Search Engine Optimization

Crafty Sitemap Building

March 5, 2010 by Lee hodson 2 Comments

The Sitemap is the Holy Grail of a website. It's the sheet (or sheets) of xml that new webmasters don't know to use and some experienced webmasters neglect to create. Consider that every website has a front, a back, a mouthpiece, a gang of security guards and a guide. Visitors see the front, the webmaster uses the backend to create the front, the RSS feed tells the world what's happening at the website, robots.txt and other little bits help protect it, and the sitemap guides search engine spiders around the it. Usually, if you use a content management system (CMS) you will be blessed … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: EasyGuides, Software, Web Development Tagged With: download, free sitemaps, scriptilitious, Search engine optimization, Site map, Sitemap, sitemap creation, sitemap generation, sitemap scripts, sitemap utilities, Sitemaps

The Most Impressive WordPress Theme Bar None

December 24, 2009 by Lee hodson 8 Comments

Updated Wed, 3rd Feb. 2010 We Wordpress bloggers are a funny lot. We style our sites with a theme, we edit it to get it how we want it, we think it's perfect and then we see another theme that's even more perfect so we start over again. Some of us even go so far as to learn to create our own "perfect" themes only to decide that the next pre-made one we see is even better. I suppose we just get bored very quickly. Well I know I do; and I get very annoyed with myself because each time I use a new theme I have to set it up to work with my plugins, ad server, widgets and content styling. So it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress, Wordpress Tagged With: Add new tag, configure, customizable, customize, features, Personalization, Search engine optimization, suffusion, Wordpress, Wordpress themes

Rocket Science Plugins For WordPress Autobloggers

December 9, 2009 by Lee hodson 5 Comments

Every now and then you will need to automate part or all of your blog posting. You might want to create a blog that posts from an RSS feed provided by one of your sponsors or you might want to schedule posts from a csv file created by yourself. Whatever your reason for creating an autoblog or splog, you can easily put your blog into autopilot mode with the addition of a few plugins. I've written and developed several blogs to sell affiliate products and it's only through experience that I'm now armed with the knowledge needed to create a blog that runs itself with minimal input from me. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EasyGuides, Wordpress Tagged With: autoblogging, automated blogging, feed distributors, RSS, Search engine optimization, splog, Syndication and Feeds, website

101 Incredibly Good WordPress Plugins

September 16, 2009 by Lee hodson 19 Comments

So you've just installed your shiny new Wordpress blog and you know it's going to make you into the next Internet sensation but your wondering 'What's next? How can I make this blog MY blog? How can get it to do everything I want to do? Well, how about some customization to make that blog YOUR blog. Customizing Wordpress is really easy. Want a new theme? Visit your Dashboard, click 'Add New Themes' under 'Appearance' in the left hand menu then click 'search'. Don't worry about entering search terms or specifying any requirements. Just click 'search', find a new theme, preview it and install it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: auto blogging, blog layout, really useful plug ins, RSS Syndication, search engine optimisation, Search engine optimization, seo, social broadcasting, user interaction, wordpress addons, wordpress plugins

How to Rank Highly in the Search Engines

August 19, 2009 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

Access to your website is primarily through the search engines. Therefore, your site needs to be found by the top search engines such as Yahoo and Google. These search engines can be your best ally in generating Internet traffic. As well as leading to more sales, it provides free advertisement of your business or service. Search Engine Optimisation, SEO, is the technique of making your website rank highly in search engine databases according to the relevance to the user’s search. To be rank highly with search engines, you need to have articles and keywords based on the words that users … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Web Development Tagged With: keyword, Meta element, search engine, Search engine optimization, seo, website