Basic Tips to Improve WordPress for SEO and the User Experience In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reveals five of the biggest basic SEO mistakes webmasters make, and suggests a few ways to improve your website.
We chose WordPress for its ease of use and customization, and impressive library of open source content management, social, and SEO plugins. Larger corporate sites may require a highly sophisticated platform like Open Text or IBM Websphere, but...
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems available today. In September 2012, it was reported that WordPress powers 1 in 6 websites. As someone who codes within WordPress on a daily basis, it's easy for me to sell WordPress to...
With these tools, you can see how they're executing on mobile (e.g.if they're running jQuery, Google Analytics, Wordpress, etc. Getting the mobile experience wrong can be deadly to your bottom line. You don't turn off customers with a bad mobile...
Yoast’s WordPress plugins also provide some basic help optimizing your content as you're writing for your blog. With the rapid adoption and renewed interest in content, part cause and part consequence of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, search...
Don't just slap your awesome content on a free WordPress theme and expect results. Now, the importance of on-topic links and contextual relevancy is really nothing new. But it's statements like "relevance is the new PR" (emphasis on "new...
For example, if you use WordPress as your CMS, your Analytics plug-in likely only asks for your property ID number and writes the rest of the code for you. People use multiple devices and browsers to surf the web.
Take the easy way out – use a plugin like WordPress SEO by Yoast. The latest version of the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin features an option to add the URL of your Google+ business page. Believe it. If you aren’t on Google+, you're on the path to...
A company has emailed you ranting about the 10,000 backlinks they will get for you in 1 week and the new WordPress they will build for your current 4,381 page website in three days. Many of your customers have posted positive reviews on your Google...
WordPress is fantastic, free, and open source. There is a bug with WordPress where you will end up with 404 errors when trying to access any Category page beyond the first page. However, out of the box, WordPress is not as SEO friendly as you'd think.
There are lots of choices, but if you're not very tech-savvy, WordPress would probably be the simplest choice. I started my first blog on WordPress.com years ago, but once I made the move to self-hosted, I think that's the best way to go.
Repurposed: Used in a number of different formats such as uploading video to YouTube, embedded content in WordPress, posting screen shots from video to Flickr and uploading images and text as a story in PowerPoint on SlideShare or Scribd.
If you’re running WordPress, there are a couple of plugins you can use to asses word count for every document on your site: Last year Google unleashed the most aggressive campaign of major algo updates ever in its crusade to battle rank spam.
I'm a big fan of WordPress. Here is an example of an if statement that can be used on a WordPress PHP website: This hasn't been good news for all the webmasters who have been including a link to their website in the footer of each and every website...
There are applications that help you tag and track various links, WordPress plug-ins for tracking your blog in Google Analytics, and third-party tools to help you create more attractive dashboards. If you use Google Analytics, you likely already...
Of the ones that have been migrated, millions are still awaiting app recovery of multi-media support such as Slideshare and WordPress blog content. Of those, no one except LinkedIn knows who is truly active.
So far, whilst there has been no major functionality change to HitTail, under the new leadership, the software platform now has quick integration with Hubspot, may develop better AdWords integration and a Wordpress plugin will be released next week.
Footnote to this diagnosis step: Some blog software packages, such as WordPress, create lots of category type pages, and these could explain why you have a lot of pages that were Not Selected, but you still need to determine how you want to...
WordPress Editorial Calendar Plugin: This gives the publisher a “bird’s eye view” of your content that allows you to control your long-term strategy. One good place to start is the social media editorial calendar.
Joost, well known Wordpress SEO plugin author and consultant at Yoast takes a slightly different angle saying about rankings, As you may have heard, Google is clamping own on how tool owners use their APIs.