26 May 2008 0 Comments

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 [...]

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15 January 2008 7 Comments

Checklist for an SEO friendly Content Management System

When you’re looking for a Content Management System or CMS, don’t just accept the first proposal made by your familiar web designer or developer. There are tons of great and easy to use content management systems out there, but most of them aren’t search engine friendly. And if there is one thing you don’t want [...]

13 December 2007 3 Comments

How the big ones implement their 404 page not found error pages

Yesterday while browsing on YouTube I ran across a 500 Internal Server Error. Never happened to me before on YouTube, but I didn’t mind. The YouTube 500 Error page seems to contain a funny message, and if there is something I like it is funny errorhandling. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched [...]

6 December 2007 4 Comments

LinkedIn is more than just a networking website, use it for SEO

LinkedIn, the business networking website that allows you to stay in contact with your professional contacts, can do more than just that. It also can be used as a location to plug relevant links with relevant anchor text to your websites. So when you’re building links for your website (very important these days in SEO), [...]

20 November 2007 2 Comments

Discovering the World of Search Engine Marketing

Last night I stumbled across this really nice presentation by Pure Visibility, a Michigan internet marketing company. In this presentation, they really give a great introduction to what Search Engine Marketing is all about. Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per-click, Social Media Optimization, Web Analytics, Universal Search, … it’s all there. So if you’re looking for a [...]

18 November 2007 43 Comments

How to optimize your WordPress blog for the Search Engines?

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 [...]