Increase your visitors with 5 free services

Friday, July 11th, 2008

You need to take advantage of the many free services to help get your blog started.

Caveat: The center of your hub should always a WordPress blog or a squeeze page on a domain that you control and own in my opinion.

Now that we have gotten rid of the caveat, lets look at some of the [...]

SEO Plugins - Which ones should I use?

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Today’s question:

what plugins, specially SEO does one really need and how to configure them

First one of the things to understand is that WordPress is a fluid environment. New plugins come - plugins disappear. WordPress itself goes through a major change every 3 - 6 months as they constantly improve things. So the list today could [...]

WordPress Tag-alicious

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Special guest post from Alex Syseof
Tags in WordPress play a huge role in great many aspects and directly influence your blog performance in such important areas as: Search Engine Optimization, Social Networks relevance and Reader Engagement.
And yet, many fail to realize full potential of WordPress tags and their proper implementation. In this article I would [...]

XML Sitemap question

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Today’s question:

If XML-Sitemap gets corrupted, can we delete it altogether (thru cpanel or FTP) and recreate a fresh one without creating any problems? Thanks

Now I have to make an assumption here and we all know what that ass/u/me word does. If you are using the plugin for WordPress here is what you can do with [...]

Titles, headlines and more - Oh My!

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Today’s question:

Mike we all know that the headline or title of your post is crucial component for attracting visitors to your site. If I was posting a ‘How to’ post like: How to get bigger biceps, would I want to include one of my top keywords in the title ie: Body Building - How to [...]

 
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Current plugins I like

Monday, April 28th, 2008

With all the changes in WordPress in the last few months the plugins I am using have been changing too. I get quite a few questions so here is a list of the plugins I am currently using for SEO and why.
The biggest change when version 2.3 came in was swapping out SEO Title Tag [...]

 
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White Hat - -Black Hat is it ethical or not

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Neat philosophical discussion that Dr. Mani started o his blog titled “Is Search Engine Optimization ETHICAL ?”
He covers whether it is ethical to use black hat techniques and it is a really interesting discussion.
Check out the dilemna he creates. You might feel strongly one way ot the other but how much does intent play into [...]