Social Media SEO
In honor of the SOPA blackout, somone released a SOPA blackout plugin for WordPress. You just install the plugin and enable it to add a temporary 503 status. The page appears to be blacked out with a message about SOPA. Download your copy here. Adds temporary 503 status and customizable page on your site to […]
When I started this blog nearly 2 years ago now, I wasn’t 100% sure where it was going to go and what I was going to do with it. Things grew slowly, as I’m sure you could image. After all, I’m not exempt from the standard track that nearly all blogs take. But after a […]
I just finished reading a post about an SEO strategy for WordPress called PageRank Sculpting. The post talked about how you wanted to add a “no follow” attribute to categories and tags in order to prevent giving away PageRank unnecessarily and drive more PR (PageRank) juice to the posts of your blog. I have to be […]
As a follow up to my article yesterday talking about how the SEO benefits of WordPress 3.2 (Gershwin), I wanted to show you something that I found very interesting as a message in my Google Webmaster account for this site. There was a message, directly from Google Webmaster themselves, where they recognized I was running […]
Whenever I’m asked about SEO and how to get higher rankings in Google, one of the first things I tell people is that they need to rebuild their sites in WordPress. And with the latest version of WordPress – WordPress 3.2 – this is more true now than it’s ever been. WordPress 3.2 – the […]
Facebook just introduced their new Facebook Send button that allows you to share content as a Facebook message to select friends or groups on Facebook. I promised in my article announcing the Facebook Send button that I would figure out how to integrate it into WordPress – and to keep my promise, that’s exactly what […]
WordPress announced today that update version 3.1.1 is now available for download or automatic update from your WordPress dashboard. The new version 3.1.1 addresses, according to the WordPress blog, nearly 30 security issues identified in the WordPress 3.1 update. Some of the major updates include: Some security hardening to media uploads Performance improvements Fixes for […]