Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’
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.
RunSEORun Keyword Plugin For Wordpress
September 26th, 2008 • RunSEORun Wordpress Plugins, seo, wordpress
Tags: increase web traffic, keyword analysis, keyword analyzer, keyword research, keyword seo, RunSEORun Keyword Plugin, search engine optimization, seo, targeted web traffic, web analytics, web promotion, wordpress, wordpress plugin, Wordpress Plugins
Hi,
After I wrote this post, I started to add some keywords using Google Adwords Keyword Tool for every post I wrote. I guess all of you already know about this tool. If you haven’t heard it, just do some googling and you’ll be amazed. Anyway, it starts to be a big burden for me to look for keywords every time I write something. So I created a small plugin for Wordpress that suggests keywords for my post using Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Here is a screen shot of the plugin:
RunSEORun Keyword Plugin For Wordpress
After saving your draft, all you have to do is hitting the “Get Keyword Ideas For This Post” button. And plugin starts to ask Adwords Keyword Tool for suggestions. After a while it populates a large list of keywords. Using the ‘Add’ link at the right side of each keyword you can add that keyword as a tag to your post. So in seconds you’ll have some great tags. I also use ‘All In One SEO Pack’. This plugin adds tags to meta keywords automatically. So you’ll have a greate meta-keywords tag in your page.
I didn’t spend much time on this plugin, so it’ll probably be buggy. At least I can say it works perfect on Wordpress 2.6.2. If you like the plugin and face problems in intallation just drop me a comment and I’ll try to help you.
Installation is easy. All you have to do is unpack the tar.gz file under the wp-content/plugins directory and activate the plugin from the admin panel. After that a box will appear under the visual editor.
Important Note: On your server you have to enable PHP curl extension. Most probably it’s enabled by default, so you don’t have to worry. Another point is with the cookie jar file. An empty file named ‘cookies’ will be under the plugin directory. You have to make sure that this file is writable by your web server.
Just give it a try. I’d love to hear your comments.
Check Point #1: Get 100 Daily Unique Visitors In Ten Days
September 25th, 2008 • 1 comment Uncategorized
Tags: hit counter, increase website traffic, keyword tool, link popularity, search engine optimization, search engine submission, seo, site promotion, submit url, traffic, visitors, web site optimization, web site traffic, Webmaster Tools, website traffic, wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, wordpress templates
Hi,
Let me go over the seo techniques that I’ve applied on this blog and give the results:
- Day - 1: I wrote my first post: Run SEO Run! and a second post about how I configured Wordpress. I changed my blog theme, installed Akismet and configured Wordpress to use permalinks.
- Day - 2: I installed StatCounter plugin and also Google Analytics tracker. I’ve noticed that Wordpress fails for some basic SEO steps like setting up a meta description and keywords. Although meta keywords aren’t as useful as once they are, I considered to provide some good keywords as well. I installed All In One SEO Pack Wordpress plugin and manually corrected the description and keywords of my previous posts. From that day to now, I manually add some popular keywords to every post using Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Lately in the same day I installed another plugin: Google Sitemap Generator. I also submitted my site to Google Webmaster Tools. A couple of days later I’ve noticed that Google bots had visited my site on this day. So it seems that if you like your site to be indexed as soon as possible submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.
- Day - 3: I submitted my sitemap to Live.com Webmaster Center and Yahoo! Site Explorer. Also to see the reactions on my blog, I claimed my blog on Technorati. I still got no visitors.
- Day - 4: I submitted my blog to StumbleUpon. A couple of hours later I got my first visitors from StumbleUpon! After a little happiness I decided to add some of my posts to Del.icio.us. After all it seems that StumbeUpon is the best source to draw traffic to your site quickly.
- Day - 5: I do some house cleaning and this has nothing to do with search engine optimization.
- Day - 6: Gladiator for the eleventh time. That day I noticed that RunSEORun has been added to Google Index. Also I got my first fav on StumbleUpon. It’s six now. If you liked my site why not give my a fav? Also at the same day I’ve created a dummy blog on new blogging platorm: OnSugar.com.
- Day - 7: I wrote a little article on image search optimization. Although I’ve used proper naming and proper images, I haven’t been added to image search. Still no results, still no visitors.
- Day -8: Another article on semantic coding. Since Wordpress uses semantic markups by default, I don’t need to worry. But are you sure you’re choosing correct markups?
This is the 10th day since I’ve opened my blog and I’ve got 91 unique visitors and 146 pageviews just for today. Not bad.
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.
SEO For Wordpress
September 17th, 2008 • 3 comments seo, wordpress
Tags: all one seo, all one seo wordpress, improve search engine ranking, meta tag generator, meta tags, search engine, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search engine optimization marketing, search engine optimization seo, search engine placement, search engine ranking, search optimization, seo, seo search engine marketing, submit to search engines, web site promotion, wordpress, wordpress all one seo pack, Wordpress Plugins
Wordpress
Wordpress - by default - is a good choice for search engine optimization since it provides a clean and powerful interface to search engines to reach the content. However after I installed and configured wordpress, I noticed that some meta tags are missing so I looked for a plugin. If you think that something is missing in Wordpress just do some googling for appropriate plugin. There is always a plugin that do the work you want, believe me. Also you can check the wordpress plugin directory. Anyway, I found the “All In One SEO Pack” plugin for wordpress, a cool plugin that you can use to add flexible meta tags to your blog. After downloading the plugin using this link, I set the home page description meta tag to “RunSEORun.com is a playground for experimenting search engine optimizatioon techniques.” and home page title tag to “Run SEO Run | Experimental Works On Search Engine Optimization”. Also I’ve set up some keywords for main page. I’ve used Google Adwords Keyword Tool to select some popular keywords realted to RunSEORun.com:
“seo, search engine optimization, search engine, search marketing, search engine marketing, web promotion, search engine ranking, web site promotion, website marketing, marketing seo”. After playing a little more, I noticed that this plugin has added a small drop down box below the “Write Post” page in admin panel. It looks like this:
All In One SEO Pack Screenshot
Using this box you can set the page title, description and keywords of a spesific post. After noticing that I updated my previous posts to include some popular keywords using Google Adwords Keyword Tool as I did for homepage. You have to be careful about the tags you’ve added for a specific post. It seems that this plugin uses the tags you’ve provided as well as the keywords you’ve explicitly spesified as keywords meta tag. I found some duplicate keywords in meta tags after update, so I checked the list one more time. From now on I’ll only use wordpress’ default tags and not specify any keywords in plugins box.
As far as I know keywords and description meta tags are no more that valuable to search engines but I believe there is no harm in providing correct tags.
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.
