First 5 things to help your Findability / SEO
I was asked to look at a site and let them know what 5 things they could do to their site to increase its Findability / SEO. That got me thinking that a lot of people do not know the first five basic things to do. We talk a lot about the next five things [...]
When to hire someone to help you with your WordPress blog
Let’s face it. WordPress is really easy to use. They have a quick install guide from WordPress.org and many hosting companies include a one click install option. Then all you have to do is pick a template, and you are off and running. Once you have it up and going, then most of the upgrades [...]
Search on your Blog Part 3
For the third and final part of the articles on searching and your WordPress blog. I came across this post Have you SEO’ed your search feature? on Marketing Hub. A lot of good information about rewriting the code on your search. They have written a great post that talks about ways to improve the default [...]
Search on your Blog Part 2
Part two of the three part series on Search and your WordPress blog. This time I want to talk to you about a great little plugin on Addicted to New blog called the WordPress live search plugin. This plugin does all of its work by letting your readers do a search on your blog without [...]
Search on your Blog Part 1
Lets talk about search and the search function on your WordPress blog. Almost all themes you can use will have a search function built in, and it will work well for you 99% of the time. I was having problems getting the results I thought I should have from the searches that I conducted. With [...]
WordPress SEO Tips from Matt Cutts
I was looking through some old notes and found one about WordCamp 2007. WordCamp is a two day conference held in San Fransico thrown by WordPress. To be fair, they are not the only Wordcamp, but they are the original and the biggest. So my notes talked about a session given by Matt Cutts about [...]
Fun with 301 Redirect and Permalinks
In my post on Permalinks I made the following statement: As the article above says, please be careful to remember that if you change the permalink structure on your blog in WordPress it will change all the links that you have already published, and that could screw you up if you or someone else has [...]
PlugIns 101
A lot of the tips I pass on to you all involve the installing and using of plugins. Plugins are part of what makes WordPress such a great platform to blog on. They not only help you with SEO / Findability, but also almost anything you could think of. With that in mind, I thought [...]
A WordPress Read Contact Form
I could hand write the HTML / PHP to make the form work and come up with a safety to keep spam out of it, but this is WordPress and we have a community of developers that have written some great plug-ins.
…If it does not look the way you want with yours, you can fix it by hand or there is a list of styles that come with it for a whole lot of popular WordPress themes.
Permalinks 101
Came across this post on Weblog Tool Collection about permalinks. I cannot tell you how many WordPress blogs I come across that do not have a well thought out permalink structure. This is not only really bad Findability and SEO, but it is just plain confusing to the people that read your blog and subscribe [...]
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