Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

SEO Centro: Rank Checker

Posted: July 6, 2010 at 2:22 am by

While running a website or a blog it is vital to research keywords for your articles. It is of equal importance to monitor how your keywords are ranking within the major search engines. By doing so you can see how your site is preforming, and if you need to make some changes. SEO Centro has a tool called Rank Checker that allows you to view how specific keywords rank within Google, Yahoo and Bing.

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How to Establish Yourself Online – Part 5: WordPress SEO

Posted: August 22, 2009 at 12:00 am by

Yesterday we customized wordpress with a custom theme, widgets, and plugins. Now that our site is looking the way we want, we need to modify it for search engine optimization. Wordpress does a pretty good job with SEO out of the box, however improvements can be made. SEO is important, as search engines are often a majority of traffic for a blog. Without a good SEO strategy in place, it can be difficult to gain visitors to your site.

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Get Listed in Google Faster

Posted: August 15, 2009 at 5:56 pm by

f you are running a new blog, one of your first concerns is getting listed in Google, as search engines are very important in generating traffic to your blog. The problem is, out of the box, it may take days or even weeks to get listed in Google, which is damning if you have content that is time sensitive. So, how can you get listed in Google quickly? Below are a few methods I have learned from others established in the industry.

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Blocking Search Engine Bots

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 7:59 pm by

When you are beginning a new website, the best course of action is to block all bots until the site is complete. As a new domain is created, Google and many of the other search engines will begin to bring bots to your site and list all content. This is not good, as you are under construction, and may not be ready to be indexed yet. There are two solutions to this problem. The first solution is to create a robots.txt file and tell the search engines to not index your site. The second is a more powerful option: using a noindex meta tag.

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Example robots.txt for WordPress and PHPBB3

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 7:03 pm by

I have just finished retooling the robots.txt file I will now be using. It includes both wordpress and phpBB3. I took wordpress’s suggested robots.txt file, added in a few more directories, added in the sitemap reference, and added in the phpbb3 section. I am not sure how good it will preform, however if changes are made, I will note them. If you have any comments, or suggestions, let me know.

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Remove Old Links from Google

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 6:00 pm by

After looking into Search Engine Optimization, I have learned the hard way on how to best create a website. Search engines, especially Google, begin indexing your site once your site exists on the Internet. It does not matter if you are done or not, Google’s spiders still come and index what is there. This means content your not ready for the world to see will appear in search engines, leading people to a unfinished website. Once your site does go live, your site’s listing in Google will contain many broken or out of date links, which will make your site look bad to both Google and your intended users. How do we remove those old links from Google, so we only have relevant links, which improve our rankings?

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