I installed the SERPs Finder tool a while ago but I’ve only recently started to use it on a daily basis. The Sitening SERP Tracker has been the main resource I’ve relied on in the past and while it is useful for tracking search rank over a period of time, I’ve found that it […]
Checking redirects isn’t simply a matter of seeing if you land on the right page. To be safe, you should check the HTTP header and make sure that it returns a 301 Moved Permanently status code. If you aren’t getting a 301 code then there is either something wrong with the redirect, or you’ve […]
Dave Davis from RedFly Marketing has created a neat extension for Firefox called Google Global. It allows you to quickly switch to search results from a different country without changing URL’s or manually appending search strings.
If you’re like me and are constantly checking search results from different countries then this plugin will come in […]
Everybody wants more search engine traffic. It helps grow your readership, it converts well monetarily, and it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling when you check your stats.
However, like many bloggers out there you probably aren’t getting as much love from Google as you’d like. Here are some possible reasons why.
One of the methods I’ve previously suggested as a way to prevent your blog from leaking PageRank was to display blogroll links on a separate page. The purpose of this is to reduce the amount of site-wide outbound links on your blog.
Unfortunately doing this meant you had to abandon the built-in Wordpress blogroll functionality […]
Muhammad Saleem has written a guest post over at Copyblogger which discusses the importance of writing good headlines for both readers, search engines, and social sites.
He makes some excellent points in this article and I wanted to expand on two in particular. How headlines can affect RSS subscribers and search engines.
RSS Subscribers
Contrary to what […]
Over the past week I’ve been working with Maki from Dosh Dosh on a new Wordpress theme we have named ProSense.Our goal was to create a fast loading theme that was easy to customize, with well blended Adsense units included by default. It can be a pain trying to find the optimal position for […]
Probably the most interesting thing I’ve heard about Truemors is that it’s built on Wordpress.
It’s easy to see how the scalability and ease of modification that exists with Wordpress would attract such a high profile startup.
After poking around a bit I’ve noticed they are using some modified plugins as well. Notably WP-PostRatings (for voting) […]
In simple terms, PageRank leakage/dilution is when outbound links siphon off PageRank which would normally be distributed to internal pages, therefore reducing your sites overall PageRank.
How much of an effect it has on your site will depend on the strength of your internal linking and how many outbound links you have.
There are two […]
Whenever you make optimization changes to your site you can never be 100% sure how they will affect your rank on a given search engine results page (SERP). Even the most minor changes can sometimes have a major impact with search engines - both positive and negative.
Being able to track your search engine rank not […]
