Wordpress
Top methods for keeping your WordPress installation and WordPress plugins up-to-date
Keeping your WordPress installation and plugins updated is an important yet annoying task. Following and the news on WordPress releases, monitoring the versions for the dozens of plugins installed, and then going through the upgrade can be very time Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
WordPress SEO : Fix the WordPress default permalink duplicate behavior
Even if you do have the right WordPress permalink structure, WordPress wrongly treats a path with or without a trailing backslash the same way, although some search engines, like Google, see that as duplicate content. So it's not only that WordPress Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : Change to a new permalink structure while maintaining the old one
Many WordPress bloggers that start off blogging without much knowledge of SEO, soon realize realize that the WordPress permalink structure they chose wasn't well-optimized for search-engines. Although being aware of the problem, some chose to stick Continue Reading →
WordPress SEO : using robots.txt to avoid content duplication
Google really doesn’t like content duplication on sites and so it is advisable to prevent the Google crawler from reaching the same content on your site from more than one url. Since WordPress does offer many ways of reaching your content, you should block Continue Reading →