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6 SEO Tips for Bloggers You Can Use Today
Tags: SEO advice, WordPress SEO
This is a guest post by Christian from Lingo24.
It can seem as if almost everyone is writing a blog these days. The blogosphere is a crowded place, with millions of them competing for readers on the World Wide Web. Making your blog stand out from the crowd is anything but easy. But a little knowledge of SEO and following a few basic rules will give you a head start.
#1: Find keywords
You can have the best product in the world, but if your customers can’t find your website, you’ll have to sell it to your friends and neighbors. And when it comes to being found online, the golden rule is “choose the right keywords.”
This isn’t as easy as it sounds. All too often, people in a specific industry tend to use jargon instead of the language spoken by ordinary customers. Sit down with a colleague or friend and brainstorm which words you think your readers are searching for.
WordPress Advice of the Month: How to Replace 4 Great Plugins With One That’s Even Better
Tags: WordPress advice, WordPress plugin, WordPress SEO, WordPress tips
As I’m sure you know by now, stumbling upon a quality piece of WordPress advice is neither easy nor happens frequently. Furthermore, actually going out there, surfing the web and actively searching for such advice is not possible either because (usually) we won’t be able to tell it apart when we see it … the “you don’t know what you don’t know” issue.
Hold on, let’s just stop here for a moment. Why am I talking purely about WordPress? Simply because it’s a platform that I’ve always recommended for every online business designer/creator due to its ease of use and highly adjustable nature. And since I’m recommending it that much I feel that good WordPress advice is well worth sharing as it can be highly valuable for everyone out there applying it.
(By the way, check out the previous episodes if you haven’t already: How to Get Rid of Spam Comments Once and For All, Why Free WP Themes are EVIL.)
Now let me just get straight down to business and tell you what the advice is, and why did I even bother to throw out 4 perfectly good plugins and substitute them with this new one.
Who Else Wants to Lose Money by Getting their Robots.txt File Wrong
Tags: AdSense, robots.txt, SEO advice, WordPress SEO
Hey, no joke here. Real story. Story about me, though I’d much rather not be the main character this time.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there are some AdSense ads on this blog. Not that many but still. Now the funny part. For something like a year the ads haven’t been displaying on any of my archive pages or category pages. All because of one small robots.txt mistake.
For those of you who don’t know, robots.txt is a file that sits in the root directory of your blog or website and waits to be viewed by search engine robots/crawlers. Search engines look at this file to determine which areas of a website are available to them and which aren’t.
The common practice is to use this file to prevent them from accessing duplicate content or some admin and private areas of your blog.
(By the way. There’s a big post on creating a WordPress-friendly robots.txt file coming soon.)
41 SEO Terms Explained, an SEO Glossary
Search engine optimization is a really big topic right now for many online business designers. But before you can start working on it you have to understand some basic SEO terms, hence this SEO glossary.
But first, let’s explain one thing. There are hundreds of blogs focusing on different aspects of SEO, so I won’t get into very detail here, but let me just tell you that there are basically two ways of driving traffic (aka customers) to your site (which is the main venue for your online business).
There’s the “free traffic” way, and there’s the “paid traffic” way. Paid traffic deals with all kinds of advertising (PPC, banner ads, media buys, you name it). On the other hand, the most popular approach of getting free traffic is … SEO.
In this post I’m not going to give you any SEO techniques or tricks. I’m just going to explain a number of terms related to SEO, which I hope you’ll find very handy at some times. I think that understanding the language of the SEO community is the first step to learning the actual techniques and tactics.
How to Add “nofollow” to Non-Homepage Blogroll Links – WordPress SEO Tip of the Day
Tags: WordPress, WordPress advice, WordPress plugin, WordPress SEO, WordPress tips
The “nofollow” link attribute is one of many things that can improve your blog’s SEO. I’m sure you know this. However, using it is not always as easy as it seems, and in the end you can end up harming your blog if you go too wild with it.
Preventing search engines from accessing your blog’s precious content is easier than you think, so be careful. Also, be careful what kind of blogging advice you take. Still, using the “nofollow” attribute on blogroll links is a safe thing to do, and shouldn’t get you in any kind of trouble.
The thing with blogroll links is that most of the time you’re presenting them on every single page of your blog. (The most common placement for a blogroll is the sidebar or the footer.) That’s not the best idea because it spills your link juice, so to speak.
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