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Important SEO Checklist for WordPress Blog

Sky — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:59:53 +0000

When one is looking setting up a WordPress blog, there are several very important steps to take in order to ensure that blog will be search engine optimized from the beginning. There are some SEO steps for the bloggers to follow in configuring WordPress, in adding plugins to the blog, and in adding content to the blog, and there will be a good return on the time of investment!
In the following paragraphs, some plugins that are most essential for ensuring that a blog will be optimized and will help one get good placement in the Search Engine Results, are listed. There are also others that are helpful, but these few are the ones that do the most to optimize a WordPress blog for the search engines.

1. Greg’s High Performance SEO
2. Google XML Sitemaps
3. WP-to-Twitter
4. Sociable for WordPress
5. Dashboard Google Analytics

Affordable Web Hosting Plus Premium Support, Time to Blogging Everyone!!

Matthew — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:38:26 +0000

Due to the long-last market down-turn, the financial pressure for families are increasing at dramatic speed. Meanwhile, it’s more and more difficult for people to find a well-paid job quickly and large amount of employees are actually being laid off with large amount of labor facing the stress of losing their job in the future.
As a result, the group of self-employed people are growing. Due to the negative effect caused by the credit crunch in loan business, the business idea concerning on-line businesses, such as Blogtrepreneurship and E-commerce, show off their merits over other businesses ideas in their low demands in original funds. These on-line businesses are also quite appropriate options for the house-wives, who are looking for some means to help with earning extra money in their spare time to meet their budget.
For all of the on-line businesses, one key factor in distinguishing a good web-page from a poor one is its accessibility and the speed of loading the information. It should be the No. 1 priority for all the bloggers or on-line businesses owners to find a good web-hosting service.
However, not all web-hosting service could meet your needs. Sometimes, some web-hosting services could be very terrible as a result of the over-load in the domain. It will be very annoying if the readers needs to wait for quite a while after clicking the link to get access to your web-page. If this situation exist consistently, you might suffer greatly in the web-page traffic and it might cause you financial loss to some extend.
Compared to most over-loaded on-line businesses with longer history in the field, the ones newly come into practice can actually offer you much better service packages. As such new web-hosting business has much more sufficient space under their domains, the speed to their customers’ web-pages are much better guaranteed. The NaniHost.com is one of the best examples.
Are you interested in the idea of raising your own on-line businesses? Are you searching for reliable hosting services? Are you not satisfied with your current web-hosting service? Check it out at NaniHost. You might find something that suits you.

Make Your Blog Unique

Matthew — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:00:59 +0000

I was pleased to find the current theme for my blog. It is just what I wanted and was excited every time it loaded. The problem with the above is that it is a free theme available to all, and if my predictions are correct, it is one that will become very popular with this type of blog.

So with the possibility of many other blogs having the same theme, what makes my blog stand out from those? The content will be uniquely written by me however it will be based around the same topics. I had to change it to make it my own so that there is more chance of a user remembering it.

As you can see I have done away with most of the grey dullness and gone for a blue, a colour to commonly used however for the reason that it works well. The chances of another blog, unless they copy, selecting the same colours I have used are very unlikely. This is a good first step to making your blog more unique.

Templates are usually very easy to edit, especially due to the great features of CSS. A graphics editor is needed so that images and notepad or a HTML editor to change the CSS colours.

Something that I should focus on next is creating a logo for the site. I am trialing a logo, I am not sure that it goes with the site, time will tell.

Favicon

The logo came after I tried the below with an image I have.

Previously if I wanted an favicon for a website it meant loading Fireworks creating a nice PNG, downsizing it and changing the file type to .ico. I have recently come across a much quicker way to do this. This site allows you to create a favicon by just uploading any picture you want. It will re-size and allow you to download it.

Click here to use this service.

What is RSS?

Matthew — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:54:20 +0000

You see the little icons marked RSS all over the web, but what exactly is it? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.

RSS allows you to display and distribute up to date news, articles, blog posts and many other types of conent. Websites content is not always changed at a specific time, and if a user is interested in the content of a website they can subscribe to that websites RSS feed and receive updates as and when they happen.

You read the content of RSS feeds by using a feed reader. There are many of these online and now there is the choice between desktop and online feed readers. You can even be sent feeds via e-mail. If you view many individual websites for their content you can now have it all in one place.

Adding an RSS feed to your website is a great way to keep your visitors informed. You can even use services like FeedBurner to find out how many people have subscribed to your RSS feed.