Archive for Archive for October, 2008
Community, Self-Respect, and Free WordPress Themes
A major announcement that could turn the free WordPress theme community on its head. Finally, free premium-quality themes are back!
WordPress 2.7 Admin Sneek-Peek
Check out this sneek-peek at the new design for the WordPress 2.7 dashboard interface.
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Deep Linking
You might have noticed that throughout this series on WordPress SEO, I’ve been doing something rather peculiar. I’ve been linking to my own content far more than I’ve been linking out. Now, this isn’t because I’m a stingy linker. I just happen to have a goal in the methodology I’m using in this series with [...]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Keyword Density
By utilizing the practice of Keyword Density, we can improve our rankings for the keywords we’re targeting. In this post, I give you a few tips for implementing a keyword density strategy.
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - META Keywords
How to use WordPress tags as META Keywords for Search Engine Optimization.
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - META Descriptions
Want to know how to control how search engines display your content on their results pages? Then check out this tip in our WordPress SEO Series!
An Easy Way To Get the Contents of a Custom Field
If you do any hardcore WordPress coding, then you’re probably aware of Custom Fields and the unlimited possibilities they offer you as a WordPress designer or developer. For instance, I use custom fields as a means of attaching a feature image and thumbnail to posts in my Proximity News Theme.
But, they can be a bit [...]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Optimized Heading Tags
Last year I read an article at Chris Pearson’s website that absolutely changed the way I looked at markup standards and WordPress SEO. Seriously, up until that point, I was convinced that SEO was a bunch of garbage for blackhat guys who were looking to game the system and cheat the rest of us. [...]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Optimized Titles
Arguably, one of the most important elements of a website from an SEO perspective is what comes between the <title></title> tags in the header of your page. Take a look at any search result page in Google and you’re probably looking at a list of websites with big blue links … and the text of [...]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Keyword-Rich Permalinks
WordPress.org describes permalinks as “the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings.”
But permalinks themselves won’t help if you haven’t optimized them. Understanding the role your permalinks play in your WordPress SEO starts with understanding the methods for permalink optimization. Keyword-rich permalinks, along with the other [...]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Indexing Control
OK, so you’ve got yourself an XML Sitemap, and you’ve told Google where to find your sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. So far, you’re well on your way to optimizing your WordPress site.
The next thing in your journey to the ultimate in WordPress SEO is telling the Search Engines what they need to index.
Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO - Google Webmaster Tools
In my last post in this WordPress SEO series, we covered how to use the XML-Sitemaps plugin so you could generate a sitemap for your WordPress site. Today, we’re going to cover the best way to get Google to recognize that sitemap and start crawling your site!
Premium or Freemium?
Quite a few months ago, I made a proposition to my readers. I put a call out for great designers, loyal to the idea of Open Source software, to contact me and collaborate on an idea that I thought would make many users in the WordPress community very happy.
Today, I want to put out a [...]
