Articles tagged with “seo”
- Taking Advantage of the X-Robots Tag
- Controlling the spidering, indexing and caching of your (X)HTML-based web pages is possible with meta robots directives such as these:
I use these directives here at Perishable Press and they continue to serve me well for controlling how the “big bots” 1 crawl and represent my (X)HTML-based content in search results.
For other, non-(X)HTML ...
- Repenting of My Nofollow Sins
- Hello, my name is Jeff and I am nofollow addict.
When I first began Perishable Press two years ago, in August of 2005, WordPress quickly became my blogging platform of choice. Everything about WordPress was great, so I had no trouble overlooking a few seemingly insignificant quirks, such as the nofollow attributes that are automatically applied to all comment links. In fact, at first, I really had no idea what they were or how they affected my ...
- Stop WordPress from Leaking PageRank to Admin Pages
- [ Keywords: wordpress, pagerank, pr, admin, pages, login, register, meta, robots, search, google ]
During the most recent Perishable Press redesign, I noticed that several of my WordPress admin pages had been assigned significant levels of PageRank. Not good. After some investigation, I realized that my ancient robots.txt rules were insufficient in preventing Google from indexing various WordPress admin pages. Specifically, the following pages have been indexed and subsequently assigned PageRank:
WP Admin Login Page
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- Seven Ways to Beef Up Your Best Pages for the Next Google PR Update
- [ Keywords: pr, pagerank, page, rank, comments, posts, article, links, meta, seo, google ]
Time is running out! Soon, it will be time for the next Google PageRank (PR) update. While it is difficult to predict how your site will perform overall, it seems likely that your highest ranking pages will continue to rank well. The idea behind this article is to improve your site’s overall ...
- SEO 101: Best Practices
- [ Keywords: seo, search, engine, optimization, optimize, websites, domains, links ]
After studying Peter Kent’s excellent book, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, several key methods emerged for optimizing websites for the search engines. Although the book is written for people who are new to the world of search engine optimization (SEO), many of the principles presented throughout the book remain important, fundamental practices even for ...
- Search Engine Registration Notes
- In his excellent book, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, Peter Kent explains that many search engines actually get their search results from one (or more) of the larger search engines, such as Google or The Open Directory Project. Therefore, the author concludes that it may not be necessary to spend endless hours registering with thousands of the smaller search sites. Rather, the author ...
- SEO 101: Establishing and Evolving an Effective Link Strategy
- Introduction
Optimizing your website for the search engines involves many important aspects including keyword development, search engine registration, and SEO logging. This Press post scopes yet another critical weapon in the SEO wars: establishing and evolving an effective link campaign.
Within your SEO log, you should devote an entire section to the logging of all link-related activity associated with optimizing your ...
- Stop Bitacle from Stealing Content
- If you have yet to encounter the content-scraping site, bitacle.org, consider yourself lucky. The scum-sucking worm-holes at bitacle.org are well-known for literally, blatantly, and piggishly stealing blog content and using it for financial gains through advertising. While I am not here to discuss the legal, philosophical, or technical ramifications of illegal bitacle behavior, I am here to provide a few critical tools that will help ...
- Perishable Press Search Engine Optimization Library
- Welcome to Perishable Press! This article covers a plethora of search-engine optimization resources. For more excellent SEO information, check out the Optimization category archive. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe to Perishable Press for a periodic dose of online enlightenment ;)
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- Roll Your Own SEO Log
- Introduction
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the business of every serious webmaster. The process of optimizing a website for the search engines involves much more than properly constructed document headers and anchor tags. Websites are like trees: their roots are the growing collection of content presented through the branching universe of the World Wide Web. Or something. The point is that optimizing a website requires nurturing the site itself while also ensuring proper ...
- SEO 101: Keyword Development and Deployment
- Keyword Development
Keywords play a vital role in search engine optimization (SEO), and -- if used properly -- have the potential to increase the flow of traffic to your site. It is beneficial to maintain an active list of keywords for each of your websites. Each list should be a continually evolving set of important, relevant keywords. The idea here is to develop a consistent practice of actively seeking better keywords, thereby producing your very own customized keyword ...
- Death to NoFollow
- Perishable Press vehemently opposes The great corporate/commercial campaign to implement the rel="nofollow" anchor. The proposal suggests that use of nofollow will reduce spam and improve search engine results.
This couldn’t be further from the truth, regardless of what the commercial giant$ may tell you.
Examine these helpful references and see for yourself:
11 Reasons Against nofollow
The NoNoFollow Group
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