Archives for the ‘SEO’ Category

Wordpress SEO : Jump-starting a new blog - from zero to 600 unique visitors/day in one month

By fiLi • Oct 12th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

In the past two months an online colleague of mine and myself have been trying out a new experiment. This colleague is a long time ProBlogger in the China niche that one of my blogs is part of, but does so as part of a blogging network. I suggested we both try and play around [...]



Moving from Blogger-Blogspot to Wordpress the right way : 301 redirect

By fiLi • Oct 10th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

Considering to move from Blogger/Blogspot to Wordpress? good. From an SEO perspective I can’t stress enough how important it is to have your own domain and platform that you can implement your own way. Helping two of my friends do this transition recently, it is extremely important that you do it the right way so that [...]



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 [...]



The dark side of Google - The SERP drop effect of a domain penalty

By fiLi • Jun 13th, 2007 • Category: SEO

Google’s penalties are the dark side of running a website. Google’s penalties cause such a drop in SERP that traffic goes down to almost nothing. There are several kinds of penalties that are speculated to be cause by various reasons. There’s the -30 penalty, -950 penalty and others, and I was “fortunate” to experience one of [...]