WordPress SEO : Adding and managing Meta-tags (keywords & description)
Meta-tags aren't as important as they use to be, but they're still an SEO factor that might help boost things up a bit. Some smaller search-engines rely on meta-tags and some of the big search-engines still use the description meta-tag in SERP when displaying your Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Optimize the WordPress Page Titles
Page-titles is one of the most important Search Engine Optimization (SEO) factors. WordPress out-of-the-box page-titles behavior is not optimal and WordPress page-titles SEO can be improved dramatically. Page-titles are easy to optimize by quickly tweaking Continue Reading →
April 2007 Google Page Rank update in progress
The Google Page Rank update for April 2007 is underway. Google's Datacenters are currently slowly updating to the new Page Rank results. Google Page Rank updates mean little for SERP, but are usually celebrated throughout the websphere and the blogsphere as Continue Reading →
Drupal : Change DB and table collation to Unicode (UTF-8)
Drupal supports Unicode (UTF-8) out of the box and so Unicode should be used for all your Drupal installations. Problem is, some things you do with your Drupal installation might result in a database or a table that have non-unicode collation. Here are Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Optimize your WordPress theme headings (h1, h2, h3)
Headings (H1, H2, H3) are an important SEO factor that is often not optimized in WordPress themes. There is a common agreement that a right headings design make a big difference for search engines as the search engines rely on headings to understand what content Continue Reading →
The external links dilemma : How to mark, preview, open-new and AJAX your outgoing links
External links are always a dilemma as a user that follows an external link using a simple click will leave your site. Can the visitors know what is an internal link and an external link? Do your visitors know that they're leaving the site and when they do Continue Reading →
Content duplication, redirecting and other tips for using Feedburner feeds
Using Feedburner? then you should disable your feeds from search engine indexing. After you're done tweaking your robots.txt to avoid content duplication and sorting your .htaccess to setup all the redirects you should also take care of the content duplication Continue Reading →
Joomla SEO : SEO friendly URL structure
The URL structure is an important factor in SEO and user friendliness, and Joomla's default structure is lacking. Alledia asks "What is the best URL setup for Joomla and why?" and does an incredible job of detailing all the options for optimizing the Joomla Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found headers are not OK
WordPress also has "404 not found" issues. In the last post we discussed "Drupal SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found/Forbidden headers are not OK and custom 404 pages" but it seems that this problem persists across CMSes, like Wordpress, that fail to return Continue Reading →
Drupal SEO : Verifying 404 Not-Found/Forbidden headers are not OK and custom 404 pages
Search engines care about dead pages in your site that were not found, so that those can be differentiated from the rest of the site. Search engines expect a "404 not found" message, and you probably rely on Drupal to support that. Are you really sure Continue Reading →