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SEO for WordPress Part II
2007-05-27 17:22:00
This is the second part of the essential SEO tips for Word Press blogs covering the topics of Google Sitemaps plugins, pings and ping servers, valid (X)HTML, importance of a layout that puts post content ahead of sidebars and navigation, and displaying post excerpts and teaser text on the home page. You should ...
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SEO for WordPress
2007-05-13 14:24:00
WordPress is without question the most popular stand-alone blog platform. It is flexible and customizable; there are lots of useful plugins providing any functionality a blogger can think of. However, a fresh installation of a WordPress blogs leaves a lot for improvement. For instance, search engine optimization ...
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How Much Blog Spam? A Study of a Ping Dataset
2007-02-12 22:57:02
How much blog spam is produced in 5 minutes in a quiet Sunday evening? What is the ratio of spam blogs in the most popular blog services? To answer this question I present you the results of an experiment analyzing ping data and ...
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Articles Directories List: Ordered by Alexa Rating
2007-02-01 10:50:01
Are article submissions worth the time? When doing manual submissions it takes me 10 to 15 minutes in average to login, format and submit an article to an article directory. I have to make at least 10 submissions to get a feasible exposure for my articles. So this process can take ...
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Guidelines to a Perfect Link Exchange Scam
2006-12-25 10:23:01
Reciprocal link exchange still is an important strategy of link popularity building despite all the measures taken by the search engines to diminish its effect. Back in 1999-2001 obtaining a quality link exchange was not difficult, and webmasters used to respond more willingly to an e-mail request. But as more people [...]
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Making Money From Your Blog?s RSS Feed
2006-12-20 04:18:02
Some blog for fun, some blog for money, some blog for both. There are numerous options to monetize a blog. AdSense ads, affiliate links, paid reviews, links to your products ? you name it. If your blog receives enough visitors you can start making living online. To make the most of [...]
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Emerging SEM Markets: Portugal
2006-12-20 04:18:02
Recently I was approached by a colleauge from Port ugal who offered me the following article on SEO and online advertising market in his country. I am gladly publishing this report by Nuno Hipólito here. Why invest in SEM in small to medium European markets According [...]
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How to Make a WordPress Blog Duplicate Content Safe
2006-12-02 16:04:01
In one of my recent posts I wrote about the duplicate content issue. This topic is especially important to me since my blog uses the Word Press content management system which, when used with the default configuration, is not duplicate content proof. In fact this CMS is capable to render almost [...]
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Online Copywriting: Addressing Personality Types
2006-11-25 03:54:01
Everyone familiar with the basic copywriting rules knows that successful copy is the one that answers the most critical question for us all: What’s In It For Me? However many authors fail to realize the way this question has to be asked so that it can reflect the preferences and traits [...]
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Duplicate Content - What You Ought to Know About
2006-11-24 03:51:01
Take a look at your website. How much of your content might be considered as duplicate by a search engine algorithm? Even though you never copy anyone you can’t answer ‘none’ because someone can be copying you. Duplicate content is one of the biggest issues both for search engines trying to [...]
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Search Engines vs. SEO Spam: Statistical Methods
2006-11-15 03:36:03
High placement in a search engine is critical for the success of any online business. Pages appearing higher in the search engine results to queries relevant to a site’s business will get higher targeted traffic. To get this kind of competitive advantage Internet [...]
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The Future of the Web
2006-11-08 03:24:02
What will be the next big thing on the Web? This was one of the questions asked in the State of the Web Development 2006/2007 Research by SitePoint. About 5000 web professionals took part in the survey, and below is a sample of [...]
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SEO: Flash Is Evil. Five Big Reasons Not to Use Flash
2006-10-27 16:06:01
Flash is evil Building Flash-powered websites is wrong. Storing your content in Flash movies is wrong. Implementing site navigation in Flash is wrong. Then why are there so many Flash sites? They look pretty with all those neat vector graphics, gradients, animations and cool sound effects. Flash is the [...]
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Link Popularity Building Strategies and Tips
2006-10-27 16:06:01
Link Pop ularity Link building has always been a hot topic. In the beginning of the web hyperlinks were virtually the only way to get visitors to a site, because search engines were in their infancy. When search engines grew to be the major source of the [...]
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The 5 Myths about Google PageRank
2006-10-27 16:06:01
The recent Toolbar RageRank update once again has generated a lot of discussion in the SEO community. Webmasters report their websites receiving not much more traffic despite the increased visible Page Rank. In numerous forum threads people question the reliability of toolbar values. By unveiling the following five myths I hope to answer to some of [...]
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Online Copywriting. Copy and Content: Any Difference?
2006-10-27 16:06:01
People think that copy and content are two different things, since they serve two different purposes of motivation and information. But in terms of user conversion their differences fade away. Copy and Content : Conversion Perspective People generally consider content and copy as two different entities. Well, it is true: they do have two different purposes. The [...]
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Matt Cutts: Webmaster Guidelines to Succeed in Google
2006-10-27 16:06:01
Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google since 2000, the author of SafeSearch, the Google?s family filter, is famous for his blog where he reveals some of the Google?s secrets. Matt Cutts: Webmaster Guide lines to Succeed in Google. A Video Transcript. Q: What are the guidelines and recommendations to increase site?s visibility [...]
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How To Add Web 2.0 Tagging Links to a WordPress Blog
2006-10-27 16:06:01
Web 2.0 Tagging and Blogs Do you use Web 2.0 tagging websites? Well, I do. They are so much handier than the traditional browser bookmarks! I can easily access my favorites’ list at home, at the university campus, at cyber cafes, at airports or train stations. I [...]
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Paid Search Marketing Vs. Natural Search Promotion
2006-10-27 16:06:01
Paid Search Market ing Many web marketers see paid search marketing as the fastest way to bring traffic to their online shops. At the first glance the pay-per-click scheme looks easy: you bid on a keyword, higher bids get higher positions (Overture), and web users see your listing [...]
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Average Keyword Saturation: Google, MSN, Yahoo
2006-10-27 16:06:01
When deciding upon keyword placement we all try to get the most out of our target keywords saturation. In the same time no one wants to get penalized by accidentally inserting too many keywords in the page copy, or by including too many words between H1 tags. Since search engines would never publish the exact [...]
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Page-Related Factors and SERPs Ranking
2006-10-27 16:06:01
Page-Related Fact ors Continued from Search Engine Rank ing Parameters List This group includes a large number of parameters, which determine how the page is presented to search engine spiders. Since webmasters have more control over these features than over any other ranking parameter, page-related factors are often used for SEO abuse. This is why search engine algorithms now [...]
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Distribution of Clicks on Google?s SERPs
2006-10-27 16:06:01
What is the distribution of clicks on a search engine results page? What percentage of clicks gets each search result according to its rank? How much more users? attention gets the first listing compared to the second? Or how often do users click the listing below [...]
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