People often write about how to increase your search engine ranking by using noindex and nofollow meta tags to avoid indexing of links & pages that lead to duplicate content, and robots.txt files to invite the search engines in, but what if you don’t want your site indexed at all? This is useful for private [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A great way to increase your blog’s search engine friendliness is to customize your permalink structure. This is extremely simple to do and ideally should be done as soon as you set up your blog, before people start linking to it. However, the good news is that the old “ugly” links will still work (and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Here is a Google SEO optimization technique that anyone can employ on just about any web page. In a nutshell, write better titles and title tags. Static web pages generally have a <title> tag in the <head> section of the document, and in many dynamically generated sites (blogs, ecommerce, etc.) the page’s Title tag is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »You may have seen my article about the Ultimate Noindex Nofollow tool for WordPress, but avoiding duplicate content can help the search engine ranking of any web site, including static sites. Recently, Yahoo!, Live, and Google all agreed to support Canonical URL Tags. You put a line of code into the head section of your [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Now that my blog has been up a few weeks I feel like I finally have some time to start thinking about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Today I’m checking out The Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool plugin by Jonathan Kemp. This plugin allows you to add “noindex” and “nofollow” tags to your WordPress blog pages. Right [...]
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