Tag Archives: SEO

Are you suffering from Google Fear?

Def: “A crippling fear of updating your website home page for fear of adversely affecting your Google search ranking & traffic”. You built your website a couple of years back, you’ve spent time (possibly money) getting your Seach Engine Optimisation right, and you’re proud of your Google traffic and page rank. You know that the copy [...]
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Wordpress SEO: Beyond Plugins (part 2)

In my previous post on Wordpress SEO, I looked at how you can switch the relative importance in Google’s eyes of your blog name and description. In this post I’ll look at how we can change our page titles to make them more SEO friendly without messing up our website navigation.  One of my (very few) [...]
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Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

Thanks to Thomas from Luxury Normandy Gite for the idea for this post.  Once you understand that Google pagerank flows DOWN links, you begin to re-evaluate the links that you have on your website or blog. For example, if a vacation rentals directory insists on a reciprocal link, are you going to give them a ‘follow’ [...]
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Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack

There are a huge range of SEO plugins for Wordpress, but I like this one as it focuses on the things I believe to be important in SEO, and ignores the rest.  Most Wordpress themes are designed with SEO in mind, and certainly Wordpress, with it’s pings, linking structure, text focused content and customised URL structure [...]
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