WordPress SEO Settings Yoast v1.6 SEO in WordPress just doesn’t cut it until you use the powerful all singing and dancing WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast. This tutorial covers the WordPress SEO plugin by Joost De Valk, it is a powerhouse of a tool that deals with all the SEO configurables you could ever think …
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Adding in Google Plus Authorship and Publisher Profile to Genesis WordPress Theme
To get your Google Plus Authorship profile active on a Genesis Theme on a WordPress site you need to set yourself up as a contributor to that site via your Google plus profile, then include your Google Plus profile URL in your sites <head></head> section wrapped in a link tag with the rel=”author” or in …
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Silent Google Panda or Penguin Algorithm Rollouts to Search Results
Sometimes Google will make an announcement of an algorithm rollout or change via a cryptic comment from Matt Cutts on Twitter, on his blog or via the Google Blog for Webmasters. This has been true of recent Hummingbird, Penguin or Panda algorithm updates, but what about when there is no announcement and your search traffic increases suddenly …
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Drupal SEO Settings – Configuring The Basics – All About Hiding the Node
Ok so here is the roadtrip to optimal SEO settings and best practice for Drupal, going from setting the URLs to be search engine friendly, creating URL aliases, creating default templated URL aliases, setting up redirects from older URL aliases. Setting up Page Titles, Meta Tags and Canonical links – lets get started… Clean URLs …
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Penguin version 2.0 Algorithm Update May 2013
All you SEO Spammers, Spinners and Spruikers, beware ! Sheriff Penguin version 2.0 is in town unleashing new and improved unique version 2.0 Algorithm Updates to all the folk affecting a whopping 2.3% of English US search queries on the Google Index. This is quite a hefty change around so expect some movement in your rankings …
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How to get rid of paid incoming spam blog links with Google Disavow Tool
Google has brought out a new tool for webmasters to fix dodgy incoming paid spam blog links into their site – called the Disavow tool. In its ongoing battle against spam and paid links Google is giving a website owner a 2nd chance if they have been doing naughty things with links. What are naughty …
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Penguin Algorithm Update October 2012
All you SEO Spammers, Spinners and Spruikers, beware ! Sheriff Penguin is in town again (tip off came courtesy of Matt Cutts on Twitter) unleashing 2 Algorithm Updates to all the folk affecting a whopping 0.3% and a further 0.7% of search queries on the Google Index. The target is the usual SEO suspects shuffling along …
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Google Analytics Hiding the Data – (not set) (not provided) (content targeted)
Starting to see less and less in the numbers as provided by Google Analytics of your website traffic… looking at the stats in Traffic Sources > Overview in the keywords list we have: (not provided) (content targettted) (not set) What are they? (not provided) The (not provided) figure will typically be one of the highest …
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