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20 of the Best SEO Plugins for WordPress

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:57:19 +0000

With more than 120 million blogs in existence, how do people find YOUR content on the Internet? The key starts with great search engine optimization SEO, which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries.

You can blog your heart out, but if you don’t have good SEO, then odds are you won’t have many readers. Luckily, the WordPress plugin community values SEO and has developed a number of plugins to help. Here are 20 of the best SEO plugins to help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more.

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The Evolving State Of Social Media & SEO

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:22:08 +0000

The thumbprint of social media on search engine optimization is evolving. It used to be that the big rage was figuring out how to develop link bait that had a strong chance of making the front page of Digg, Reddit, or other similar social news sites. The results were good, mostly in terms of getting a volume of links to a page on your site.

This is still a great tactic, but social media can do so much more today. For example, with Twitter or Facebook it is possible to use networking and information sharing techniques to build high quality links. I have seen sites from a number of different spaces use Twitter effectively as a PR outreach mechanism.

This new type of PR has become a new technique for link building and promotion. However, fast forwarding from today, there is the widely held belief in the SEO community that social media will be a major source of ranking signals for the search engines in the future

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SEO: Essential to Survival – Entrepreneur.com

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:56:39 +0000

In the realm of e-commerce, one of the top marketing tools a company has is a Google ranking. The difference between a page 1 or page 2 search engine ranking can be the difference of tens of thousands of dollars of revenue for a company.

Because of this, companies are allocating more budget space than ever toward search engine optimization SEO, the strategy and process of improving the volume of traffic to a website by improving the search rankings of various search engines like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask and MSN.

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Best WordPress Plugins

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:01:55 +0000

What are the best WordPress Plugins? There are four WordPress plugins that I can’t live without. They are:

Akismet — the only way to stop spam comments from ruining your blog. Akismet is very accurate and works like a charm.

Google Analytics for WordPress — I used to cut and paste the Google Analytics script into the footer of my blog, but then you have to worry about it every time you change your theme. By using a WordPress Plugin, you can change themes without worrying about changing the Google Analytics script.

Google XML Sitemaps – This is a very handy WordPress Plugin not just for creating the XML sitemap every time you make a change to your blog, but also for notifying the major search engines of the change.

All in One SEO Pack — It takes a little work to fully put this plugin to use, but it is very helpful in allowing you to set the title tag for each post and each page, including your main page. The title tag seems to be the most important one for search engines in identifying what a page is all about, and this plugin lets you tailor the title tag as well as other parameters.

What about Google AdSense or other advertising-related plugins? I usually put the AdSense script in a text widget, so I don’t use a plugin for this.