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Top Thee SEO plugins for WordPress

Posted by on November 22, 2011 No comments

It is a fact that by using WordPress as a main platform for website building or blogging, you significantly enhance your chances of ranking high on the search engine result pages. Major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing simply love the way WordPress functions, thereby making it an ideal platform if you are interested in increasing your online visibility and attracting more customers. With the help of few WordPress plugins, you can rank your website even higher on all major search engine result pages.

Application of main SEO principles to the blog structure, website and various blog posts is necessary for making it more prominent on major search engines. This will automatically enhance the traffic coming to the website or blog and provide you with a much enhanced visibility.

Now, WordPress plugins are tiny programs, few of them free, while others paid and can do various things Read more »

The Importance of Original Content on Blogs for Google

Posted by on November 16, 2011 No comments

More and more people are earning money from blogs. You just need to set up your blog with ads on it to be able to make money. You will need content on your blog that is written in a way that it will show up in Google searches so get enough traffic to your website to get paid for the advertising. While it might be tempting to use recycled content from other websites, it is very important to only put original content onto your blog.

When you are setting up your blog, you may find that it is time-consuming to generate a lot of content for it. This may leave you tempted to take content from other websites, just so our blog is full when you launch it. This is not the best idea because you will be putting your work out there and it will become apparent that your content is not original. The least of your issues with doing so will be causing readers to not want to come back to your blog.

You may have bigger issues if you don’t use original content for your blog. If the content you took was copyrighted Read more »

Recent SEO news and tips from Matt Cutts

Posted by on November 12, 2011 No comments

There were two recent YouTube updates from Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam prevention team, with some useful and important SEO updates.

First, we will discuss a few items from a live question and answer session with Matt Cutts, from September 11, 2011, and then Matt Cutts’ August 11 video with the answer to the question: “Does Google consider SEO to be spam?”

From the Q&A video, a quick question was “What effect does +1 ranking have on SEO?” Matt’s answer was, “Right now we are still studying it.” He says that Google is very excited about it and expects good things to come from it. A follow up question asked if +1 ratings helped Ads, and the answer was no.

A viewer asked when PageRanks would be updated again. Matt’s answer was that Google runs a script automatically every three months or so, to update the PageRank. In addition to the … Read more »

Stay Away From Link Farms

Posted by on November 9, 2011 No comments

The Internet is full of ads for link exchanges for building backlinks to your websites. If you exchange links with good quality sites with a high ranking it does help increase your sites page rank, but on the other hand if you link to spam sites it could hurt your ranking and possibly get your site banned by Google. It is best to avoid link farms like the plague; here are a few reasons why buying links from these sites are bad.

Link farms are penalized by Google

The recent Google Panda algorithm reset the quality ratings for many sites. Google bots crawl websites for information to discover if a site contains high-quality relevant content and ranks it by how much traffic the site receives. Link farms promise thousands of backlinks for one low price, however these links are from thousands of sites unrelated to your site’s content and therefor will not rank well and may even be penalized.

Linking to sites with no relevance

Linking to sites with unrelated content will not help raise your rating. The best way to build good quality backlinks is to find sites on similar topics and content and … Read more »

The Google “Freshness” Update

Posted by on November 6, 2011 No comments

On November 3, 2011, Google announced their newest algorithm update called the “freshness” update. This update works to move new or “fresh” content to the top of the search pages. Google’s thinking behind this latest update is that users typically desire the newest news rather than older information. When the information is equally relevant to the search, the new algorithm will position the newer information first. This new search algorithm will help to keep Google in its spot as the most used search engine, giving it the edge over competitors like Bing.

Google began its master plan to promote newer information and more relevant topics in 2010 when they … Read more »

Steve Jobs the best 3 things he did at Apple

Posted by on November 4, 2011 No comments

Steve Jobs was a very intelligent man who wanted to share all the fun thoughts that were going on in his head with the world. He had so many bright ideas and wonder ways to incorporate them into our daily lives that he decided not to continue with a college education and hit the ground running with a new company entitled Apple.

The first and most recognizable accomplishment of Steve Jobs was the Macintosh or Mac. This computer was first introduced by Jobs on January 24, 1984. This computer featured a mouse and a graphical user interface. It was the first personal computer to accomplish this. The Mac has grown tremendously including the Mac Pro and the MacBook. These powerful computers are able to complete all kinds of powerful graphics and are even used to create musical compositions and assist with sound … Read more »

Are Godaddy’s SEO services worthwhile?

Posted by on November 3, 2011 No comments

SEO or search engine optimization is critical to any business development. When your business is in a higher position in the search engines, because of revelent backlinks, article directories, and other SEO operations the product or service will be seen regularly. Go daddy uses basic and advanced SEO techniques to help you gain dominance in the niche you have. Go daddy is already an authority on the web for many products and services. So having them as an SEO consultant is a pretty decent idea when you think about the benefits to your search rankings.

They exercise the influence of different types of search engines to help you get the best results. Not every search engine is run the same and not everyone uses the same algorithms to catalogue search engines. For example, Google loves to use back linking.. Back linking from similar content authority with higher page ranks allows goolge to identify your page as an authority on your specific function which results in your links being rated higher.

Other search engines link bing … Read more »

Why people hate facebook

Posted by on October 31, 2011 No comments

Here’s an article written by a friend, remember your audience depening upon what subject your site is about:

If I live to be one hundred I will never understand the fascination with Facebook. I will admit I have a Facebook account. I started it when my son’s college started posting information available primarily on Facebook. I wouldn’t say that I didn’t go willingly, but I didn’t exactly approach it with a lot of enthusiasm. As a very private person I was never intrigued by the thought of posting my every move for the entire world to see. I feel no need whatsoever to announce that I’m “baking cookies for my hubby”, “buying cows on Farmville” or “feeling so sick I could die!”, like so many of my so called friends.

Speaking of Facebook friends, who are all these people anyway? I have never met, and probably will never meet, some of my Facebook friends. Second cousins twice removed, friends of my husband’s uncle, people I may have known in high school; I have no … Read more »

Best 5 Places for Free URL and WordPress Hosting

Posted by on October 28, 2011 No comments

Hosting a website and WordPress is a key part of establishing a web presence online. While there are many places to host websites along with many services that provide this assistance, it can be costly for some people. For those who are looking to have free web hosting and not have to worry about any costs that can add up. There are a good five websites that allow people to host their site for free and allow them to avoid the cost of hosting a website.

The first free wordpress and free hosting site is WordPress itself. The site known as WordPress is the best option for people looking to not only host a site for free but to also get the highest speed for blogs, bandwidth and more disk space. Once you sign up you are able to expand your blog space as much as you … Read more »

Hottest 3 WordPress Templates for Family Sites

Posted by on October 24, 2011 No comments

Website templates are among the integral parts of any website. These are the backgrounds of various sites and give each website its own unique image. With the various templates available all website owners will have a way to distinguish their site and have it stand out among others. There are many themes for websites and one of them is for the family. There are many family templates for various websites including WordPress. By using a distinct three website templates people will be able to have a nice website for their family and/or for businesses to promote their offerings for families.

One of the top three WordPress templates for the family theme is The Only Sunshine. This particular template is very colorful which … Read more »