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Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

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If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL’s. Danny Sullivan has an excellent write up on it on Search Engine Land. The basic concept is a story lives at a single URL and gets added to/edited/updated over [...]

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Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

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For this post we’re going to be taking  look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn’t a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.

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Wordpress SEO: How to Use RSS and Scrapers to Build Links

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When you run wordpress or any other blog for that matter, chances are your blog is getting scraped, and re-used without your permission. In this post I’ll show you how you can use this to your advantage to build links with the anchor text of your choice.

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Wordpress SEO: Wordpress Security Why it Matters to SEO

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In recent weeks wordpress security, or more correctly the lack of wordpress security has been getting a lot of attention. While most people consider this a site maintenance issue, it has implications that affect your SEO efforts, in this post I’ll explain why, and look at some things you can do to protect yourself, and reduce the [...]

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Wordpress SEO: How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy

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While there are hundreds of thousands of posts on maximizing external links for your blog, like a red headed step child no one pays much attention to internal links. Internal links can be very powerful in helping you distribute the link equity that those external links bring, and they can decrease your bounce rate and [...]

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Checking for Broken Links and Link Rot and the Importance of Good Site Architecture

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Recently I’ve been experimenting with a plugin for checking broken links, on several of my blogs, and I’m fascinated by what I’ve discovered.

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How to Add a Visual Slider to Thesis

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The following is a tutorial on how to add a dynamic content slider to your Thesis wordpress theme. It’s easily adapted to work with any wordpress blog, but like everything it’s just easier with Thesis

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Thesis Theme for Wordpress Review

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I’ll admit that when I first saw the Thesis wordpress theme I wasn’t really keen on it, in fact I really didn’t see the point. While I’m not a programmer by trade, I know enough HTML, CSS, and PHP to make things happen in the code. However after seeing some of the behind the scenes [...]

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Category SEO For Wordpress Blogs and Ecommerce

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I solved (at least partly) my problem maintaining rankings over time. Old pages that used to get traffic are once again seeing inbound search visits. I did it by tweaking my blog’s category pages, but I think the lessons are also helpful for ecommerce sites.

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Thesis Tutorial – Adding Date Based Triggers to Your Posts

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There are a lot of times when you are working on your blog template where you want things to happen based on how old a post is. This tutorial shows you how to do it. The programming is pretty simple and you don’t have to be using the Wordpress Thesis Theme to do it, but [...]

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Thesis Tutorial – How to Add Adsense Section Targeting

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Using Adsense on your blog usually isn’t the most profitable way to monetize it, but it is fairly quick and easy, which makes it a popular choice for many website owners. Last week I moved one of my commercial blogs to Thesis, and was reminded of the importance of using section targeting on your blog.

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Testing Seesmic Video Comments

May 26, 2008

So I installed the Seesmic video comments plugin and am giving it try. if you’ve got an account and a webcam leave a comment. If you don’t head over to Seesmic and create one. You can get the plugin and try it on your blog as well.
Youtube may be the dominant player in online video [...]

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