Category: Wordpress

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WordPress launches WordPress TV

Automattic, the company behind the blogging platforms wordpress.com and wordpress.org launched a new service today: wordpress.tv.

WordPress TV is meant to become “your visual resource for all things WordPress“. The new platform will share all videos on WordPress insights, skills, hacks and knowledge. Focus lies on both the blogging software wordpress.org and the free bloghost wordpress.com. But there’s also room for interviews, presentations and reports from WordPress related events. From the WordPress.tv blog:

Our goal with WordPress.tv is simple: To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations.

For now WordPress.tv already contains more than 200 movies, but I’m sure the total amount will increase significantly in the weeks to come…

How to make your standard WordPress titles more attractive?

Most WordPress themes have the same, SEO-unfriendly, standard titles. Although the times are changing little by little, a lot of blogs still use those unattractive titles. They don’t look good in the SERP‘s and when you add a post to a social bookmarking site, chances are real those strange looking characters (« and ») will be transformed into something unreadable. Time to make a change…

Title tag

  • Login to your WordPress backend and go to Design > Theme Editor.

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Forgot to change the year in your footer?

A new year, a new footer? Even now in february I still see a lot of blogs that haven’t changed the year in their footer (yet). It still reads “© 200x – 2007“. Maybe the owner forgot to change the year or doesn’t know how and where to change it.

Wordpress copyright change year in footer

If you change the code in your footer as follows, you’ll never have to worry about it again.

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How to get your blog indexed by the Search Engines

So you managed to set up your new blog. You were much excited about it, told all your friends and some of them even took the effort of paying your new site a visit, but now the amount of daily visitors dropped to somewhere near freezing point.

Please, index my new website/blog

How do all those websites generate traffic ? Thanks to search engines like Google, Live and Yahoo!. Great ! But before search engines can send traffic to your site, it has to be indexed. In the post “How to SEO your WordPress blog and make Google like it” I promised to show you ways to get your new blog noticed and indexed by the search engines. So here we go : there are several ways to accomplish indexation and attract the search engine bots or crawlers to your new website, but there’s one road you don’t want to take…

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How to optimize your WordPress blog for the Search Engines?

SEO for WordPress blogs

Fact 1: WordPress in the best and easiest blogging system in the world.

Fact 2: search engines like Google, Live and Yahoo! really like blogs.

The reason behind the success of blogs in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP’s) is that they really fit in the way search engines and their algorithms work today.

I’m going to show you how you can get your WordPress blog loved even more by Google and other search engines.

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