Tag Archives: WordPress SEO
PageRank Sculpting Isn’t Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank
This post was originally titled "Is PageRank Sculpting Dead & Can Comments Kill Your PageRank"
Following a confirmation post from Google's Matt Cutts today, it seems PageRank Sculpting as practiced by many SEOs is effectively dead, and comments, even using links with nofollow CAN have a negative effect on the amount of PageRank that can be passed on to your internal pages.
Posted in SEO Blog Also tagged Google PageRank, matt cutts, pagerank, PageRank Sculpting, search engine optimization, SEO Blog Comments closed
A Geeky Look & Some Simple Solutions To Achieving First Link Priority & Referential Integrity With WordPress (Or Why WordPress SEO Themes Aren’t)
Think buying a custom premium WordPress SEO theme will give you perfect SEO? Think again...
I don't think there is one "premium" WordPress Theme that doesn't claim to be perfect for SEO "out-of-the-box", so I thought I would bash some theme developer heads around and maybe knock some sense into them.
They might achieve 50:50 of what could be expected of a true SEO theme (though I haven't seen the latest Semiologic Pro out in the wild), and potentially with the aid of 3rd party plugins currently available, they could reach 80:20.
However most claim they don't need 3rd party plugins to achieve their eminence in WordPress SEO
That doesn't leave WordPress SEO plugins off the hook, there isn't one plugin that gets beyond 60:40 or with some tweeking possibly 70:30, depending on what factors you feel are important, or are aware of.
Awareness is certainly one of the problems...
Posted in SEO Blog, themes, wordpress Also tagged first link priority, pagerank, Referential Integrity, stompernet, wordpress, wordpress seo themes, wordpress themes Comments closed
Blogging Response Rate (Poll)
Whilst the test I performed over the last few days isn't ideal, recently, just for a few days I actually switched off my email subscriptions. Email subscriptions has never accounted for the largest percentage of my subscribers, but I have always recognised them among my most responsive readers. I assure you the decision wasn't taken lightly, especially with a number of major launches to write about which were highly targeted to my core audience.
One of the promotions I was testing was for Jeff Johnson's WordPress SEO Blogging Software.
The post was written on Friday, not the ideal time to publish, but
Posted in blogging tips Also tagged blogging software, jeff johnson, poll, SEO Blog, wordpress Comments closed
New WordPress SEO Blogging Software
What a difference 24 hours make.
A few days ago I was honestly prepared to rip a product to shreds. It wasn't that it was a bad product, but it wasn't as well prepared as it should have been, and from what I can tell it was due to an honest communication error between a well respected online marketer and his programming team.
But before I talk about the product itself, I am going to give you a little history lesson.
Wordpress Elite
A few years ago I purchased a script called WordPress Elite. It was pretty useful, and allowed you to point the
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins, reviews, wordpress Also tagged search engine optimization, SEO Blog, wordpress, wordpress installation Comments closed
Site Structure – SEOs Going Fishing Without Any Bait
If you don't know what you are doing with nofollow, noindex and robots.txt you can royally mess* things up (face to face I would use a stronger term). Even if you do know what you are doing, you can still mess things up.
I can understand why Matt Cutts might want to change what noindex does, it is not just Koreans making occasional mistake, for instance I just noticed the whole WebProNews video blog is currently noindex nofollow. I am sure that is a mistake, it is easy to make in Wordpress… just one click and save.
All in one
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, wordpress Also tagged follow, google juice, linking-structure, nofollow, noindex, pagerank, SEO Blog, site structure, wordpress Comments closed
Optimizing HTML Links In The Aftermath Of A Blog Storm
Hopefully if you ever get caught up in the whirlwind of a blog storm, and receive 10s, maybe even hundreds of links to one of your articles, that the topic of both the page being linked to, and the pages being linked from are related to your online business, and the topic of your blog.
It is quite likely that you have been developing other articles on similar topics for months, receiving very little online attention, and even more worrying, if you create follow-on articles providing important updates, they are less likely to be seen.
The majority of traffic will by default enter your site (the landing page) on the page that received the most links, and this traffic might continue for days, weeks, months and even years.
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips Also tagged 301 redirect, Google PageRank, google_juice, htaccess, internal_linking, linking_structure, link_juice, SEO Blog, wordpress Comments closed
Sphinn Greatest Hits – Could The #1 Be Some Useful Content?
John Andrews currently has the top rated article on Sphinn with a truly brilliant display of link baiting and social media awareness.
I am not sure I am going to be able to knock him off the top spot, and this very post will probably gain him a few more votes, but I would like to think that one of my older articles could at least be a contender.
If This Content Is So Good, Why Hasn't It Been Submitted Before?
There are a number of reasons why my old post on Wordpress SEO and Dynamic Linking might not have
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins, themes, wordpress Also tagged payperpost, reviewme, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, sphinn, sponsored reviews, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress themes Comments closed
Pushing WordPress SEO Boundaries
How many SEO blogs actually write original content?
I am not talking about original words, but original ideas which can be based either on experience from experimentation or what I would describe as reasoned theory? Experience based on following conventional wisdom just doesn't count - you only need to read one SEO blog for accepted best practice, it doesn't really matter which one of the mainstream SEO blogs you choose. You might choose a few more for industry news with differing opinion.
The kind of blogs I love to read are those with substance, even if I can't fully understand all of them
Posted in SEO Blog, wordpress Also tagged internal_linking, linking, linking_structures, SEO Blog Comments closed
Wordpress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (Wordpress SEO Masterclass Continued)
This is a continuation of my WordPress Search Engine Optimization Masterclass. It is really the one missing component, other than a complete theme with everything built in, to achieve the linking structures I described in my previous article.
Sandcastles Theme
I am still playing around with my Sandcastles Theme on a test site (based upon Sandbox) - it will be released fairly soon, but not until I have this site moved over onto new servers.
I thought I would release this now so that those who don't want to work with a modified Sandbox theme are free to use it, and most people can probably gain some benefit from it anyway, as it will reduce external links on duplicate content pages without having to block them.
Pagerank is based upon pages and relevant links
Posted in SEO Blog, plugins, themes, wordpress Also tagged Dynamic Linking, mininet, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, siloing, tag, tagging, ultimate tag warrior, utw, wordpress Comments closed
Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches
Take a well optimized Wordpress blog in a competitive niche, rip it apart, and help maximise its chances of ranking in the SERPs and raking in some cash. This isn't lame all-in-one optimization plugins, it is totally geeking it out!
Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, plugins, themes, wordpress Also tagged backlinks, Dynamic Linking, linking strategy, linking-structure, payperpost direct, revenge of the mininet, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, tagging, wordpress, wordpress plugins Comments closed
Wordpress SEO – Siloing vs Massive Ball Linking With Tags
This is not the definitive guide to Wordpress SEO, and I highly doubt I am the right person to write one, in fact I am not sure who would be. That being said this partial guide on a couple of aspects of Wordpress SEO might offer a broader perspective on what is possible than I have seen previously published.
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Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, vre, wordpress Also tagged mininet, siloing, synamic_linking, tag, tagging, ultimate_tag_-warrior, utw, wordpress Comments closed
WordPress Comment SEO Solutions
I am sure some of this post is going to blow people's brains, though this is only the tip of the iceberg.