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  • 30 Aug

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    2 Must Have WordPress Plugins

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    WP Security Scan – This handy plugin will scan your wordpress installation to look for any possible security / vulnerability holes in WordPress. Most of the security items that it finds, it can fix automatically by itself, with no work on the users part. The only things that need to be performed by the user is to change the chmod permissions of files indicated as security risk. Easy to install, just extract to your plugin directory and activate the plugin.

    Nofollow Reciprocity     – Essentially what this plugin does, is look through a list of websites that use nofollow rules for links on their website. It then checks your blog for links going to these website, and adds nofollow to these links so you do not bleed off your pagerank which can cause a loss of serp because of non-recriporcal links. The plugin website goes into indepth detail of why you need to run this plugin and how it will help you with Organic Search Ranking. Easy install, just activate the plugin and it does the rest for you.

    Note: My only complaint with Nofollow was the link it puts in the footer that says

    This blog contributes to the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.

    So I decided to remove it because it was messing up my theme, and looks bad to have a link hanging at the bottom of my website outside of my wp theme.

    Here are instructions to remove it, if you wish to do so. » Read the rest of the entry..



  • 29 Aug

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    Common Mistake In Search Engine Ranking

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    This article is intended to help people get immediate traffic to their website(s) from search engines.

    It’s a common dream among website owners to be number one in organic search ranking for certain keywords, but the mistake that they make, is not realizing that this is only a dream. They believe they can have amazing keyword ranking right from the start with common keywords, not even realizing that this type of ranking feat can take several hundred hours of time, energy, work, and dedication. In the end, the website owner gets burned out, loses a lot valuable time and over looks very simple ways to get traffic and customers.

    Instead it would have been wiser to start off with geographically localized keywords. As a result they would be trying to get ranking results over a handful of websites instead of competing against hundreds, possibly thousands of websites for a common keyword. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 17 Mar

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    Using StumbleUpon For Traffic

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    Stumbleupon Using StumbleUpon For Traffic

    I have been using StumbleUpon since the very beginning of this website, which is a little over a month ago, and I have had good success with it, considering I had no friends on the service to vote I Like It. StumbleUpon brings over 100 visitors, and growing each day. I have noticed that unlike Digg, Stumble has a delay time before you start getting traffic, usually around 2 to 4 days, but unlike Digg traffic, Stumble traffic is stable and visitors continue to come day after day, long after the article / website was posted.

    The process of submitting a website to StumbleUpon is an easy uncomplicated process and takes all of a minute to do. Then in an ideal world, people will come to your website or blog entry and click I like it on the stumble bar and this votes up your website, which results in more traffic.

    I do not see a need to write a full article about this service, because so many people have written amazing articles on StumbleUpon and the several ways to use it effectively. I have read everyone of these pages and recommend them to anyone who is actively trying to get traffic or least quality backlinks to their websites. I have listed 3 links to websites explaining everything and anything someone would want to know about the service, and how you should build your StumbleUpon profile so that you can get people Stumbling your page or pages.
     

    How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide

    Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon

    A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website

     

  • 15 Mar

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    Things To Check When Using WordPress

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    wordpress check(1) Things To Check When Using Wordpress

    I am writing this post as a result of my lack of due diligence. I am usually good at checking the important parts of a website to make sure everything is working and correct, but this little tiny thing that I forgot to check, went unnoticed until today.

    So here I am, testing out some search engine ideas for my website, and I noticed in Google search that the description for howbits was way off, in fact it was nothing like what I had put into the all in one SEO plugin. So off I go, back to my website to investigate this weird issue and come to find out, when I changed website design I had forgotten to remove the default meta description and keyword code for the theme.

    I learned that, all in one SEO loads it’s meta tags after the themes header information, so if a meta tag is used before all in one SEO meta tags, the first meta tags are shown and not the later ones. As a result all in one SEO description was not showing up, and my website description was the default blog description.

    So for anyone who has a WordPress website, who uses themes, and the plugin All in one SEO, you may want to follow this list of what to remove out of your themes header file. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 10 Mar

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    Quick Tips For WordPress Speed Up

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    wordpress speedometer(2) Quick Tips For Wordpress Speed Up

    The subject of optimizing WordPress and making a website Stumble / digg proof, has been rehashed so many times, that I had to talk myself into even writing a post about it. This list is short and straight to the point about optimizing WordPress, with easy to use plugins and tips. Most of these have been mentioned several times before, but since I just re-did the design on my website and had to optimize it all over again so that it would load as fast as possible, I figured now would be a good time to post about how to do it, since it’s still fresh in my mind. This list is for people who don’t have access to the http.config file or the Php.ini file. It is over the top configuration, so no editing of the htaccess file.

