{"id":85,"date":"2009-10-26T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibeehosting.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2015-06-07T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T06:13:56","slug":"seo-for-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibeehosting.com\/blog\/seo-for-blogs.html","title":{"rendered":"SEO for Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Useful Plugins:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Akismet<\/li>\n<li>Math Comment Spam Protection<\/li>\n<li>Google Analytics (put in footer.php)<\/li>\n<li>Feedburner Feed Replacement: MyBrand + stats<\/li>\n<li>Democracy (polls)<\/li>\n<li>SEO Title <code>(swap name <-> title)<?php if (is_home()) bloginfo('name'); else wp_title(\"\"); ?><\/code><\/li>\n<li>WP Cache<\/li>\n<li>Democracy (polls)<\/li>\n<li>Math Comment Spam Protection<\/li>\n<li>Brian\u2019s Threaded Comments<\/li>\n<li>Comment Karma<\/li>\n<li>Author Highlight<\/li>\n<li>WWW Redirect<\/li>\n<li>Permalink Redirect<\/li>\n<li>Related Entries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SEO Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Don&#8217;t put blog at root page of domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if you want something besides a blog?<\/li>\n<li>People link to main page and main blog page, so you get some extra links that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Name your directory &#8220;blog\u201c, not \u201cwordpress\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Might want to change your software someday<\/li>\n<li>Also makes upgrading easier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Various keyword tools: AdWords, Overture\/Yahoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Use categories that are also good keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Keywords in url paths: domain.com\/my-words<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dashes are best<\/li>\n<li>Next best is underscores<\/li>\n<li>No spaces is worst<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6. Someone should ask me: What if I\u2019ve already done my site? Should I change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Think about the keywords that users will type. Include them naturally in your posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. ALT tags are handy (3-4 relevant words)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Don&#8217;t forget image search, videos, etc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Make sure your site is crawlable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Make your post creation dates easy to find<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Check your blog on a cell phone\/iPhone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>13. I recommend full-text RSS feeds to get loyal users. Partial feeds get more page views, but not as much love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Your blog should do standard pings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>15. moving to a new webhost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>16. How to switch from one IP address to another<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(Optional) Reduce your DNS time-to-live<\/li>\n<li>Back up your site. Bring it up on new IP<\/li>\n<li>Watch Googlebot &#038; user traffic until they fetch the site from the new IP address<\/li>\n<li>Take down the old site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>17. moving to a new domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standard advice: Use a 301 (permanent) redirect<\/li>\n<li>Even better: pick one subdirectory and move it first<\/li>\n<li>If the traffic stays roughly the same on the desired domain, go ahead and switch<\/li>\n<li>Otherwise, take some time to figure out why<\/li>\n<li>Standardize your backlinks (www vs. non-www)<\/li>\n<li>Write to everyone; ask them to update their links<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>free Google tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Webmaster console<\/li>\n<li>Feedburner: MyBrand for free<\/li>\n<li>feeds.mattcutts.com instead of feeds.feedburner.com<\/li>\n<li>Custom Search Engine: free site search<\/li>\n<li>AdSense<code><br \/>\n<!-- google_ad_section_start --><br \/>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/code><\/li>\n<li>Google Analytics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Google Webmaster console<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Test out robots.txt before pushing live<\/li>\n<li>Submit an authenticated spam report<\/li>\n<li>Url removal tool: remove urls\/directories for 6 months<\/li>\n<li>See your backlinks (helps moving to a new domain)<\/li>\n<li>See 404 and crawl errors<\/li>\n<li>See crawl stats<\/li>\n<li>Decide www vs. non-www<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ranking advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get traffic from Google, then get noticed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                                          OR<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get noticed, then get traffic from Google<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                                           ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>getting known<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Provide useful service<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign creator that produces PDF<\/li>\n<li>iPhone apps<\/li>\n<li>Lolcat builder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Creativity creates buzz\/word-of-mouth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lonelygirl15<\/li>\n<li>Million pixel home page<\/li>\n<li>Humor: Mac vs. PC<\/li>\n<li>Free hugs campaign<\/li>\n<li>Photoshopping, e.g. Perez Hilton<\/li>\n<li>Analyze someone else\u2019s blog<\/li>\n<li>Sell your moustache on eBay<\/li>\n<li>Tutorials (Firefox, Linux, Ubuntu, fashion, \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Contribute insightful analysis<\/li>\n<li>Less spam with Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail?<\/li>\n<li>Hunting down Wikipedia defacers<\/li>\n<li>Other topics? Watch Techmeme, Reddit, Digg, Slashdot<\/li>\n<li>Live blogging<\/li>\n<li>Create controversy<\/li>\n<li>John Dvorak: Master of creating controversy<\/li>\n<li>Mention Robert Scoble<\/li>\n<li>George Bush poll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Avoid Mistakes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change default permalink (domain.com\/?p=111)<\/li>\n<li>I use \/%postname%\/<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use sponsored theme &#8211; can lose all your trust in different search engines<\/li>\n<li>No PayPerPost on wordpress.com: TOS highlights that in blue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Security:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Put .htaccess in \/wp-admin\/ (not in your root directory!)<\/p>\n<p>\t<code><br \/>\nAuthUserFile \/dev\/null<br \/>\nAuthGroupFile \/dev\/null\u000bAuthName \"Access Control\"<br \/>\nAuthType Basic\u000b<LIMIT GET><br \/>\norder deny,allow\u000bdeny from all<br \/>\n# whitelist home IP address<br \/>\nallow from 123.45.67.89<br \/>\n# whitelist work IP address<br \/>\nallow from 89.67.45.123<br \/>\n<\/LIMIT><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.reubenyau.com\/protecting-the-wordpress-wp-admin-folder\/<\/p>\n<p>Credits to Matt Cutt, For SEO works email to info@ibeehosting.com or call at 91.40.23326195<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful Plugins: Akismet Math Comment Spam Protection Google Analytics (put in footer.php) Feedburner Feed Replacement: MyBrand + stats Democracy (polls) SEO Title (swap name title) WP Cache Democracy (polls) Math Comment Spam Protection Brian\u2019s Threaded Comments Comment Karma Author Highlight WWW Redirect Permalink Redirect Related Entries SEO Tips: 1. 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