Posts Tagged ‘Blog’
Say No To NoFollow!
October 3rd, 2008 • seo, wordpress
Tags: backlink, Blog, comment, internet marketing, link building, link exchange, link popularity, nofollow, search engine, search engine optimization, search engine ranking, seo, submit url, u comment i follow, web promotion, wordpress, Wordpress Plugins
Say No To NoFollow
nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.
This is what Wikipedia says about nofollow attribute. It means that, if you use nofollow attribute in your links, search engine spiders will not use that link in target site’s ranking calculations. Under normal terms if a site links to your page, it’ll add some value to your page’s ranking. However if that site add a nofollow attribute, than that value will not be counted by search engines. After some time, spammers realized that they can build a large link set just posting automatic comments to random blogs or adding links to wikipedia. To remedy this situation, authorities suggested to add a nofollow attribute automatically to the links in comments etc. However it seems that this doesn’t work any more. Spammers still post automated comments. For wordpress - and most of popular content managements systems - the best way to keep spam away is comment moderation. For the search engine optimization view, allowing do-follow comments will encourage your readers to drop comments since each comment will be counted as a backlink to their site. So no need to talk more about the benefits of dofollow links : ) Just say no to nofollow!
U Comment I Follow
For Wordpress you can use the NoFollow-Free plugin to change the Wordpress’ default behaviour.
On Sugar Blogging Platform
September 21st, 2008 • general, wordpress
Tags: Blog, blog theme, blogging software, create blog, onsugar, search engine optimization, seo, sugar, website marketing, website promotion, wordpress
OnSugar
I noticed that I missed an article on TechCrunch which is about Sugar Inc. They have launched a new blogging service OnSugar.com. Of course I give it a try, created a couple of blogs - yep, it’s free - and even wrote a test post about RunSEORun.com. At first glance it seems a little ‘wordpress’ to me, then I dive deep and sees that at least the underlying interface is Wordpress-like. ‘Add Link’ pop-up was very familiar. It has a clean admin panel, not hard to get used to it. However there’s much work to do. At least they need to put a RSS link in blog templates by default. I really couldn’t find that. I created some generic named blogs, may be they will be of some use later.
You should give it a try as well.
First Steps
September 16th, 2008 • 3 comments seo, wordpress
Tags: Blog, blog site, blog templates, blog themes, blogging, dynamic url, free blog, free wordpress, how to wordpress, htaccess, permalinks, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, seo optimization, wordpress, wordpress plugin
Here are the first steps that I’ve followed to make this blog run:
- Download & Install WordPress
- Configure Akismet
- Download & Install Sans-Serif Racer wordpress theme.
After these steps, I’ve configured WordPress to use permalinks. WordPress uses some dynamic url structure by default. It looks like (http://www.runseorun.com/?p=7). So I changed this to (http://www.runseorun.com/2008/09/16/run-seo-run). By doing this I’ve added more keywords to urls. Also it has a cleaner look. Anyway, everyone knows that permalinks are better than dynamic urls. So I will use them as well from now on. If you like too, just go to ‘Settings > Permalinks’ under the admin panel. Don’t forget to set correct permissions to .htaccess file. For more information refer to WordPress permalink documentation.