    Recommended website to check out the loading speed of your website, and how big the web site file that is sent to each visitor. Website Speed Test

    WordPress Plugins – This article includes an advanced tweak for wp super cache, I have also included instructions on other things you should do instead of relying on the plugins to do all the work. I just wrote an article about must have and highly recommend WordPress plugins and all of these plugins are listed, with some other plugins that most bloggers should have and use.

    Wp-Super-Cache – Whenever your website is viewed or indexed, your database dishes out the information for the page. This can cause the website to load slow if the database has to do this for every visitor on your website. Wp super cache, takes the database information and makes static content that can be resent thousands / millions of times, so that the database doesn’t have to recreate the webpages every time someone visits your website.
    Advanced Wp Super Cache tip – Some people try to get the most out of this great plugin. The most common tweak is adding Gzip to the plugin, so that the page is zipped up and sent in a package to a visitor, which can result in a faster loading webpage. I say to use this at your own risk, I have had some issues with it where my webpage comes up as a blank index with nothing loading up, even though to me the page appears to be working fine. I ended up removing this tweak, even though the problem occurs only a couple times a week. For those brave souls out there that want to give it a try, heres how you add it. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 08 Mar

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    Must Have & Highly Recommended WordPress Plugins

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    wordpress icon Must Have & Highly Recommended Wordpress Plugins

    List of highly recommended and must have WordPress Plugins for the casual blogger to the full time professional blogger.

    Akismets – This plugin stops about 90% or more of comment spam on my website, for any blogger you need to make sure your website does not become over ran by spam.

    Wp-super-cache – Anyone who has a WordPress based website needs this. It speeds up your website by Caching and creating Static pages of your content. This results, in faster loading web site, since the database which dishes out the pages and various types of information, doesn’t need to work as hard. You will find that your bandwidth usage for your website will go down, and your website will show a significant increase in speed.

    All in one SEO Pack – This little goody helps to make your Blog SEO friendly, and to give you greater control over the basic SEO practices such as Page Titles, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, etc. Easy to setup, and is a must for anyone with WordPress who wants traffic from search engines.

    Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin creates the Sitemaps that you should be using with your blog to dictate what to search on your website. This plugin notifies MSN, Ask, Google, and Yahoo about changes on your website so the new content can be indexed.

    Optimize DB – I wrote a blog post on the plugin last week about Avoiding excessive CPU usage  errors from your web host. This plugin optimizes the database of your website, so you do not have to log into you phpadmin every day to keep your database small and efficient, so it does not take up the processing power of the machine that is hosting it. It will speed up the loading of your website and it’s easy to use, so use it at the end of the day if you have been posting or modifying your website. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 03 Mar

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    SEO Addon Domains / Subdomains

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    This article is about the use of Folders vs Add-on Domains, also referred to as Subdomains, and the advantages and disadvantages of SEO and PageRank for both.

    Naysayers – Web SEO Guru Idiots

    Many web gurus will argue that search engines will see that the IP address is the same for each website and will put the website together in search results, and not split them out. If this were true, then hundreds of websites that are on shared hosting, that have the same IP address,  would be searched and indexed as one website. Another fact against what these web gurus think, is that if this were true, then why do the major websites such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. Practice this for their websites?? If you type in Google in a search engine you will see a long list of results for Google, such as news.google.com, maps.google.com, help.google.com, and the list goes on and on.

    Folder Domain – Pros and Cons

    When I say folders I am referring to folders that are one level higher on the site root. An example is http://howbits.com/examplefolder/.

    Pros

    1. When using folders you get more content for your website. Each folder, and whatever is in the folder is consider content for the main site, so if I make howbits.com/news/, well anything that ends up in the News folder is more content for my website and everyone knows Content is king. Search Engines love websites with a lot of content, so this of course will increase my ranking in search results
    2. PageRank is shared with the folders of the website, so whatever my PageRank is in Howbits.com, chances are if the links are built right, then any content in the news folder will get the rank share.
    3. Folders are easier to maintain then Add-on Domains, because they are still part of the main website.
    4. If the websites are linked correctly, you can get an indented listing using the main website with good SEO, and then connecting to another page with poor ranking, but the ranking can ride on the ranking of the main website and thus get better search results by proxy.

    » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 28 Feb

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    Beginner’s Guide To SEO

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    A free SEO guide from SEOmoz.com, that I read when I was first getting started in SEO and I highly recommend it. I recently found it on my harddrive when I was searching for another Document. I didn’t find the document I was looking for, but I found this guide that really gave me a boost in the right direction in SEO. I highly recommend reading it, if you are interested in Search Engine Optimization. There is nothing you need to buy, just select the way you want to read it and your good to go

    Here is an exert from the 9 page beginner guide -

    Speed Bumps & Walls

    Certain types of navigation may hinder or entirely prevent search engines from reaching your website’s content. As search engine spiders crawl the web, they rely on the architecture of hyperlinks to find new documents and revisit those that may have changed. In the analogy of speed bumps and walls, complex links and deep site structures with little unique content may serve as "bumps." Data that cannot be accessed by spiderable links qualify as "walls."

    Possible "Speed Bumps" for SE Spiders:

    • URLs with 2+ dynamic parameters; i.e. http://www.url.com/page.php?id=4&CK=34rr&User=%Tom% (spiders may be reluctant to crawl complex URLs like this because they often result in errors with non-human visitors)
    • Pages with more than 100 unique links to other pages on the site (spiders may not follow each one)
    • Pages buried more than 3 clicks/links from the home page of a website (unless there are many other external links pointing to the site, spiders will often ignore deep pages)
    • Pages requiring a "Session ID" or Cookie to enable navigation (spiders may not be able to retain these elements as a browser user can)
    • Pages that are split into "frames" can hinder crawling and cause confusion about which pages to rank in the results.

    Possible "Walls" for SE Spiders:

    • Pages accessible only via a select form and submit button
    • Pages requiring a drop down menu (HTML attribute) to access them
    • Documents accessible only via a search box
    • Documents blocked purposefully (via a robots meta tag or robots.txt file)
    • Pages requiring a login
    • Pages that re-direct before showing content (search engines call this cloaking or bait-and-switch and may actually ban sites that use this tactic)

    The key to ensuring that a site’s contents are fully crawlable is to provide direct, HTML links to each page you want the search engine spiders to index. Remember that if a page cannot be accessed from the home page (where most spiders are likely to start their crawl), it is likely that it will not be indexed by the search engines. A sitemap can be of tremendous help for this purpose.

    Link to the Free Manual from Seomoz

  • 21 Feb

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    PageRank Sharing SEO Tactics

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    This article is geared towards PageRank and how to share the rank with other pages through proper hyperlink use and how it works.

    Every SEO expert talks about relevant keywords and Anchor text, and if your website is relevant to the website linking to your page, you will get PageRank sharing with your website. But most people think relevant is, oh look this page is about homes, and since my page is about selling homes, this must be relevant. Sadly this is not how it works.  An easy way to see if a website is relevant to yours, is to check the websites Keywords and Description. If none of the keywords or description keywords match what you type in the hyper-link to your page, you will not get an increase or sharing of PageRank.  

    Note – It is still good for you to pick websites that are similar to yours to get a link from. Chances are, if a person is on a website about homes, they will most likely click on another link about homes. This way you will actually get visitors from the page instead of just some PageRank. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 18 Feb

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    Overlooked Little BIG Tips for SEO and Traffic

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    Authors Note – When I say Social Bookmarking websites, I do not mean websites like Digg, Propeller, Slashdot, etc, only submit articles to these places, submitting just a website will get you banned. Only submit / add your website once to bookmarking websites, not multiple times, there is no gain from this, except a ban.

     

    1. Submit your main website to social book marking places and make your bookmarks public.

    So many people with blogs over look this. I know of several websites that have every article on their website social bookmarked, but they forgot to bookmark the most important one, their main page.

    These simple bookmark websites on the internet are insanely powerful for traffic. Each bookmark, that is public, will be indexed by search engines, so as a result you will get multiple search engine pages with your website. A very nice side effect of this is that most of the listings will be not be omitted by search engines as other relevant listings; instead you can expect to get multiple listings on a search engine, instead of just one listing, or the indented listing which shows only two links to people searching the web. A good example, if you type in Howbits on google you will see multiple results for my website from other websites, and most are social bookmarking places.

    So my recommendations are to come up with a good description about your website, your popular tags, and submit it to social book marking websites. Make sure your profile is shared via public, and not private, I have seen some people go through this process and forget to make their profile public.

    On a side note, when you have these book marking websites linking to you, the search engines checks the tags from these websites that you have entered and conclude that since you have the same tags on your website AND on the bookmark to your website, that these tags must be important for your website, so it will give you a increase on keyword ranking in search engines. You can do this for each page on your website that you want traffic to get to.

    At the bottom of this post I will put a list of common book marking websites; there are tens of hundreds of websites like these out there. Make sure to utilize them so they work in your favor, this means use good tags, and descriptions. » Read the rest of the entry..

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