This article Best features of Wordpress describes the features which has established Wordpress in the top position in search engine war. Today, WordPress is the best and open source CMS platform for blogging. Here are some nifty features which most bloggers like and most importantly, Google likes : there is no doubt, Wordpress has the most SEO optimization features. Best feature of … [Read more...]
Wordpress and SEO
Latest news, plugins, themes, blogs and SEO about Wordpress platform and Website designing as a whole.
Google Analytics : Understanding the perfect usage
Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tool for analyzing the traffic and change your plan according to the need. In our previous article, we discussed about Google Webmaster Tools and in another article we wrote how to integrate Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. Preference of verification methods for Google Analytics You can either manually put the tracking code … [Read more...]
Successful Blog : Going beyond SEO
A successful blog not only consists of search engine optimization (SEO), good written content or a great design. Yes, definitely, these are major factors behind a successful blog; but there are more things that must be evaluated and thought out well. So, here is a dedicated article on planning for a successful blog. Whimsical writings can not stand the test of time as a successful blog. In … [Read more...]
Dabble.in : what is this new thing?
The person responsible for making us attentive about Dabble.in is no one but Matt. We saw in the sidebar of Matt's blog saying: Reserve your username at Dabble.in (@wedabble) and help me get dabble.in/matt by signing up here - http://t.co/lb5B60T about 8 hours ago We found quite interesting as Matt means something new idea! So we headed to Dabble's page. We tried /Abhishek, but Dabble said its a … [Read more...]
Take the 9% potential of search engines other than Google
There is no doubt, Search Engine optimization (SEO) has been equivalent to optimizing website for Google search. But, we should not be ignorant about the 9% search engine market share (Data as per Wikipedia, of late 2010) by Bing, Yahoo! and all other search engines. Google: 91.0% Bing: 3.0% Yahoo: 4.0% Others: 2.0% Can we really ignore this potential? In our opinion, one should not … [Read more...]
Factors determining long term success of a blog
Creating a blog is easy! But what about the long term success of those blogs? What we need to do for long term success of our blogs? When we started this weblog, we read (and read now too) lot of topics from TheSiteWizard : a website that has stood with time (from the year 2000). Another mentionable blog is Lorelle on Wordpress. These blogs or sites stood with the time; we will define them … [Read more...]
Link Generation : some most effective methods for better SEO
Search Engines need backlinks towards a domain to give it importance. Despite excellent content, many domains remains unnoticed by Google for long time due to lack of backlinks. It is true that the content is the King. But to enhance it, we need good quality backlinks too. Here are some free and safe methods for link generation. Using Forums for link generation Join good forums … [Read more...]
Facebook fan box widget that loads faster on your blog
Most of us use the Facebook fan box widget for our blogs, the default iframe or xFBML is slower to load. Here is a trick to create your own widget. Most of the blogger uses the code for Facebook fan box widget copy-pasting from the official page blindly, either the iframe code or the xFBML code from there. Prerequisite is only your existent Face book page. Just copy the code page id from there … [Read more...]
Advertising on website: factors to be considered
Using advertising on a website or blog has some things to think about. Here is a brief guideline on how and what to look while using the advertising. This a matter of fact that bloggers and webmasters need to earn money through advertising and maybe a nice extra income can come out of it. Legal issues with using advertising When you are using advertising on your blog or website, … [Read more...]
Server location and Google indexing
Server location and SEO is a repeatedly discussed topic in SEO forums : whether it has any importance on Google indexing or not. Just like many things about Google's ranking algorithm and SEO factors, it is not very clear. Still, we will try to discuss the topic to come to a conclusion. The information we gathered about server location from different SEO forums are: Searching with … [Read more...]
Google Trends and Correlate : tools to measure the value of Keyword
What is Google Trends? Google Trends is a free service provided by Google Inc., it is based on Google Search. Google Trends shows how often a particular keyword or keyphrase has been used to search to the total search-volume across various regions of the world. Though, Google Insight seems to be very useful, the graphical representation of the trend of a Keyword or Keyphrase can be … [Read more...]