Optimization

Secure your WordPress site Part 1

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In the past few weeks I have read about dozens of Wordpress based sites that have come under some form of attack, while I feel sympathetic for the victims I hate to say that most of the ways Wordpress based sites are attacked can be prevented by simple measures that any site owner can accomplish. I will start off, what may be a mufti-part series on how to secure your Wordpress site now. While this is not the end all, be all of Wordpress security, following these tips will be an effective start to thoroughly protecting your Wordpress site and will make your site much more secure than most. If you really are serious about making money online, protect your business, it’s your responsibility[…]

WordPress Robots.txt file for SEO

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Wordpress, straight out of the box is an excellent platform that is feature rich, easy to use and highly customizable. But guess what, it’s navigation structure is absolutely horrible in the eyes of search engines because many of the features that make user navigation so easy and intuitive end up having the exact opposite effect for search engine spiders/bots. The ability to easily navigate to posts/pages by multiple links of various names can produce a pile of the ever-dreaded duplicate content that search engines such as Google will penalize your site for. Unless you want your pages in the supplemental index, read on to learn one more SEO “must-do” to keep your site SERP’ing strong[…]

Don’t let your content end up in Google Hell!

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As the popularity of blogging continues to grow, the desire to gather as much traffic from search engines like Google grows as well. Everyone wants their piece of the pie (and that of the blogger to the left and right of them as well)

There are several factors to consider when setting up a site, developing content and optimizing that content for the best ranking in the eyes of big brother Google and uncle Yahoo, many of these factors we all know, and yes, as far as SEO is concerned, content is king and always will be. If you simply keep feeding the monster fresh, original content on a regular basis and do nothing else, you will do well. However, for those of us that are looking for that extra leverage, or that little added edge to not only increase the perceived value of our content, our sites and in turn our site income, I will give you a few sure fire solutions right here, right now[…]