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Best SEO tool Plugin for WordPress

December 16, 2009 in SEO Techniques, SEO Tools, WordPress | 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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Special Search Suggestabox!

November 30, 2009 in SEO Techniques, SEO Tips, SEO Tools, Search Engines | No comments

C’mon People – Suggestabox!

You can use certain commands when searching to find out some relevant details about a web site, here are some of the useful ones, these can be especially helpful in analysing your site and your competitors:

site:yourwebsite.com - This will show you a list of all the indexed pages with the search engine

link:yourwebsite.com – This shows a list of all the inbound or baclinks to the web site

allintitle:your title words here – This will show you a list of sites that use all of the keywords you specify in the page title

intitle:keyword – This will show you a list of websites that are using your keyword in the title

allintext:your keywords here – This will show you a list of sites that use all of the keywords you specify in the text

intext:keyword - This will show you a list of websites that are using your keyword in the text

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Trip Down Memory Lane

November 28, 2009 in Cool Stuff, SEO Techniques | No comments

One very coolweb site is the Internet Archive | Way Back Machine, the site documents and retains versions of web sites throughout time. Just insert a URL and it will show you all those nasty web designs from part of the ’90’s to the current day.

It’s a great reference to see what your competition was doing right or wrong, check out the source code of the older sites to see the amount of spam in the meta codes.

The archive also has a bot that goes around, so remember that your site will also be preserved for eternity so don’t leave anything embarrassing lying around.

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Code Check

November 23, 2009 in Code, Meta Tags, SEO Techniques | No comments

So just about to publish that site and say hello to the world?

Just say hello to the validator first in case, there is something glaringly obvious that needs a tune up…

Get validated!

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Stop!, don’t use that word

November 22, 2009 in Keywords, SEO Techniques | No comments

Some words are in a way discarded by search engines to save space or time or both. These are known as “Stop” words. After a page is indexed it is stored on disk space but some words may not make it there to save space, if the objective is to speed search results than these words are simply not referenced when a search engine is scouring the index it rathers looks at the words around the stops. Read the rest of this entry »

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the Tags we Care About

November 22, 2009 in Code, Meta Tags, SEO Techniques | No comments

There are some meta tags that are still important, well to some anyway, these are looked at by the crawlers and have a big impact on search engine results. When you address these tags you are starting the first steps to SEO your site.

The tags are Page Title and Description and these should sit right at the top of your html page, the Keywords tag follows and should be in there at least for convention sake. See the post earlier for some information on the keyword tag.

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