5.16.2012

Updating Old Web Applications





The past few days I've been working on some websites that I wrote years ago. Part of the motivation was to add new features but there were also some bugs that developed when external APIs changed or in some cases disappeared.



Some of it was painless, other parts had me banging my head up against the wall.



I thought I'd document some of the problems I ran across and some of the things that have helped make the update process easier.

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5.15.2012

Website Header Size?




Your website's header is an important part of building your brand. But how big should your header be? Webdesign trends constantly change. Today I'm going to look at 10 popular websites in different markets and look at their header size and layout as well as their logo size.

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5.14.2012

Blogging Is Not A Get Rich Quick Scheme



Over the years more and more people have been looking for ways to make money online. Many have turned to blogging. But how much money can you expect to make from a blog?



I addressed this topic back in 2008 in How Much Money Do Bloggers Make (analysis of a poll from Darren Rowse) and it turns out to be not that much for most. Now I'd like to address the same topic by looking at the stats of 7 of the 10 last blogs in tecnorati's top 100 blog list.



They're not the top of the list but also nothing to sneeze at either. Being in the top 100 when there are hundreds of millions of blogs out there is a very big accomplishment!



So let's look at what it takes to make the least, most popular blog and what type of success it has.

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5.13.2012

Advanced WordPress SEO Secrets Part 2



                                 
Well As you have Read our previous article on Wordpress SEO secrets.We at incomefigure bring you another article related to Wordpress SEO secrets.
I personally recommend the readers to read our Advanced Wordpress SEO Secrets Part 1
So than it will be more helpful and easy to understand as I have carried some stuff from our previous post.


So lets get started.Below are some key points so do read it.!.
  
Speed is an important part for every blog if you are looking to get search engine traffic. Google has loved fast loading blogs for some time now. Although some do not agree with this, I have only got more hits from search engines since optimizing my blog for speed. Check below plugins to get more hits on your site.

DB Cache – This plugin caches every database query with given lifetime. It is much faster than other html caching plugins and uses less disk space for caching.

WP Super Cache – This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WP CSS - This plugin GZIP and strip whitespace from your CSS files. It allows you to confidently use @import inside a CSS file and not worry about what happens on the user’s end. It will look through your style.css file and put any @import files into it. A cache expiry time can also be set.

PHP Speedy WP – PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages.

Optimize DB - For some People running WordPress, the use of phpMyAdmin appears to be a risky thing. There’s just too many options. This plugin lets you do just one simple task: optimize the tables of your database, to reduce their overhead.
Next time you are thinking about a webhost, pick one with a server that has speed.

Content Pages:

There is Another  secret in of our  “Wordpress SEO secrets” Called Content Pages.

Now let me tell you people what really it is.You see We need to get posting pure and simple, but firstly we need to work out a few things. Are we having static pages? we think you want them, and they don’t just want to be “about us” and “contact”

What is your ultimate keyword target? ..say over 3 years your site explodes, and you became the authority on your topic, what’s the ultimate glory ranking word/s?

Hopefully it will be in your domain name anyway, but if not, no matter, we optimize the front page for it, and get the correct variants and modifiers into the descending URL structure. So with our site as an example, income figure.com, obviously the ultimate targets are the big one worders, Wordpress SEO secrets SEO & Income Figure, it wouldn’t get any better than getting first page for both of those.. (but neither would exactly be “converting keywords” and so cost / benefit must always apply.


Page optimization is also important if your looking to improve your SEO on WordPress. 

The simple things you can do is use the breadcrumbs plugin so that you can show search engines around your Blog. It will be easier for search engines to find all your content and at a faster speed. Page numbers will also help your SEO so use the WordPress SEO Pager Plugin.In our previous post we have told you how you can increase you traffic.


So carefully optimize your top level (index) page for your ultimate target terms.

WordPress Post Plugins SEO:


It is important that you use plugins to help your WordPress SEO. There are many plugins that can do this for you but if you want the best SEO for WordPress there are a few that are better than others.
The one I use is either All in One SEO Pack or HeadSpace 2. They both let you optimize your titles, descriptions, and keywords of your posts. Both of them will do the same for your overall blog.

Download:



SEO Keywords:

As our main site targets the vast majority of the “proper” SEO keywords that we know convert (and some others too) we really use the blog mainly for supplementing content to “rank though” the site above, and for immediacy in the charts when required As our main site targets the vast majority of the “proper” SEO keywords.

