Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category

WordPress SEO Adjustment Leads To Higher Traffic

If you want more web site traffic, you'll need to adjust your WordPress theme so that the search engines will index the right pages. The secret lies in preventing duplicate content, and here's how to solve that issue.

Lightbox and Opt-in Forms

People serious about listbuilding campaigns have been experimenting with Lightbox as far as their opt-in forms (namesqueeze pages) are concerned, because having a list (and a lot of subscribers) is one way of getting repeat visits to your website.

PR-Friendly Comments and Traffic

If you want more traffic, reward your commenters will PR-friendly comments. Usually, links in comments placed in Wordpress blogs have a "nofollow" tag, which means no pagerank juice is passed on to that link. And no PR juice translates to no additional Google search engine points.
Fortunately, there is a way to convert "nofollow" into "DoFollow."

Language and Traffic

Want more traffic for your site? You can attract more people if you provide different translations of your site. And the best part is, you can do this easily with the help of a Wordpress plugin.

MyBlogLog Avatar WordPress Plugin

In an effort to encourage people to join MyBlogLog.com, I've installed MyAvatars: A WordPress Plugin for MyBlogLog.
Let's see if this works properly: MyBlogLog members who leave a comment in this blog will have their avatars appear along with their comment.
What will this achieve? More traffic for your site.
As more people join MyBlogLog, they will visit [...]

Upgrade to WordPress 2.0.7 Now

For security reasons, it would be a good idea to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.7 now.
True, it's been less than 2 weeks since they last released version 2.0.6, but if you did upgrade recently to 2.0.6 then you just need to overwrite these six files and you WP blog will be upgraded to 2.0.7 (in just [...]

SEO Friendly URLs: Just A Myth?

Does it really help to set search engine friendly URLs for your WordPress permalinks? For example, will you get SEO points if your post looks like http://www.example.com/article-title rather than http://www.example.com/?p=1234 ? Find out now as we bust the SEO friendly URL myth.

Simple Recent Comments Plugin

I like the Simple Recent Comments Plugin because it allows you to quickly see newly added comments, while improving your site's visibility in the search engines.

Do All Your Posts Look Identical In Google?

Does Google list your WordPress posts with different titles but with identical descriptions?
For example, if you visit Google and search for site:www.example.com, what do the search results show?
If the descriptions all look the same, you can edit your WP Theme's header.php file and remove the line that shows
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
When you do [...]