wordpress seo

SEO Case Study: From Zero to a Hero in One Month

Jan 10th, 2009

Two years ago it became fairly popular to create small, niche content sites for purposes of adsense or affiliate programs monetization. Such was popularity (and it still is) of these sites that Google had taken particular measures in their search engine placement algorithms to prevent these kind of sites taking front page positions almost over night.

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Official Google Search Engine Optimization Guide

Nov 16th, 2008

Finally there is an official guide for all people who are new to SEO and ask the question "How do I start?". Google SEO Starter Guide has just been released and is Google's own answer to all SEO beginners, but also for battle-hardened SEO veterans to be reminded of basic working principles of SEO. Good job Google on releasing that one!

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Do it Yourself: Optimize your WordPress Site Titles

Nov 10th, 2008

The purpose of this article is to show technique and examples of optimizing your WordPress site titles by directly editing the theme header file, where the title tag is usually printed out. By using this method you have greater control over the titles than any plugin can offer, so effectively you will be able to disable a plugin in the process, if you were using one (and one down is always good!). Your title tag is usually found in header.php theme file.

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Newbie guide to WordPress SEO

Nov 1st, 2008

Setting up a new WordPress blog is usually a mystery for many users as they are immediately faced with hundreds of options and possible plugins. But the truth is that only a few steps are involved for an good blog setup. This article combines all the 'powerful' plugin recommendations in one place, with a special accent on SEO concepts. Setting up permalinks Right after you installed the blog, first thing should be to set the permalink structure.

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SEO for WordPress, part I

Jun 28th, 2008

Here is the beginning of a series of articles I've had keeping at the back of my head for a long time. The purpose is to introduce basic SEO principles that are applicable to WordPress. This first one will be about Page Sculpting in WordPress. Let me know your thoughts and wishes for future ones. Read it here - SEO for WordPress - Page Sculpting

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