10 Important Tips to Optimize Wordpress for Search Engines

Well of course this tutorial is original posted in "www.1stwebdesigner.com" and I would like to share it too to all my fellow Filipino wordpress developer out there. As a webmaster by profession, I also have so many kind of tools for SEO just to hit the top page of any search engine on the web. But as I search for an easy to understand technique to optimize your wordpress site for any search engines, I found this tips of 1stwebdesigner.com and I'm impress because some of this technique is unknown for me before but of course now I can say it's really works.

There is a wide concept in publisher’s mind that using wordpress means getting maximum traffic from search engines because wordpress is a very good CMS which hardly requires Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Well this concept is not as correct as it sounds. Wordpress also requires some optimization to get max out of search engines. For this purpose i made a list of 10 Important Changes which should be a part of your wordpress blog.

1. Use a sitemap generator and generate XML sitemaps like twice a week.


2. Use an Ideal Robot.txt File which do the following:

Points to the sitemap in first line.
Disallow unnecessary pages, folders so search engines get to your content instead of wasting time and getting less important stuff.
Here is a sample : http://www.designzzz.com/robots.txt

3. Using rel=”nofollow” Attribute in outgoing or less important links.

This Attribute tells the search engine bots not to follow the specific link or do not share that page’s Rank with this link. This is a very important tip , you can control your site’s SEO and Page rank by just using proper nofollow attributes. Here is a post i wrote earlier which can show you how to control your page rank and seo by using nofollow. Ok, the Less Important links includes links like Read more.. , Click here etc. This can be done by editing the template files easily.
Some plugins which we use in Wordpess blogs requires a must nofollow and we never thought about that. Here is a very cool example. You are using the easy retweet plugin and Retweet buttons are shown on start of every post even on your homepage. Lets say you have 10 posts blocks on your homepage and have 10 retweet buttons on it link to twitter.com !!! that means there are ten outgoing links, you are sharing your site’s page rank and getting lesser visibility in search engine. it can be nofollow from its settings.

4. Proper URL and Title Structure

It is the most important part which we neglect while publishing a post. Lets take a simple example. I am about ot publish a post lets say.
10 Awesome Graphics Designs and Digital Artworks the URL would be :
www.yoursite.com/category/10-awesome-graphics-designs-and-digital-artworks

Seems pretty much alright, right? Well..here u miss about 30% of your visibility!!
A simple reason using STOP WORDS in title and URL are the worst idea u can think up of. !! AND is a stop word. About the url why make it so long using extra stuff in it like the word 10 , and etc. Trust me no one will search for your content in search engines with these words 10 graphics design. If they look for that they will search graphics designs etc.
So get rid of 10 , and from your URL. Here is how they should be:

* Title: 10 Awesome Graphics Designs n Digital Artworks

* URL: www.yoursite.com/category/awesome-graphics-designs-digital-artworks/

Makes sense? well i don’t even use the category name in the URL structure to make it smaller and more powerful!

5. Using Keywords and Meta Description:

Ok, i have noticed that most of the bloggers use very tiny keywords. Well, guys small get a habit of using long tail keywords,because with them u get traffic for life time. Lets take the example of that above title post. keywords/tags which bloggers normally select are: graphics, design, digital, artworks. Why don’t you spice them up a bit to get even more traffic? If i would do it , I would use these keywords:

Graphics, Design, Digital Artworks, Graphic Designs, Digital Graphics.

I actually spread the same keywords with order and words variation!!

About meta description keep it below 160 characters and add your keywords in it as well as possible like each keyword should be mentioned at least once.

6. Automatic SEO Plugin for Wordpress

Well, I have used several plugins to test which one is good and the only plugin which satisfied me is Headspace2 SEO. I Recommend it.

7. On post page title of post should be written in Heading 1 (H1). and its very important to use your keywords in h2, h3 and h4 if possible.

8. Title and ALT Attribute in Links:

Ok, this is an important part which none of us actually look at. Title and alt attributes in links plays an important role in telling search bots that what this link or image is about.
Title and alt attributes are written like this if you are unaware of it:

* Keyword

*

My site gets 10% of its traffic from Google image search!! Because I use proper alt attribute.
Consider this example!! Like the graphics design post we discussed above. Your post consists of 10 Images. That means not much text to get good ranking and visibility in search engines. So why not use alt attribute in an optimized way!! in 10 images add alt tags with picture name + keyword/tag.

For example, the image name is abcd. i will add the alt attribute as alt=”abcd design” or abcd graphics etc. That means in 10 places on your page’s source code your keywords are used! I think you get my point.

9. Avail Wordpress ping facility to get max exposure and inbound links

Here is a list you might consider putting in your ping section in admin>settings>Writing:

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

10. This might sound odd!! No follow Home Page !!

See this post for proper info about no-following homepage and why is it important.

Hope this helps! Maybe you have some more tips you would like to add? Feel free to write them in comments! Thanks and enjoy!

How to pimp twitter profile?

A minute ago I decided to make my twitter profile look different and great. So what I did is to contact my friend "google" to teach me how to make it great in my own sight.