Use the Google suggested phrases for your main keyword (at the bottom of the Google page) to help you if you are unsure, maybe “keyword authority” around a certain phrase (your top level one).

Check out this  Google Adwords and look at the traffic figures for each of the subterms, and cross-reference with what’s most relevant to your site and product, not what has the highest traffic. Targeting the wrong words and chasing impossible phrases is just silly, we want qualified, targeted traffic only, all the rest is mostly pointless.its an essential secret of our “WordPress SEO Secret”.

Filler posts these are as the name implies, exactly that, fodder to fill the gaps. However, that doesn't mean they should be poor, these are actually our favorite posts. Write about things you want to say, or get off your chest. Use humor as much as possible, make them as entertaining as you can.  

Link as out as relevant, inbound if it’s applicable, but don’t try to get SEO links in that don’t go with the story. It’s a chance to practice your writing skills and not worry too much about SEO for a change. So that’s the basics of WordPress SEO content creation in operation.I hope you would have liked our series of “WordPress SEO Secrets”. There are more to come in near future.

Title for WordPress SEO:



Title optimization is an important WordPress SEO Secret. You definitely need to download the plugins that I mentioned in number two. These plugins will allow you to insert any title that you want to have show up in Google for your article. It is important to write good titles that Google loves.Make sure that any keywords that you are targeting are at the front of your title. It seems that Google and other search engines give you a better ranking for the keywords at the beginning. Try not to use one of those automatic title makers.

<title> WordPress SEO Secret & Your Blog</title>

In this article we’re going to cover all aspects of blogging SEO , WordPress SEO Secret we are aiming to produce a comprehensive guide on how to SEO a blog WordPress SEO Secret, through to your content, site structure and strategies, we’re going to explode your Blogs SEO, WordPress SEO Secret until it ranks like a pro SEO (Income Figure) blog

Get the idea?  you’ve gotten all the words covered in easy natural language in the intro. Now just talk some more around it below, naturally, and you’re mostly there.This I condiser myself the most essential secret of our “WordPress SEO Secret”.

What to Write in Post:

One of the biggest problems faced by many many bloggers is what to write about on an ongoing basis, its often difficult to come up with new ideas and fresh material. But when you can get onto something important early, or even first, there is big potential for traffic, and picking up natural links by being one of the first into the SERP with a post about it.

Google also seem to possibly give extra long-lasting credence over and above the freshness factor to posts that were first in the charts,

We run Google alerts on our theme words, watch the big boys blogs, SEObook, SEOmoz etc, and just  generally keep an eye out for news or interesting stuff to expand on or add something to, and this is the key, make it your own, whether by adding in your personality, some extra information, or being controversial doesn’t really matter, just get onto it and get it ranking first or in the first 5 posts about it.

If youre 3 days late, it’s too late, don’t bother unless you can really add new value to it, no-ones interested in reading the same old thing re-hashed over and over.

Apply standard linking tactics (as per theme posts) and never be afraid to link out to the resource or competitors who break news, it probably helps bind you into the mix for the term, and definitely doesn’t hurt. (if they’re direct chart competitors just use bland anchor text, dont nofollow them it’s rude) If you’re linking to another WP blog post, the author will see it, and sometimes they’ll even link back at you 

if you’ve added anything of interest to the discusion.  ..More trackback power. (We run dofollow trackbacks guys, decent inbounds are rewarded, scrapers will be spammed as usual of course).These are our essential secret of “WordPress SEO Secret

 Our WordPress SEO Secret Results:

It is important to look at your SEO results so you know what is working and what is not working. However, make sure you give your article sometime to be indexed in the search engines and get a good ranking. I use WassUp so that I can look at live traffic coming to my blog. Many people use Google Analytics but I just use that past days. It doesn’t give you any live feedback on the traffic coming your Blog.

Conclusion:

So that’s where it ends today, hope it wasnt too hard work, and you’ve seen something you might not have thought about yet, but if not there’s plenty more to come.I hope this article may have provide you enough knowledge for you people to become a champ in SEO. As this was our motive in our article “Wordpress SEO secrets” I hope it has given you enough secrets that you may not known.Stay Tuned for more upcoming article related to “Wordpress SEO secrets”.

Source: - "Wordpress SEO secrets I by SEOibiza"

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What Happens When You Stop Blogging?



Many of you know what it's like. You start a blog and you have every intention of posting to it regularly. then after a while you start to lose interest in blogging.



