A few months ago I moved this website from a static design (HTML and Dreamweaver) to a Wordpress-driven blog. Like so many sites shooting for position in the hyper-competitive SEO space, my static site was sitting with only a few views a day, and served only as a reference point for clients and prospects who […]
Entries from January 2008
Alexa Proves That Blogging Works
January 24th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Tags: Blog marketing
What’s With Google Pagerank?
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
On Friday, this site had a Google toolbar pagerank (TBPR) of 4. Today, It’s zero.
Other than (almost) daily posts, there are four changes that may have caused this:
A myriad minor changes to the blog template. I fiddle with this a few times a week, so maybe something was done that caused a problem.
The addition of […]
Tags: Blog marketing
Social Bookmarking Sites That Don’t “NoFollow”
January 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Here is a quick and dirty followup to my NoFollowFree (NOFF) post of a few days ago. I just found a list of social bookmarking sites that do NOT enforce the “nofollow” tag for submitted links.
http://www.maranan.us/list-of-do-follow-social-bookmarks/
So get submitting! Seriously this list is only an hour old. And greets to Alibata, who assembled the list.
Tags: SEO
Three Titles for Blogs – Do You Use Them Effectively?
January 16th, 2008 · 12 Comments
This is the second of a two-part series on writing and using web page titles. The first post is about killer web page titles, and you can find it here.
Today, however, I want to introduce you to the three “titles” that matter on WordPress blogs, and how you use them to best advantage.
Tags: SEO
Can You Write Killer Page Titles?
January 15th, 2008 · 12 Comments
Ask any SEO expert, and it’s likely they will tell you that the <title> element in a web page’s <head> section is the single most important factor to maximise search engine visibility. Create a title, they say, that includes the key term you’re optimising the page for… given time, links and luck, you should have […]
Tags: SEO
Why The WordPress ‘More’ Tag Is Your Friend
January 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Ever visited a blog and on the home, or index, page, seen how the posts there show a few lines then a ‘Read More’ link? In WordPress that’s the effect of using the ‘more’ tag, and there’s two reasons why you should use it too.
Tags: Blog marketing
Comment “nofollow” Removed
January 9th, 2008 · 31 Comments
By default, Wordpress inserts the ‘nofollow’ directive to all author and comment links to make comment spamming unattractive. While this seems like a good thing, the Akismet plugin (included by default with all new Wordpress installs) seems to do a pretty good job of stopping comment spam in the first place.
Tags: Blog marketing
Problems With The RSS Feed
January 8th, 2008 · No Comments
I have just fixed the RSS feed for this blog, and routed it via feedburner. My apologies to you for not spotting the problem and fixing this earlier.
Tags: Stratify
Is Your robots.txt File Killing Your Search Engine Rankings?
January 8th, 2008 · 19 Comments
Way back in April 2007 I wrote a post about robots.txt, a small text file that instructs search engines about what can and can’t be indexed on your site.
Since moving to Wordpress a few months ago, it’s become clear that Wordpress has a few issues with duplicate content. In essence, it generates multiple URLs that […]
Tags: SEO
Why Your Business Needs a Blog
January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Blogger Conrad Hees published a post titled “Why You’re Nobody Until You Have a Blog” a few days ago, and I’ve only just discovered it.
It’s worth your time to read it.
Tags: Blog marketing
