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Excellent WordPress SEO Tips

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:10:02 GMT

clipped by: phatmommy

Clip Source: www.joostdevalk.nl

Increase search engine traffic to your WordPress blog with one night's work!

1. Improve your titles, meta descriptions, and "more" texts

2. Pick the correct permalink structure and slug

3.1. Breadcrumbs

3.2. Headings

Although most themes for WordPress get this right, make sure your post title is an <h1>, and nothing else.

3.3. Clean up your code

4. Remove duplicate content

Go into your theme and remove all references to other taxonomies. Wipe out the date based archive, and remove the tagging or the categories from single.php, archive.php, index.php and search.php.

4.2 noindex,follow unimportant or dupe pages

4.3 A one author blog? Disable the author archives

5. Interlink related posts

6. Create linkable content!

Tags: wordpress, seo, blogging

Why Blog Commenting is Important

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:50:58 GMT

clipped by: phatmommy
clipper's remarks: Good general overview of the importance of blog commenting.

Clip Source: www.beginnerblogging.com

When launching a blog one of the key components to the effort is interacting with other blogs in your given niche. You can write all the content you want, but with seven million blogs you’re going to need to get out and communicate in order for people to find you.

One key method for doing that is commenting.

Here are some key benefits to blog commenting:

The ability to share your opinion and develop yourself as a niche expert.

Commenting shows you’re going to be active in a community and willing to offer up thoughts.

The authors of the sites on which you comment will be intrigued and oftentimes visit your site to see what you’re all about. Thus, your readership has a chance to grow.

If you’re one of the first to comment on a very popular post, other readers will follow the link to your site and see who was on top of the latest popular story.

Tags: blogging, social networking, blog traffic

Increase Sociability Plugin

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:04:39 GMT

clipped by: phatmommy
clipper's remarks: Nice idea for a plugin, and you can edit the text that shows. Sweet.

Clip Source: www.preblogging.com

Basically what happens is it checks the refer (what page the visitor is coming from) and if it matches either Digg.com or StumbleUpon.com then it will simply welcome the user and ask them to give you a positive vote if they like the page.

The plugin only serves as a reminder to help people to either digg or stumble your post. It is still up to the user to click that icon to give you the vote. Increase Sociability is just a smart way to increase your traffic from social media sites, and ultimately to increase your visitors/sales/revenue !

Tags: blog traffic, social networking, blogging, social bookmarking

5 Steps to Better Social Media Marketing

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:16:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailyblogtips.com

If you want to be more effective with driving traffic to your website or blog with social media, here are five steps that are sure to improve your results.

One of the first things you will need to do is find a few sites that will work well for you. Of course the larger sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are popular choices because of the large traffic volumes that they send. But if you are looking for sites that can send high quality traffic, first look for niche-specific social media sites.

If you hope to ever become a true authority on social media, you’ll have to implement consistent use.

find a topic that is of particular interest to your readers and present it in a way that also appeals to social media users. For example, social media users like lists, breaking news, photos, controversy, and informative topics.

4. Networking and Helping Others

5. Conversion

Tags: blogging, social networking, marketing

Technorati: How it works and why you need it

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:39:36 GMT

clipped by: phatmommy
clipper's remarks: Nice "Technorati Bootcamp."

Clip Source: courtneytuttle.com

Your Technorati authority rating is simple, it is the number of unique blogs that have linked to you. The authority rating for this site is 94; this means that 94 different blogs have linked to me so far. As my authority rating goes up, my Technorati ranking goes down. Remember that down is good for your Technorati ranking.

Many advertisers will decide how much to pay you based on what your Technorati ranking is.

Since your Technorati ranking is based 100% on links from other blogs, you need to get links from other blogs! Here are some of the easiest and most effective ways to get those links:

Use the D-List.

Use blog carnivals.

Work relentlessly on your site. The more value you can provide, the more you will get linked to.

Tags: blog traffic, blogging, technorati

Join a CLIQ

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:01:45 GMT

clipped by: phatmommy
clipper's remarks: Interesting app that helps you share readers and traffic with like-minded bloggers.

Clip Source: www.cliqin.com

ARE YOU CLIQin’?

Join Forces with Your Friends
Team up with friends or related blogs to create a unique channel for your blog content. You control membership and access.

Promote Your Posts
Blogs in your CLIQ will share links to members' posts via the CLIQ Widget. Feature posts through your CLIQ to boost your traffic.

