WordPress Google Articles

Jun 19th 2008

The Ultimate PageRank Sculpting Guide for WordPress SEO

digg_url = “http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/blog/seo-pagerank-sculpting-guide/” PageRank sculpting is an SEO tactic that involves adding the nofollow attribute to links for which PageRank flow is not necessary. PageRank sculpting is important because it helps stop your pages from giving away their PageRank unnecessarily. It is particularly beneficial for WordPress blogs, since they have a multitude of taxonomy/archive pages [...] Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in SEO | Comments (24)

Jun 2nd 2008

Don’t Let Google Truncate Your Blog Post Titles!

Even if you have a catchy blog post title, it might not generate many clickthroughs in search engine result pages if it’s truncated with the familiar ellipsis in the SERPs. Here are two tips to avoid this: Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in Tips | Comments (0)

May 28th 2008

How to Find and Fix 404 Errors

If you’ve changed post slugs, taxonomy slugs, or permalink structures, you likely created 404 pages (page-not-found URLs) along the way. These 404 pages certainly aren’t helpful for visitors who stumble across them and can increase your bounce rate. It can be a particular problem if search engines, pingbacks, and/or internal and external links are sending [...] Read more »

By John Lamansky | Posted in Troubleshooting, Tutorials | Comments (7)