Archives for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

Wordpress : Turning 404 not found random visitors to blog readers

By fiLi • Aug 11th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

404 pages are important. One of the biggest mistakes that blogs and website owners make is disregarding that fact and ignoring the 404 pages, thereby maybe losing all 404 incoming visitors. And that’s a lot of visitors to lose.
If you’re using Wordpress, then to get a sense of just how many visitors you’re losing, there’s [...]



Making the most out of the Google and Yahoo Image Search traffic

By fiLi • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

Google Image Search traffic is not to under-estimated. In some of the relatively busy sites I run traffic from Google Image Search accounts for almost 10% of the incoming traffic. The Image Search folks usually do not stick around very long, but there are a few quick tips you can implement to make the most [...]



Automatically repair and backup the CMS or blog database

By fiLi • Jul 11th, 2007 • Category: CMS, Wordpress

There are endless ways to backup your blog’s or your CMS’ database. Some use platform specific plugins, some run thing manually, many - unfortunately - don’t bother backing up their databases at all. If you don’t back up your database - you should, it’s not a complicated thing to set up.
I personally prefer the method of [...]



Promoting the Israeli independent blogosphere - the Wordpress SEO review project

By fiLi • May 28th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

Got a blog? Need a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) review for your Wordpress blog? This post is a studycase showing an overall SEO analysis for selected Wordpress blogs.
Dakar, a blogger who’s leading the Wordpress based community in Israel, started to offer a blog review service for Israeli bloggers, focusing on design (reviews done so far [...]



Wordpress SEO : Using excerpt, robots.txt and noindex meta-tag for duplicate content in index, archives and categories

By fiLi • May 27th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

Wordpress blogs have duplicate content issues, and one of them is allowing reading the same content on both the posts, index page, archives and categories webpages. To avoid search engine penalty it is important to optimize your Wordpress installation so that duplication will be avoided.
There are a few ways to do that :
 
Optimizing using Wordpress excerpt
Instead [...]