Over time, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting some abnormal PageRank boosts. I finally tracked it down. (And this can be our little secret.)
Blogs or websites with the “Top Commenters” plugin will actually post links to the author’s website without a nofollow link. These links can appear on every page, or uniquely on the main […]
In Part 1 of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for WordPress, I discussed content and directory structures. In Part 2 of the series, I discussed how to avoid duplicate content. In this edition, I will be discussing a broad range of topics.
How To Link Between Posts
The title attribute in your link tag (<a>) is a great […]
This is a follow-up to Part 1 of Search Engine Optimization for WordPress where I discussed optimizing your content and your directory structure. In Part 2, I will discuss how you can avoid duplicate content which is a pretty straight-forward strategy to making sure Search Engines such as Google doesn’t interpret some of your content […]
Someone recently sent me an email asking me how I got so many Backlinks in such a short period of time (the domain name is only two and a half months old). I thought it was a great question, so I’ll elaborate in this article.
If you’re newer to Search Engine Optimization, I wrote my interpretation […]
In Optimizing Your HTML Tags for Search Engines - Part 1, I went over the importance of H1 and Title tags. For this part, I will talk about additional important HTML tags.
The main reason anyone should ever optimize their HTML tags, which I explained in Part 1, is that a Search Engine spider is not […]
What is a Backlink?
Simply put, a backlink is a link from an external website to your website. When the Google Search Engine bot spiders a website, it factors in how many and how good links that are pointing towards your site. Google sees this as credibility and this is likely to influence your Search Engine […]
Imagine this, you’re a Web Designer or Graphic Designer straight out of college, you’ve bought yourself a domain (with your name in it of course) and some hosting. You’ve been taught quite a bit of Adobe Flash and put together a gorgeous portfolio site. You search yourself on Google a few weeks later, your page […]
10 - Set Your Title Attributes on Your Links
Title attributes, when set in your “<a>” tag, is what’s revealed when a use mouses over your link. As pictured below.
It may appear excessive to code but this little attribute can be used internally within your site to throw in a few keywords into an […]
It can’t go without saying, WordPress is a godsent of an open-source program. It is (in my opinion) the best option for running your own blog on your own server. There are so many options, plugins and widgets and the Search Engine Optimization features that are built in are top-notch. Now some of these options […]
Let me start off by saying that optimizing your HTML tags for Search Engines is almost entirely different then optimizing your site for readers. The reason I say almost entirely different, is that, how a Search Engine searches your site is very similar as to how a user with a screen reader would see or […]
