News about Building Findable Websites
Now that it is official and I have made my first post, I can tell you all about something really cool that I have been asked to do.
I have been asked by Aarron Walter, the author of Building Findable Websites and a great teacher, to be an officer / discussion group moderator for the Building […]
The next 5 things to Help your Findability / SEO
A follow up from the last post about Findability / SEO and your WordPRess blog.
1) Add the title tag to all the links on the page.
The reason for this is to add more information for the search engine spiders to find and read. When you do this it will add more keywords and information about […]
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 or […]
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 code on […]
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 having to […]
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 that […]
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 white […]
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 […]
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 to […]
Virtual Blogging Conference
I found a virtual conference today at Blogging Conference.
The definition they give for themselves is a good summation of why they are doing this and what they want you to get out of it.
BlogOnExpo is a free digital conference covering the topic of blogging. For many bloggers, attending a real world conference can […]
