Larger corporate sites may require a highly sophisticated platform like Open Text or IBM Websphere, but most websites can get away with a customized version of WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal. We chose WordPress for its ease of use and customization...
WordPress Homepage: Blog Posts or a Static Page? 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.
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. Find out and write a feature article about them on your blog. And many times they'll drop a note about it on their blog: "I was recently featured on this website.
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. If the blog doesn’t add the markup, you don’t get the credit.
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. I did not know we were planning a blog about the bible.
WordPress is fantastic, free, and open source. However, out of the box, WordPress is not as SEO friendly as you'd think. This guide will show you the necessary steps to optimize a WordPress website, focusing on modifications that apply to SEO.
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. There are lots of choices, but if you're not very tech-savvy, WordPress would probably be the simplest choice.
If you’re running WordPress, there are a couple of plugins you can use to asses word count for every document on your site: Ask yourself this: are you publishing content everyday on your blog, sometimes twice a day?
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. Whether you measure your own blog, or a host of...
Of the ones that have been migrated, millions are still awaiting app recovery of multi-media support such as Slideshare and WordPress blog content. Because marketing and branding professionals are seen as more of thought-leaders, these business...
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. For example, in the first three months you might map out to produce 40 pieces of content total...
If you don’t use WordPress, you can use a tool to mark up the data and add it to your site. If you're using WordPress, definitely use the Schema Creator plugin by Raven Tools. If you use WordPress, use the WP Customer Reviews plugin.
I’ve launched some very successful websites on WordPress and Magento (websites that do well with SEO), but you have to find the platform that is robust enough for your needs, while still having the ability of being SEO friendly.
If you’re running WordPress, check out ShareBar for adding buttons and counts. However, if you don’t operate on WordPress, each social site has a developer’s page where you can grab share button codes, like this page for developers on Facebook for...
Get them up to speed on WordPress. I favor writers who have their own blogs and are familiar with WordPress so I don't have to: That way, we can get a sense of how organized they are, how much they pay attention to detail (hyperlinking correctly...
Here are a few other interesting tidbits from the survey: percent of SEOs use Google Analytics, annihilating all the rest; the next most used analytics tool is WordPress Stats, at just 16 percent.percent of respondents spend more than $1,000 per...
WordLift is a WordPress plugin that analyzes text and automatically abstracts entities, which the user can either apply or disregard. The blog does a good job keeping tabs on early commercial efforts in the space as well as providing ongoing...