You don't want to fill your blog up with the same old stuff everyone else is posting and slowly your posting frequency goes down to zero.



There are many of these sleeping or zombie blogs out there. I've had some. Heck, this one is one that I thought I'd be posting to more.



I also have another blog that was fairly popular but circumstances changed that prevented me from writing articles regularly for it.



Or, even worse things might have happened? Maybe you really did pass away. Well, not you personally or you wouldn't be reading this.



So what happens when you stop updating your blog?

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5.11.2012

How to write a SEO optimized Post For Wordpress




Are you finding it difficult in ranking higher on search engines? The real reason is because you are not writing SEO optimized Posts.

If you are a blog writer, or a copy writer, you can help customers discover your web page or content by writing an SEO (Search Engine Optimized) Content. You need to create articles that has key terms and can help customers discover your web page.

How to write a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) post on your website. If you want your content to always position No 1. You can check our already posted article on SEO. You can also follow the steps given below these are the top 10 aspects that might position your site.

Okay, this is what the top ten elements to put in every content you write.

1. Keyword title in your Post title! – Your keyword term should be included in the name of your post.

2. H1 heading with keyword phrase! – Your paragraph should be written in the largest heading size.. If you are using WORDPRESS it is HEADING 1, don’t really know what it is in blogger, but it is actually there… H1

3. Your wordpress posts should be not less than 300 words. Google is now very strict and its recent panda algorithm has harmed many webpages so protect yourself and write more than 300 words.

4. Inter linking– I never actually know how to say this. This one is like it is crucial. Link to your already published articles and posts or to a well known web page. Search engines simply loves to follow links.

5. Add Keyword phrase to last sentence – Add your keyword phrase too the last sentence.

6. Add alt tags- whenever you add a picture in your post always add alt tags. To read about what are these click here: Adding Alt Tags

7. Keyword Phrase in bold/strong tag – Write your keyword and Bold it

8. Add Keyword phrase to first sentence – Add your keyword phrase to the first sentence… If you are targeting just a word, then by all means make a phrase with it.

9. H2 heading with keyword phrase! – This should be like a little explanation of what you are to write, but it should also contains the keyword phrase you are writing about and also should be in HEADING 2

10. Try to add H3 heading with keyword phrase!

5.06.2012

Advanced WordPress SEO Secrets Part 1




Wordpress by default lacks in both on page and off page search engine optimization, Therefore we here at incomefigure have decided to write a series of articles on advanced wordpress SEO, so you can improve your website's SEO. There are lots of advanced wordpress SEO secrets which are not known to newbie bloggers, which can tweaked to get better search engine results. Before reading this article we would also suggest you to add the Wordpress plugins mentioned in our Post "6 Wordpress Plugins To Improve Your Blogs' Traffic" for best results.


Advanced Wordpress SEO Secrets




1. Use decent permalinks.



Never pressure over what kind, it’s really a issue of individual personal preference, provided that they are not still the  ?page_id=191 kind, it does not seem to issue too much. If they still are, you can use this tool to handle a switchover much more quickly than in the last.

We use the  2012/06/05/postname structure and it performs just excellent, you can create them look more attractive if you want to.

Important Note: Adjusting wordpress permanent links should be one of the first things you should do, if you want to imrpove your Wordpress SEO. 

2. Turn Trackbacks on.

Trackbacks are greatly underused on most WP set ups we see, and when they are used they are  mostly not enhanced.

3. Sidebar -use it.

Blogroll – in contrast to well-known viewpoint (seo mythlore) blogroll backlinks (inbound or outbound) will not “hurt you” but you do need to manage their juice submission by ahead considering,  as in where you weblink and why, but this is a topic all on it’s own we’ll get returning to it in one of the long run content.

4. All-in-One-SEO pack



We recommend two all in one seo pack to you to use. HeadSpace and Seo sniper BUT The Platinum SEO Plugin basically picks up where All-in-One leaves off.

But do ensure:
Title is rewriting is on  %post_title% | %blog_title%
Categories and Archives Noindex /Follow (Tags optional, ours are Noindexed)

5. Dofollow Case by Case

Excellent tool, which allows us granular management over each and every weblink on the website that we can get to the URL of. Generally they are all on (followed) unless we choose to no follow them for any purpose. You just add /dontfollow.

6. Redirection – just ensure it’s on and working.

7. XML Sitemaps - not much to do here, activate it on, build the map, ignore.