I search and I found this article of sitemasher titled "Pimping Out Your Twitter Profile Background ". I really appreciate what she said on her article like this one, "pimping out your Twitter profile background can help your personal branding and marketing efforts", I'm agree with her promise.

So before you decide to close this tutorial, I'll better start this tutorial so you can achieve your desire design layout for your twitter profile.

First you need to open your Adobe Photoshop or any graphic software you have so we can begin. Of course the design is up to you and I'm only gonna give some tip of what you must put in your design.

You must not forget to put the link word of your blogs, website or any link you want to share to your followers in your design. And don't forget to place it to left part or right part of the designed.

Then make it sure that your design template sized in 1280 x 1024. why? because I like it but always remember to make your design background color the same to the background color setting in your twitter account so that if the resolution gets wider, the designed of your twitter will not look short or not fit.

If you already done with your designed. Just log in to your twitter account and go to the setting menu. Then find the Design Navigation menu there. If you found it just click it and look the " Change background image » " so you can browse your own designed from your computer then if your done just click the "Save Changes" Button. After that you can it clearly you designed upload and already set in you twitter background.

Like what I did to my twitter profile http://twitter.com/csseyahcool All you need to do is to follow me. Thanks for your time reading this obvious tutorial about pimping your twitter profile.

dNeero Flash Embed V2 Test

More exciting and fun while using dNeero Flash Embed. Very useful to those who always using it to their blogs. Take your time to explore it and you will find the new and excitement of using Flash Embed V2 dNeero.

Easier Ways to Enjoy Youtube Videos

Well guys, obviously when you search for a video and you find it good, the first thing that you want do is to save it or keep it. But what if you find it at the Youtube.com how you gonna save or keep it? Of course there's a lot of third party software out there whose willing to give their free services, like how to download the video at the youtube.com

But recently while searching for the tech topic here at my blog I found this site http://kickyoutube.com, where the main objective of this site is to make your youtube video easier to enjoy where ever you go.

Yes, where ever you go because you gonna download your favorite video in any format you desire. Like FLV, MP3, HD, 3GP, Iphone and even GIF. All you need to do is to search the video you want and if you done just put the word "kick" at the beginning of the url of the said video. just like this "http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch?v=E62IYhpBu90" and the rest leave to http://kickyoutube.com. Okey! That's all folks I hope you enjoy for this simple yet very helpful technique.

Ballmer: Are you strong enough for more competition?

Recently Cnet.com News discuss with the Microsoft CEO about Microsoft competitor software company which developing a new and stable software for this coming years, namely, Linux, Apple and the looming threat from Google's Android and Chrome OS. But Ballmer the Microsoft CEO said ""Right now I just put it on the list for competitive completeness.". We're all know that Steve Ballmer is the new Microsoft CEO and the Microsoft's biggest economic engine, its Windows business.

And Ballmer added that "Any business that is as big...as Windows deserves competition." Well I think he have the right to say that but for me He is so chesty as a peacock enough to be fall. The Windows System will get more competitor right now and it will held it into deep deep down and never to get out from the mess that Ballmer started.

However, he noted that the company still had work to do with the analysts, counting up the significant number of Macs in the crowd. "Don't hide it," he said. "I've already counted them. I've been doing it since we started talking...Feel free. As long as you are using Office go right on ahead." So Ballmer assumed that all computer savvy in the world still using his Golden Windows.

Earlier in his talk, Ballmer also walked through the economics of the search ad deal with Yahoo, highlighting its benefits to both companies, calling it a win-win.

Google Cache

Maybe you wondered why every time you tried to search in google.com you notice that each entry you've search have the link "Cache" in the end of each excerpt line.

Well that is the Google cache feature of Google.com were you can view the snapshot of your website. And Google.com used this for examines version of your website as a back-up page. Yes back-up page that Google.com uses to judge if a page is a good match for your query.

But for me not all the time this is useful because this is not always updated and sometimes the link to that snapshot page is not always accurate specially if you have a dynamic website and always do an update to all your content.

So the Google.com released an option if you want to update the cached page of your website and prevent Google bot from caching the page in the future, you just add the noarchive meta tag to your header HTML file within tag. like this;

meta name="robots" content="noarchive"

and to prevent only Google from displaying one, use the following tag like this:

meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">

(don't forget to put the <> tag between line of meta tag)

And that's it, you can control now your cache page in the Google search engine. Or once you done from adding this meta tag to your HTML File, you can use also the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools of Google.com.

Want an upgrade? Mac OS x or Windows 7?

For those who didn't yet know, Mac OS X can be used to all generic computer like windows OS do. And in fact this Apple introduces Mac OS X snow leopard at the WWDC or Worldwide developer conference attendees.

Both this two software companies focusing on performance enhancement to the operating system that's why Windows 7 release for Vista upgrade. But many companies or account thinking for what is the best upgrade they gonna make.

Both this two companies have something to tell to all user that they seem to bear out improvements in the operating system. Apple and Microsoft are fighting for the mind share of consumers as both companies prepare for an upgrades to their operating systems later this year.

It seem that we need to think twice which this this operating systems that fit our need. By the way, Apple said Snow Leopard is expected to ship in September. Microsoft will release Windows 7 in October.
so better to wait and see which these two operating got success when it comes to upgrade.