I have noticed in recent weeks a renewal of an old link spam strategy that could be putting your site’s search reputation at risk. We all know that linking to sites that contain malware or pornography can diminish your site’s search rankings. Imagine having a dozen or more links – it could be devastating to [...]
If you have a blog and you accept comments then to all intents and purposes, you are a hand moderator for the search engines. As such, the web relies on you to get it right. In fact, the authority (read ranking) may also depend on it.
What do I mean by hand moderator? Every link that [...]
If you are a WordPress user then you may have noticed a news piece on Weblogtools Collection that raises a few questions about pinging your own posts – is it good or bad? Pinging is the process of notifying another blog that you have referenced them in your post – it is also known as [...]
WordPress has proven to be one of the most popular blogging tools in use, however, there are so many features that go unused by most users. Most bloggers write posts each and every day and leave it at that. There are other publishing options and one of those is to publish a ‘Page’ instead of [...]
Static websites can be a pain when it comes to adding fresh content on a regular basis. This is one of the many reasons why blogs and blogging become popular – fresh content every day and not a programmer in site. Creating content each and every day has the potential to draw in more long [...]
We have often proclaimed the benefits of blogging on our humble blog. We have also written numerous posts on keeping your blog software up-to-date. If you are running a WordPress blog, these last couple of days have made this all the more important.
There is what I have seen described as a ‘worm’ wandering through the [...]
There has been a lot said about the recent DOS (denial of service) attack on Twitter so it is a timely reminder to check your blogging software to ensure it is up-to-date. There are two schools of thought when it comes to software such as WordPress; keep updating the moment there is a new release, [...]
Blogging has proven to be an inexpensive activity that can really boost search rankings and with it the amount of traffic a site receives. What many business owners fail to understand with a blog is that it is often serving two masters – the website it is trying to support and it’s own presence. Too [...]
Last week I wrote about header elements (often referred to as header tags) for web pages in a post titled Are Header Tags Effective SEO Tools? Today I want to address the same issue with regard to blogging.
I mentioned in that previous post that the general guidelines for using the header element seem to have [...]
Chances are if you’re blogging then you are using WordPress and if so, you have probably noticed the constant stream of messages telling you your software is out of date. If you are using a version older than 2.7 then it is way out of date and could be vulnerable to attack from those who [...]