Taxonomy in Wordpress can be used to arrange, classify and group post. WordPress has three built in taxonomies that you've probably used already. These are : Category, Tags and Link Category. Understanding the custom Taxonomy in Wordpress So, by default a new custom one will have: domain/your taxonomy name/post name in the url. This is the importance of Taxonomy SEO … [Read more...]
Dublin core, Google and SEO
If you look at source of this webpage, you will notice some unusual meta tags like: [crayon-6a05a9c0b08a7059375203/] These peculiar looking meta are actually Dublin core. What is this Dublin core actually is? The Dublin Core is set of metadata which provides a small group of text elements through which most resources can be described. Dublin Core metadata can describe physical … [Read more...]
Long or short posts : Which works better for a blog
Just few days ago, we got an email from a regular visitor asking about what should be the ideal word count for a perfect blog post. We replied in short there; " it depends and we will write more later in details" . This is the introduction how the idea came to write this post on whether a long post or a short blog post works better for getting better search engine positioning. How long … [Read more...]
RSS Feed Subscription : Reasons why you are not getting RSS subscriber
Many bloggers can not understand the reason why their numbers of RSS feed subscribers are not increasing or why current feed subscribers are not re-visiting their blogs. Reasons behind unable to attract new RSS feed subscribers: Displaying the full RSS Feed, instead of just a custom written excerpt of the RSS feed is probably one of the most common reasons that RSS feeds are not … [Read more...]
Make money with blog : 7 points needed to be fulfilled
To make money from your blog, you need to fulfill some golden rules of the Internet Marketing strategy. Where there scent of sweet, ants will arrive; sooner or later. There are now many bloggers who want to write only to make money from blog. We actually encourage particularly to the jobless young educated peoples to make money through blogging. But, just like any business, you need to know the … [Read more...]
Best features of WordPress
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...]
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...]
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...]