I have yet to do any SEO training with anybody without this question being asked. As with most things SEO, there is not a clear cut answer of “you must update every x days / hours”. This article will help you understand what is needed for your website. I’ve divided it into two sections, one for Read More
This post is about using tags for SEO in WordPress, but it applies to any publishing software that uses tags. Lets start with the basics : Should I use tags or not? There are two main arguments I hear repeatedly. Unfortunately they are at loggerheads: 1. Pro Tags argument: Tags are great for SEO. The Read More
Since adding posting about how to install the official Twitter Tweet button yesterday I have noticed an unfortunate side effect. The button slows down the load time of wordpress sites significantly. Originally I had placed the button at the top and bottom of each post on the index page. I have since removed the twitter Read More
Look! The official Twitter tweet button is here! Get the official Twitter Tweet Code. Ah, but it’s not quite so straight forward for a WordPress site. Adding the official button to WordPress (like on this site) takes a little more. The code you get from using the Twitter generator I linked to above looks like Read More
The default way that WordPress displays your page/post/comment/tag pages title is to have the blog name, followed by two >> marks and then the post title, tag title, comment title, or just the blog name if it is the home page. Here is how to do some simple optimisation (ok ok optimization just for you Read More
Web design and SEO should be symbiotic. After all, there is no point having a wonderful looking site if nobody can find it. This site, by contrast, has no design whatsoever. It can however be found. Am I saying that SEO is more important than Web design? Not really. A good web designer will incorporate Read More
Spam Blogs (splogs) are bad enough. There is nothing worse than landing on a site only to find that there is no useful information and that the blogs only purpose is to create links to other sites or to generate revenue through Adsense. For those of us who maintain blogs though, the comment spam is Read More
What relationship does link positioning on external sites have with the effectiveness of a link for delivering results to your site? (I’m just going to stop for a breather after that horrible sentence… the rest will be better… honest) Some would argue that links are links and you take them where you can get them. Read More
How vital is on page SEO to overall SEO efforts? On page SEO is absolutely vital. On its own, on page SEO will not get you far. Without it however, your overall SEO efforts will not get far. This is where a lot of people make lots of mistakes though. There is not a lot Read More
I’ve neglected my blogging for a little while. This was for two reasons. The first one was that I have finally got started on my website (WEbshed.ie). SEO training is the blog for that site really, since it is all about SEO. I still have a heap of work to do on it, but at Read More
