Google is the world leader in online search currently. Going by the market share, it is clear why most…
Read full postThe nofollow tag was introduced by Google as a means of combating spam. The theory goes like this - Google search bots do not credit any links with a rel=”nofollow” tag attached to them. Google advised webmasters to nofollow all the unwanted, unrelated links so that Google could improve their searches, by eliminating any false links.
That is just the theory. In reality, spammers have taken it…
Read full postDuplicate content is a serious issue for all WordPress blogs, and most bloggers now employ different methods to show partial content. The only blogs with good search rankings which employ full posts, are usually authority blogs, which are labelled as safe and authoritative by Google’s algorithm.
Plugins are a popular method to reduce duplicate content. However, plugins are not fully optimized, and consumes more server resources…
Read full postEvery blogger has heard of the term SEO. SEO blog category is among the fastest growing - you have to look no further than the number of authority blogs that cover the topic extensively. Having some SEO knowledge is essential for every blogger to improve his luck with search engines. More organic traffic is important for blogs, especially those monetized by pay-per-click schemes.
SEO has two…
Read full postThe default permalink structure of WordPress is very ugly, and is a pile of meaningless jumbo, like this - http://blogname.com/?p=xxx, where xxx is the number of post. It is obvious that it does not help the search rankings in anyway, as one of the most important values in SERPs is the keywords in URL. If your permalink is just the blog name+post ID, what does the…
