Monthly Archives: September, 2009
WordPress Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps
Maintaining this manual Google XML sitemap file for a blog would be a very tedious task to do manually, as the format is quite strict. What’s a blogger to do? Surely not update the sitemap XML file by hand after each post? Enter the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
Social Networking Roll Call
Here’s a run-down of some popular, yet lesser known, social networking websites out there.
Tweet Roundup Thru Sept. 10, 2009
Our search engine marketing and social media Tweets from September 1 to September 10, 2009.
WordPress Plugin: Google Analytics for WordPress
Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool for web analytics and conversion tracking. But to work, a snippet of JavaScript code (provided by Google in your Analytics account) has to be added to each page you want tracked. For non-coders this means modifying template’s footer PHP code, which can be a little daunting. The simpler, better way is to let WordPress do the heavy lifting for you, which is where this plugin comes in.
WordPress Plugin: All-In-One SEO Pack
Yes, WordPress already lets you specify a search engine-friendly URL for permalinks, and it provides several different ways to let crawlers get to content, and it uses a pingback service to inform the web of new content. What else could you want? Well, this this little guy takes it to the next level.
Tweet Round-up
A Week or so of Tweets … Great post and pyramid image on the ‘SEO Hierarchy of Needs’ from Virginia Nussey at Bruce Clay Inc. comScore: 113.6 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, up 41% over July 2008. StatCounter: In August, Bing/Yahoo slip to 20.14% share of U.S. market as Google rises to 77.83%. [...]
WordPress Plugin: Akismet
This great comment spam fighting tool is a must have, even for sites that require registration for commenting. Right now you’re saying, “But, Akismet already comes with WordPress,” and you’re right. But a lot of folks don’t understand it or use it, probably because it requires a WordPress.com API key to install. But honestly, don’t let this scare you away. WordPress API key’s are drop-dead simple to get. Just follow these quick steps…