Collaborate & Compete
The CLIQ reporting tools make it easy to see who's got the hottest post, and the most views on their blog.

Start a CLIQ

Tags: blogging, web 2.0, web apps, social networking

Dynamic Blogrolls Are the Way To Go

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:39:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.webware.com

Both MineKey and RollSense let you feed in a list of blogs you like or respect, and then they create embeddable widgets that display items from those blogs that they think your readers will like. Based on what individuals click on, the list is further refined over time.

Many bloggers put a "blogroll," a list of other blogs they like, on the sidebars of their pages. Blogrolls help the bloggers who create them feel like they're in a club with writers they like. Reciprocal blogrolling makes everyone feel all warm and fuzzy. But blogrolls aren't very functional, since static lists of links quickly become invisible to readers.

As I said, Google Reader and RSS Mixer are also options, although they don't have the automatic content selection of MineKey and RollSense. On Google, if you "share" posts from your feeds, you can display that list as a widget on any other site.

Tags: blog traffic, bloggers, blogging, blogroll, feed reader, rss, widget

Is Page-Rank Leakage For Real?

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:11:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.webstractions.com

Whether you call it link hoarding or PR dilution, PageRank leak theories have been around for years. There have not been any solid provable studies on the effects of external links in regards to PR leakage and its relationship to how that may affect your ranking in organic search engine results. PR leaking has always been an over-hyped link baiting topic used by SEO-types who just want what you want --- more links.

The premise behind blogs is simple. Link, and you will be linked in kind or more aptly --- United we stand, divided we fall.

In an effort to improve the blog in the name of the almighty PageRank, they are in effect biting the hands that feed them --- the Blogroll members. And of course reciprocity will be the name of game when that hand returns the favor and stops linking back. They may even drop you from their "favorite reading" list as well if they see a trend of link hoarding out of you.

Tags: blog traffic, blogging, page rank, blogroll

Stupidly Simple Tip to Boost PR and SEO

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:33:09 GMT

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Clip Source: iffect.net

However, here is one simple tip that I really think will boost your Page Rank and SEO, giving you more ‘authority’ in the search engines.

Now here’s the thing; if the blog you’re commenting on has removed NoFollow, and your comment link now possesses ‘Google Juice’, is it wise to always point to your homepage? According to some SEO experts, we should be deep-linking at every opportunity. With Google continually working on producing more relative results, they know that an article on any given keyword, will generally give the searcher what they’re looking for a lot better than a homepage. For that reason, their algorithms are designed to pull up articles with links pointing directly to the article.

Therefore, wouldn’t it be an idea to replace the link to the homepage in the comments section, to one of your best articles? Of course, you’d change the article you’d point to every few weeks of commenting or so, to spread the weight.

Tags: blog traffic, blogging, page rank, commenting

27 Lessons Learned About Growing a Blog

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:08:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lots more good ideas in this article - click over and read it through!

Clip Source: www.pickthebrain.com

Just in case you don’t get past number one, my two most important points are a) help people solve a problem, it’s the most powerful way to keep them coming back, and b) differentiate yourself. There are so many blogs that if you don’t stand out, you’ll get lost in the crowd.

It’s not always what you know, who you know is important too. Content brings people back, but in the beginning you need a group of “internet friends” to network with. Don’t be shy about emailing bloggers in your niche, you’d be surprised how receptive they are when you share your best content.

Make people think. It doesn’t happen very often and they won’t easily forget it.

Design matters. If your blog looks terrible, people won’t take it seriously. If it’s too cluttered or difficult to read, people will get frustrated and leave. A great design gives people a warm fuzzy feeling that makes a site worth visiting for its own sake.

Tags: blog traffic, blogging

Importance of Maintaining a "Top Posts" List on Your Blog

Sat, 12 May 2007 02:49:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great advice.

Clip Source: www.stuntdubl.com

You probably have some GREAT posts buried in your archives that I will never see if you don’t bring them to the top. Bring them to my attention!! Show me your crem-de-la-crem. Like 99% of your potential blog readers, I’M IN A HURRY to get to the other 500 feeds I want to read today. Bust out the goods, and don’t make me dig through your cat posts

Think of your best posts page as a sitemap for new users to check out your style. There are two things that will get people to subscribe when they visit - Personality (about page) and style (best posts page). Personally, it takes me less than five minutes to decide if I’ll ever visits a blog again and subscribe with bloglines. Please make a good impression to your first timers.

Tags: blogging, blog traffic