Around four years ago trademark policy with WordPress was confusing. Automattic registered the WordPress trademark and began sending out letters to domain owners who provided goods and services around the WordPress brand. They actually started sending out these letters and emails before the trademark was even published for opposition. Matt has just announced that … [Read more...]
SEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make
I am going to attempt to debunk almost every WordPress SEO “Expert” article ever written, and in some respects, this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past. This article does not reference Google Toolbar PageRank in any way. First of all, you are going to need to do a little homework. Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts The Eric Enge … [Read more...]
Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) WordPress Plugin
I have just added support for Sphinn to my hacked version of the popular Sociable plugin. For those unfamiliar with Antisocial, these are the differences All links have nofollow added – this might sound strange coming from someone who strongly supports the removal of nofollow from comments, but there is no logical purpose having a followable link to a social bookmark … [Read more...]
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 entirely geeking it out! Update: 28th August 2010 – this article doesn’t take into account changes to the way Google handles nofollow to combat PageRank … [Read more...]
Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins
Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks WordPress by default, just like other blogging platforms, has automatically been adding the “nofollow” microformat extension to all links from user generated content such as comments and trackbacks. To support the growing rejection of NoFollow for blog comments, I have compiled this list of plugins that help you remove nofollow from … [Read more...]