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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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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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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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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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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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