December 2009

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Sitemap for WordPress Plugin Update

December 27, 2009 in Code, Search Engines by seohub | No comments

Grab the updated plugin for  Google XML Sitemaps by Arne version 3.3.3, which now allows you to include non-WordPress pages on your site to be part of the sitemap for your web site. This is a great addition to the update, previously i had to hard code in pages that where not part of the WordPress infrastructure and each time you changed WordPress content you had to redo the sitemap again.

For a refresh on the previous post on Sitemaps check it out here.

Once in the plug in settings, go to the ‘additional pages’ section and add in your non WordPress URL and select a change frequency time,one last note is that if your blog is not your root directory but something like http://myurl.com/blog/ then once the sitemap is built in the blog directory you need to moved it up to the root directory.

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sitemap-wordpress-plugin

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Feed Validator

December 24, 2009 in RSS by seohub | No comments

How to get your RSS feed validated.

Not too sure if your feed is working?, get it validated here…. http://feedvalidator.org

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Another RSS Feeder – Feedage

December 24, 2009 in RSS, Traffic by seohub | No comments

One other RSS feed directory to get into is http://www.feedage.com, this will spread the content of your site to a wider audience. The current amount of feeds on there is close to 6 million!

So go there, create a free account and how get your RSS feed onto to feedage by using the submit option.

For WordPress users you can add the URL  http://www.feedage.com/submit.php to the Update Services in the Settings > Writing as explained in this RSS ping post. Or you can also add a plugin called Feedage Tracker which will submit your sites RSS feed to Feedage, but you still have to have an account set up on  the Feedage site which is free.

One final note is that if you still want to channel your subscribers through Google’s Feedburner as described here, when entering the feed address use the Feedburner format address; for example this sites’ Feedburner address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/seo-hub - whereas the regular RSS feed address takes the format of…http://www.seo-hub.net/feed/

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Best SEO tool Plugin for WordPress

December 16, 2009 in SEO Techniques, SEO Tools, WordPress by seohub | No comments

Ok hands down the best plugin for WordPress for SEO is Platinum SEO Plugin from Techbliss Online Dot Com, it comes post the previous favourite plugin “All In One SEO” which was discontinued (but is now again supported) and if previously used,  all values entered from All In One can be migrated to Platinum SEO as an option in the plugin. From what i can gather it is the actual author of the previous plugin that now develops the new one.

Anyway the plugin is a “must have” for any serious SEO work, it allows for granular level settings on pages and posts for key meta tags such as title, description and keywords,  as well as follow and index options for robots and options re-writes on titles. Read the rest of this entry »

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What IP belongs to me?

December 16, 2009 in Code by seohub | No comments

Not too sure of your external, public IP address?, can’t find it in the system or in the router…..

http://checkmyip.com/

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Lost for Words 2

December 15, 2009 in Cool Stuff, Keywords, SEO Tips, SEO Tools by seohub | No comments

There is an additional option in the external keyword tool once you have a Google account which allows you to source keywords from a competitors URL or any URL for that matter, which is very cool, not just the keywords in the meta tag but content rich keywords.

To get the option, make sure your signed into your Google account and then try the external Google keyword tool, sometimes you have to try a couple of times to make the option appear. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lost for Words

December 14, 2009 in Keywords, SEO Tips, SEO Tools by seohub | No comments

One invaluable free tool for getting keyword ideas is the external keyword tool from Google. The results are based on Google search results over the prior 12 months but on a monthly basis.

When you first log in depending on where you are geographically, you’ll need to set your preferences in the edit link on the line;

“Results are tailored to English, United States Edit“,

..selecting All Countries and Territories will give you a global idea.

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Flushing the DNS cache

December 7, 2009 in Code, OS X by seohub | 1 comment

When you have the propagation blues:

MS = C:\>ipconfig /flushdns

Linux = /etc/init.d/nscd restart

OSX Leopard + = dscacheutil -flushcache

OSX Leopard – = lookupd -flushcache

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Feedburner Feeding Frenzy

December 7, 2009 in RSS, Traffic by seohub | No comments

So what is a Feedburner feed? How do you get one? and What do you do with it?

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Feedburner Logo

As well as our regular RSS/ATOM/XML web feeds we also have to consider a Feedburner Feed.

I must admit I was a bit baffled about Feedburner when i first heard about it, I mean doesn’t our regular RSS feeds do the job. Well it does, but a Feedburner feed is a smarter way to managing a feed. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lost in the Serps

December 7, 2009 in SEO Tips, SEO Tools, Search Engines by seohub | No comments

How do you find what page your site is ranked or listed on in the Google SERPS?

Well you can do some painstaking trawling through the search result pages and if you’re lower ranked that’s going to take some time and you might even miss it, with a Firefox plug in and a script you can let Google take you there in a click, which is very nice. Read the rest of this entry »

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