Archive for April, 2008
WordPress Search Engine Optimization Server Side
WordPress is ready and willing to be your partner in search engine optimization. This new series will focus on the best ways to optimize your WordPress installations. It is going to be broken down into 2 parts:
- Server Side WordPress Search Engine Optimization - these articles will deal with the backend, management dashboard, plugins and themes. We will be exploring the proper use of the robots.txt file with WordPress as well as other server-side technology to best optimize your blog and feeds. We will also look at the installation of analytics tracking, setting up specific blog oriented goals and getting your blog ready for submissions and planting.
- Front End WordPress Search Engine Optimization - these articles will deal with how to optimize your content, obtain trackbacks, submit your blog, submit your feed and plant your articles. We will also be looking at the front end of Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Center, Yahoo Site Explorer, FeedBurner and powerful services such as Technorati, Del.iso.us and mag.nol.ia.
How to find the best keywords for your website
Alright, so after sometime doing research on the internet and lurking on some webmaster forums such as DigitalPoint, Webmasterworld,… I now can have some experience with SEO would like to share with everyone. If you like it any find it helpful please feel free to link it, but please leave the link to this site too. Here we go.
The basics: Why is it important to invest some time to find the best keywords?
If you target the wrong keywords, your website promotion efforts will be in vain and you will waste a lot of time and money.
New List of 75 Do-Follow Forums (PageRanks 0-10)
Well, I’ve been feeling very guilty about not writing real posts for the past couple days, so to make up for it, I’ve been since 4:00 A.M. compiling this massive list of 75 forums that allow signature links and have the “nofollow” HTML attribute removed. This means that you can post to these forums with your URL in your signature, which can drastically improve your websites Google PageRank. These forums have PageRanks ranging from 0-10, which can significantly increase the Google PageRank of your site.
If you manage a forum and would like to see your site on this list, please comment on this post.
I would like to give a big thank you to Digital Point Forums, where I discovered many of these links, and Iwebtool and PRchecker, for letting me get the PR of every link.
If you would like to use this list on your site, you are welcome to do so, but please respect the time and effort I put into making this list by remembering to link back to this site.
18 Top Tips For Backlinks - All You Need To Know
18 ways to get links
1. Create them yourself. The strength of this method is that it’s completely under your control. You don’t need to wait for others to create links because you’re building them yourself. You can place links in comments, a forum signature, an email signature, exchange sidebar links with other bloggers, add links to your social media profiles… the list continues. You can create a lot of them in a relatively short period of time.
2. Create a meme. Ever seen those post formulas repeated by several bloggers, who all link to each other? These are usually called blog memes, and they’re quite easy to create. The most basic meme model involves answering a few defined questions and ‘tagging’ a number of other bloggers for whom you think the questions would be relevant. This is done in the hope that they’ll answer the questions on their blog and link back to the originator of the meme. The key to success with this method is that your meme results in a relevant and entertaining post. If so, other bloggers will be happy to participate. Another tip: don’t tag really big bloggers, as they rarely, if ever, participate in memes. Instead, tag bloggers you’re friendly with, and make sure your meme is relevant to the audience of every person you tag.
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Comprehensive SEO Guide to Increase Your SE Ranking
Comprehensive SEO Guide to Increase Your Search Engine Ranking
By: Jason Miller
Things that this article will cover which search engines use to determine your positioning are:
- Domain Maturity
- Anchor Texts
- HTML Attributes
- Site Popularity - Linking Strategies
- Title Tags and Headings
- Lists (Ordered and Unordered)
- Content Formatting (Bolding and Italics)
- Site Layout and Design
- Keywords
- Keyword Density
- Content & Content Placement
- Page Doctypes
- Geo-Targeting
- Meta Data
- Code Bloat Reduction
- XML Site Maps
- Website Log Analyzation
- 404 Error Handling
- Robots.txt
- BlackHat Techniques to Avoid
