Let me share something with you that I have always suspected, but never had the data to prove.
Google is increasing focus on quality measurements which is translating into actual ranking factors. Recent updates have shifted some ranking factor weighting form keyword relevancy to quality criteria.
But first, a little background reading…
Once you have an established blog with a lot of content, I am sure that one day you will need to make some global mass updates to the data in your WordPress database tables. Sometimes there might be an admin panel to make the changes that you need, but usually the admin panel does not cater for the case when you need to make hundreds of similar updates.
If you have a blog with a wide variety of categories, you might want to exclude some categories from your WordPress RSS feed so you do not spam your readers with too much unnecessary content.
I run another Web Design blog and the community of readers supply “news” content to the blog. Since there are about 20 news items per day, I need to exclude the News category from the main RSS feed.
There are millions of WordPress blogs on the internet and there are also many different opinions on which is the best WordPress permalink structure. If you search for “best wordpress permalink structure”, there millions of results and this article will also contribute to that collection!
The key to your business’ online success is to have an effective SEO strategy. But not many people understand the components of SEO and what steps they can take to improve their rankings in search results.
But first, to clear any confusion about what SEO actually is, I’ll go over the definition again. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a site’s visibility in the unpaid / organic section of search engine result pages (SERPs). The usual ways to improve your site’s SEO is to determine the keywords most relevant to your site, featuring high quality content on it, regularly updating your site with new content, optimizing your site’s HTML and the overall user experience.
Tactics to Deal with Spam Comments and RSS Autoblog Leechers
Categories: Blogging Tips, SEO
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If you are running your own moderately popular blog, it doesn’t take long until comment spammers start targeting your blog with their useless spam comments. Another problem are the RSS Autoblog Leechers that copy and repost your content on their blog.
In this article, I’ll discuss tactics that you can use to turn the tables on the spammers and leechers and actually turn the negatives into a positive outcome for your site.
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