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Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as well as categories and archives listings.
Basically, permalinks is just a fancy word for the URL that get’s created when you make a post on your Wordpress blog. By default, Wordpress permalinks are not very SEO-friendly.
Wordpress permalinks are dynamic and are formatted like any common PHP-based site. That is, with page and post ID’s rather than actual keywords. Although your site will still index, from an SEO-perspective it is much better to try to find a way to get keywords in the URL.
So how do I change…
I spoke at Wordpress WordCamp Columbus over the weekend. It was a great experience! My thanks goes out to Jason Blanton and his team for putting the event together, and to Nate Riggs for getting me involved!
The SEO panel session lasted about 45 minutes, and we covered many topics and received tons of great questions and feedback. Thanks to those who took the time to attend! An additional thanks goes out to Eric Leslie and Evan Metelko for being a part of the SEO panel.
I will look…
I will be speaking tomorrow at Wordpress WordCamp Columbus! I am part of a panel that will focus on Wordpress-related SEO strategies. I am very excited for this opportunity and hope to convey my passion for Wordpress and SEO to all of those in attendance!
About Wordpress WordCamp
WordCamp Columbus will be held at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio on May 16, 2009. Many of the details are still being worked out but the day will include keynotes, breakout sessions, networking and lunch. If you would like to help spread the…
Wordpress is in my experience, the#1 blogging and free website platform out there. There are many others like Wordpress, such as Blogger, SquareSpace, TypePad, Moveable Type, etc.
However, the open-source capabilities and the vast community of users that Wordpress offers far exceeds that of their competitors.
Wordpress makes things easy for design-gurus and design-newbies alike. If you want to build a Wordpress site from scratch, they have the Wordpress Codex. If you want a design that is already completed, there are several great Wordpress Theme directories out there (
In this article, I will explain how to make your Wordpress META Description more SEO-friendly using Wordpress Conditional Tags. If you followed my last post, I spoke about Optimizing Your Wordpress Title Tags to make them more search-friendly. Basically, you should be able to use both for a fairly effective optimization of your Wordpress blog (without having to use any plugins).
Wordpress & META Tags
As you all know, Wordpress does not include META Tags by default. It is up to each user to add their own META…
Optimizing your Wordpress site’s title tag should be very easy, however by default it’s not. If you don’t know anything about SEO or PHP, then it may be difficult for you to get your Wordpress Title Tags to format that way you want (and in an SEO-friendly manner).
In a normal website, your <title> tag is located somewhere in the <head></head> section of your site. This is the same for Wordpress, however since Wordpress pages are dynamically generated using PHP you will need to go into the ‘header.php’ file to find your site’s <title> tags.
By default, the <title> tag…
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