Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

The Woes of WordPress

Since converting back to WordPress I’ve been having some difficulties with my site. It’s not the fault of WordPress per se (I just liked the sound of the title) but rather my inefficient system, and my impatience.
In my haste to get the live WP install up and running, I temporarily dropped some of the functionality [...]

 

Help Your Friends Rank Better

One of the quickest ways to make me smile is to link to my blog. I love the traffic — whether it’s 1 click-through or 100 — and I love the little bit of Google juice you’re passing my way. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the quickest ways to make me cringe because most people [...]

 

Two Fingers to PPPers

This month, Google has finally given word on the recent controversy regarding the dropping of PageRank amongst those who sell links. As well as an update on the official Google blog, Matt Cutts (that guy who works for Google) has composed an interesting and informative post on the subject (Selling links that pass pagerank.)
To [...]

 

Improving SEO with WP Plugins

SEO, or ‘Search Engine Optimisation’, is the process of altering your pages to maximise the chance of being listed in a search engine. Based on the knowledge that you must mention a word to begin ranking for it, logic dictates that further mentions of the same word can only increase your SE ranking. (Those of [...]

 

Google PageRank and Nofollow

Nearly 3 years ago, Google released their plans to implement the rel attribute value nofollow in an attempt to combat spam on weblogs and other sites. Almost straight away, I posted my thoughts and went about hacking WordPress — which was my CMS of choice at the time — to remove any occurrence of the [...]