If you use the RSS widget in WordPress to bring in a Feed with multiple external links that go to external content and that update in the sidebar. You may notice that all these links have the attribute set to ‘follow‘ by default. This can be detrimental to your page’s SEO status in terms of …
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Help I’m a SEO without a Yahoo, Get Me Out Of Here!
Yahoo Site Explorer is no more, it’s gone, no more, so long! You served us well, free access to backlinks on our sites, and on our competitor sites (didn’t they love that) to specific URLs or whole domains. Yahoo site explorer has now been integrated into Bing Webmaster tools, but really the functionality is just …
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After Effects of Caffeine Index on Google
Panda Update 2.6 November 2011 Looks like Google search results are starting to change as a result from Google’s revised indexing process called Caffeine which was put to work in June 2010 and a new freshness ranking algorithm – so is this Panda Update 2.6 November 2011?. The idea behind the Caffeine indexing change was …
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Installing Piwik – Real Time Web Analytics – WordPress Joomla and Drupal
This is a tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik – an alternative to Google Analytics – with Piwik the data you have is stored on your server and not accessible by any other party. Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and …
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Changing WordPress SEO Plugins from Platinum SEO to Yoast SEO
Changing WordPress SEO OK the time has come to change my WordPress SEO plugin , I want to change over to use the Yoast SEO Plugin. I have been using Platinum SEO up until now, but I can’t help noticing more bells and whistles that the Yoast plugin comes with. The developer Joost de Valk …
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Google Panda Highers Page Rank
Well I got my page rank back to 3 when Panda came a knocking once again, so basically it was dropped for about 1 month from the first round. For the keywords “coolest guy on the planet” the site is currently flitting between No.s 10/11 on Google and No.s 1/2/3 on Bing/Yahoo. The focus page …
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Sort out your Canonical URLs in Drupal – Force http://www
Avoid any content duplication and ensure Google opts for a particular version of your site when indexing – fix up your redirects to choose either http://yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com by putting in a 301 redirect. There is a possibility that failing to this may create duplicate content and be penalised by the Googler You can get …
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Google Panda 2.2 Lowers Page Rank on my Website – Eats Shoots and Leaves
My site got hit by the Panda 2.2! Ouch! Panda dropped my Pagerank from 3 to 0, I didn’t even see it coming. Panda 2.2 has been doing the rounds since June 2011, Matt Cutts said it was coming but I didn’t realise how hard it would hit. Coolest guy on the planet has had …
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