WordPress SEO for Beginners – The Blog Oh! Blog Way
The Blog Oh presents to you the very first WordPress SEO guide for beginners – The Blog Oh! Blog way. It can be considered as a crash course for all the people who are struggling to get better search engine results with their WordPress blogs. In this e-book, he will guide you how to rapidly configure your WordPress blog with maximum SEO benefits. Even WordPress veterans can benefit from the tips as they might be missing out on a few points. I am distributing this e-book free of charge just to say thanks to the lovely WordPress community and of course as someone once said, WordPress is a magic CMS!!
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Tags: Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Wordpress
Search Engine Optimization for WordPress
WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database.
WordPress comes with several built in search optimization tools, including the ability to use .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks, blogrolling, and pinging. There are also a number of third party plugins and hacks which can be used for search engine optimization (SEO).
However, once you start using various WordPress Themes and customizing WordPress to meet your own needs, you may break some of those useful search engine friendly features. To maintain your WordPress site’s optimal friendliness towards search engine spiders and crawlers, here are a few tips: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Wordpress
All in One SEO Pack – WordPress Plugin
Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog …
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Contributions: We appreciate all donations. Contributors such as semvironment PPC Management help keep the plugin free for the WordPress and Open Source community.
This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for WordPress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.
How to use it
Here is a list of the most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed by this WordPress SEO plugin. You might want to visit Options – All in One SEO to tweak the default options.
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Tags: All in One SEO Pack, SEO, Wordpress Plugins
4 Exceptional Commercial WordPress Themes
May 27, 2009 Wordpress
WordPress has not enjoyed a large community of commercial theme designers. You can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a free WordPress theme, and most of the successful bloggers who do use a commercial theme paid for a one-off design, or had one made for them gratis. More and more CMS style WordPress themes are starting to show up, the majority of them are commercial.
Why pay for a theme when there are so many free ones? Why pay for a theme that someone else can purchase and use? I’ll tell you why after the jump…
There are an awful lot of commercial themes out there that look no different or better than most free themes, and offer no functionality that can’t be had in a free theme. Forget about them.
The newspaper and magazine style layout is one area where you are getting more for your money, because they allow WordPress site designers to do things with their content that a two or three column traditional blog design won’t do. I took a look around to see what was happening with WordPress CMS style theme design, and while there still aren’t an overwhelming number of options, a few are popping up. I submit the following as 4 Exceptional Commercial WordPress Themes:
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Tags: WordPress Themes
15 Great Examples of Cloned WordPress Themes
May 27, 2009 Wordpress
Cloning popular websites into WordPress Themes has become a popular phenomenon. Possible that this is due that many are interested in such type of themes. Everyday you can see a lot of requests on different forums like: “I want a WordPress Theme like this site …”, and which led to the specialization of some WordPress Market Places, such as StyleWP, which are dedicated in creating WordPress Themes inspired by popular websites.
WPSN Theme – clone of ESPN
Theme info Demo View Original Site
The New Yorker Theme – clone of NYTimes.com
Tags: WordPress Themes
10 of the Best WordPress 2.7 Compatible Themes
Apr 17, 2009 Wordpress
WordPress 2.7 completely overhauled the admin area of your blog, so isn’t it time you treated yourself with an overhaul of the front end also?
Why not pick something radically different than the usual blog look? Not only can you have a blog that stands out, you can completely change the function of WordPress to be a photoblog or a CMS, the possibilities are pretty much limitless with this powerful program. Here are 10 of the best themes to choose from.
What are some of your favorite non-traditional themes?
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Tags: WordPress Themes
20 of the Best SEO Plugins for WordPress
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.
Have another SEO plugin to recommend? Tell us more about it in the comments.
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Tags: SEO, Wordpress Plugins
30+ Must Have WordPress Plugins – Top WordPress Plugins 2009
Mar 3, 2009 Wordpress
Here is the most comprehensive list of all the WordPress plugins you need as of today to maximize the potential of your own blog. For months, I’ve been able to bookmark hundreds of plugins, and now I’ve done all the work for you by sorting the best plugins you only need to truely leverage WordPress! In no particular order, here they are!
All in One SEO Pack
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Optimizes your WordPress blog for search engines by Automatically optimizing your titles and META tags.
IntenseDebate
http://intensedebate.com/
Replaces default comment system with advanced commenting, threaded replies, karma points (not for individual comments), Gravatars, RSS, ability to reply to comments from email (great to reply from your Blackberry), all in one management from the website for users. It also comes with the optional Intense Debate Top Commentators sidebar widget to display your top commentators, great to encourage commenting (however, the Disqus one below is a lot more comprehensive).
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http://disqus.com
Replaces your comment template with the more advanced Disqus comment system. Disqus is also the only system to support Facebook Connect out of the box. I’ve contacted IntenseDebate directly and they told me there is no current plan to support Facebook Connect. Disqus also features RSS, Gravatars, threaded comments, comment karma, and lets you easily see comments made by the same user on other sites. I prefer Disqus as it offers Facebook Connect support out-of-the-box that could help you tap into the Facebook community. Disqus also features top commentators, recent comments widgets. Also, with Disqus you can enable video comments with seesmic.
Tags: Wordpress Plugins
50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes
Feb 18, 2009 Wordpress
Today I want to introduce to you 50 WordPress Themes that collected by Six Revisions.
There are many talented designers out there that choose to provide WordPress themes for free. Most of the time, the only small favor they ask you is that you attribute the design to them and link back to their site (a very reasonable request).
In this collection, you’ll find 50 excellent, high-quality, free WordPress themes. These themes range from being elaborate and colorful to being clean and simple so that you may find one that suits your design tastes.
Color Paper
Tags: WordPress Themes
Rotate Banners with the Max Banner Ads WordPress Plugin
Dec 25, 2008 Wordpress
This is the review of Max Banner Ads written by WordPress Hack.
Statistics have long shown that rotating your advertising or affiliate banners can decrease advertising blindness and increase clicks. More clicks makes bloggers happy and advertisers happy!
To get an idea what this plugin is about, you really need to click over and check out the video demonstration that comes with it, but I will attempt to explain it here. Max Banner Ads sort of works like the Shylock AdSense WordPress plugin in that it requires no code hacking. You actually control your advertisements from the WordPress dashboard.
Max Banner Ads allows you to rotate several banners in a single spot or multiple spots, and you can choose from several locations, including your header, sidebar (using widgets), footer, or even within your posts. Want to place it only in the second post? You can do that as well!
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Tags: Wordpress Plugins
