A new plugin is on the scene that will be of great interest to any WordPress Multisite owner: Google XML Sitemaps with Multisite Support. It is a modified version of Google XML Sitemaps, written by the same developer. Basically, this plugin creates a sitemap for each of your sites and links it in robots.txt. Why [...]
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Top Search Queries is one of the most useful services provided by Google Webmaster Tools. It provides you with detailed information about when your site pops up in their search engine and what pages are attracting clicks. Specifically, you’ll find out: The total number of Google Web Search queries that returned pages from your site [...]
WordPress’ 3.0 Thelonius release is establishing the platform as an enterprise-class content management system, no longer for blogs and small businesses only. Recent core improvements grant users the ability to create unlimited custom content types without the need for an experienced developer. Multisite management is now built into the WordPress core and can be set [...]
How fast is your site? Your page load speed could be affecting your site rankings on Google, and may be coming soon to other major search engines near you. Beginning in April of this year, Google started factoring page load time into your organic rankings. Google officially summed up the reasoning behind the decision: “Faster [...]
Even if you prefer another search engine and don’t utilize Google’s search engine, you need to be aware of how Google is ranking your site if you want to develop an effective SEO strategy. Google Webmaster Tools will help you improve your site’s visibility in Google search results by acquainting you with exactly how it’s [...]
So you’ve decided to take the leap and get your small business online. The first thing you need to ask yourself when planning your website is why you have decided to create a website in the first place. This is the first installment in a series focused on building a professional and dynamic WordPress site [...]
SEO Smart Links provides an easy way to set up affiliate links using your site’s content and interlink your posts, making your site more readable and SEO friendly at the same time. The plugin allows you to quickly and easily link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments to other relevant or corresponding posts, [...]
You can squeeze a lot more SEO into your posts by remembering to format your content with subheadings, sectioning out different parts of your post and highlighting the substance of each. It also makes your posts more readable. More than likely your title tags will already be written using the h1 tag. It’s important for [...]
SEO for BuddyPress has now been updated for BuddyPress 1.2.x and is packed full of exciting new features. Conventional business sense says that word of mouth is the best way to make your product or service known. This may be true but online it’s doubtful that people will ask their friends for a specific URL [...]
How is it possible to have fresh content publishing from many different sources to your various WPMU blogs? Autoblog is currently the best WPMU plugin available for creating a robust network of syndicated content across multiple blogs. This plugin allows you to set up your own syndication hub without having to mess with cron jobs [...]
