine, CVS Pharmacy, Hyatt, Kodak, Microsoft, Sanyo, Sherwin Williams, Southwest Airlines, Staples, Sony, R.E.I., Weight Watchers, Yahoo and others.

A serial web entrepreneur, one of Frederick’s latest projects was W3 MARKUP. Quickly rising to the #2 web site production outsourcing services in 2008, W3 MARKUP was so disruptive it was acquired by the market leader after 11 short months.

How To Grow The Engagement On Your Blog

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Frederick Townes | 20 Comments »

This week we decided to dedicate the entire show to helping you bootstrap your blog! Just because something is free doesn’t mean people are going to want it, so we delve into some of the top tactics and tools for … Continue reading →

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A Taste of WPCandy: Your Breaking Community News Source

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 12 Comments »

Ryan Imel, Editor-in-Chief of WP Candy transformed what was once a tutorial site for the past years into a face-paced breaking WordPress news site. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur having created projects like COMMENTbits and others. On the show we … Continue reading →

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Chief Executive Insight with Toni Schneider

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 2 Comments »

Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the team behind WordPress.com, Akismet and many other WordPress related projects. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony … Continue reading →

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First One Blog, Next an Empire

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 4 Comments »

Collis Ta’eed is a veteran blogger and co-founded the Envato network of educational sites and marketplaces covering niches like freelancing and web app’s and much much more. Collis’ network of sites reaches hundreds of thousands of readers monthly, his marketplaces … Continue reading →

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Google + WordPress, The Matt Cutts Point of View

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Frederick Townes | 63 Comments »

Matt Cutts is a Software Engineer who heads the web spam team at Google. Matt has been using WordPress for years and feels WordPress makes search engine optimization easier and easier with each update. On today’s show he highlights the … Continue reading →

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