Definitive Sticky Posts Guide for WordPress 2.7
As the blogosphere is abuzz about all the cool new features in WordPress 2.7, I’ve seen very few (if any) good posts on the new Sticky Posts feature that will allow you to take any story, or stories, you’ve published and place them at the top of your homepage without editing the timestamp. This new feature will allow you to take posts that you’re especially proud of and display them for all the world to see for as long as you want.
But for many theme and plugin developers, and even users who may want to do a little DIY theme hacking, there is very little documentation for getting the feature set up to do the things you want it to. That’s where this guide comes in. Continue Reading…
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 links. That strategy is called deep linking, and it is one of the best ways to not only increase SEO, but also drive visitors deeper into your blog or website.
Deep linking is the art of linking relevant keywords to related content within your own site. Essentially, you are leveraging your own site’s equity for gain. What gain? In order to understand what is to be gained, one must first understand how links affect SEO. Continue Reading…
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 cumbersome to use throughout your theme because of the ridiculous amount of code that it takes just to pull the data out and display it. Continue Reading…
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 those links is none other than the text Google found between the <title></title> tags when crawling the page.
So, this next post in our WordPress SEO series will cover how to control what gets displayed in that section of our site, and thus not only controlling what the Search Engines display as the title of our post/page in results pages, but also leveraging a powerful tool for ranking for those keywords we’re targeting. Continue Reading…
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 ingredients in this series, will help search engines determine the kind of content in your posts/pages, and rank them accordingly. Continue Reading…
