One SEO signal that’s gotten a lot of attention over the last few years is site speed. We all know we should be making our sites faster, but how much difference does it really make in terms of SEO? (more…)
Data Says: Is Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Worth the Effort?
This is PART 3 of our short series titled “How Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Can Improve SEO.”
- Can a Community Built Around Your WordPress Site Improve SEO? (Part 1)
- Step by Step: How to Build a Community Around Your WordPress Site (Part 2)
- Data Says: Is Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Worth the Effort? (Part 3)
Step by Step: How to Build a Community Around Your WordPress Site
This is PART 2 of our short series titled “How Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Can Improve SEO.”
- Can a Community Built Around Your WordPress Site Improve SEO? (Part 1)
- Step by Step: How to Build a Community Around Your WordPress Site (Part 2)
- Data Says: Is Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Worth the Effort? (Part 3)
Can a Community Built Around Your WordPress Site Improve SEO?
This is PART 1 of our short series titled “How Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Can Improve SEO.”
- Can a Community Built Around Your WordPress Site Improve SEO? (Part 1)
- Step by Step: How to Build a Community Around Your WordPress Site (Part 2)
- Data Says: Is Building a Community Around Your WordPress Site Worth the Effort? (Part 3)
Active
communities – like online forums – are perhaps not the sexiest thing to
talk about these days in terms of SEO. After all, Google wants us to
believe that whatever content we create needs to come from us, needs to be unique, and the longer it is the better.But
is it really the case? Is SEO a one blogger’s game? Or maybe we can do
something to make our work easier, and give our WordPress sites a boost
in an old-school way. Are forums and active user communities back?
Bill’s experience says they are. He has some really cool data to share, along with tutorials on how you can replicate his results and improve your SEO.Karol
Bill’s experience says they are. He has some really cool data to share, along with tutorials on how you can replicate his results and improve your SEO.Karol
Enter Bill Belew
Have you ever asked yourself, “How hard is it to get an army of people to create good content for me at my WordPress site?”And, “If I could get my followers to do that, would it help me long term with SEO?”
Most importantly: (more…)
How to Boost Your Ecommerce SEO With a Few WordPress Tweaks
This is a guest post by Catalin Zorzini. Oh SEO,
the dreaded three letters that make just about every ecommerce
webmaster cringe. You look at Google and search for your keywords and
realize that all of your sales depend on how well your site ranks on the
first page, especially since 70 percent of users never scroll past the
first page.You can grab one of the top notch ecommerce platforms
for some nice SEO features, but this usually doesn’t solve all your
problems. The key is making those little tweaks, the things that not
everyone does to push you slightly above your competitors and improve
your sales dramatically.
Everyone tries to optimize their sites, but it seems to be the simple things that help you improve overall and get over those one or two search engine spot hurdles you are yearning for.
Let’s take a look at a few WordPress tweaks to help boost your ecommerce SEO within a few minutes. (more…)
Everyone tries to optimize their sites, but it seems to be the simple things that help you improve overall and get over those one or two search engine spot hurdles you are yearning for.
Let’s take a look at a few WordPress tweaks to help boost your ecommerce SEO within a few minutes. (more…)
The Basics of WordPress SEO for Designers: How to Improve Your Portfolio
This is a guest post by Dragan Nikolic.
Website optimization is not only a merely technical thing. You can do
all the tagging, do your meta descriptions, keyword research and other
handy things that we are going to touch a bit deeper in the article, but
it would mean so much more if it’s supported by content.Your
website is not supposed to be read by machines. They are here only to
assist the transfer of information and knowledge between your WordPress
blog or portfolio to your visitors. Following all the SEO guidelines for
optimizing your portfolio must be accompanied with content. Visually
appealing, informative, coherent and semantically correct content. (more…)
Squirrly SEO Plugin – What it Does and Does it Work
SEO
is the name of the game in online writing. SEO stands for Search Engine
Optimization. Basically, it’s the idea of optimizing your site for
visibility on search engines.
Usually
to have good SEO, you have to check yourself constantly to make sure
you’re putting keywords in all available places and optimizing their
placement and usage. This takes constant concentration and a lot of time and effort. That’s where the Squirrly SEO plugin comes in. (more…)
Using Copy and Paste for SEO Purposes with WordPress
As you’re browsing the web, what’s one of the main things that
you’re always doing? You’re always copy and pasting. Links, pictures,
emails; you name it, you’ve copy and pasted it. Being an owner or
employee of a WordPress site, you’d like that when people copy and paste
content from your site, you get some credit for your work and maybe
even a little bit of automatic advertising. You’ve seen it done. You
sometimes copy and paste something and something else shows up with it; a
little tidbit of text with words like “Read more at:” and then a link
back to where you got the content. Well now you too can use this
incredibly useful function with WordPress.
function add_copyright_text() {
if (is_single()) { ?>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function addLink() {
if (
window.getSelection().containsNode(
document.getElementsByClassName('entry-content')[0], true)) {
var body_element = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
var selection;
selection = window.getSelection();
var oldselection = selection
var pagelink = "<br /><br /> Read more: <?php the_title(); ?> <a href='<?php echo get_permalink(get_the_ID()); ?>'><?php echo get_permalink(get_the_ID()); ?></a>"; //Change this if you like
var copy_text = selection + pagelink;
var new_div = document.createElement('div');
new_div.style.left='-99999px';
new_div.style.position='absolute';
body_element.appendChild(new_div );
new_div.innerHTML = copy_text ;
selection.selectAllChildren(new_div );
window.setTimeout(function() {
body_element.removeChild(new_div );
},0);
}
}
document.oncopy = addLink; </script>
<?php } }
add_action( 'wp_head', 'add_copyright_text');Editorial Staff, wpbeginner
For PasteBin version of code above, see http://pastebin.com/HSr4tYJ4.
All you have to do is take that code and paste it into Appearance > Editor > Theme Functions – functions.php in
WordPress, and it’s up and running on your site. If you’re using a link
shortening service such as tinyurl.com, change get_permalink to
wp_get_shortlink.
Well it’s all nice and
everything that you can do that, but now you want to make another
website and you really want to use this awesome tool. You go to your old
site and begin the tedious job of searching through your functions.php
file for the right bit of code. Why go through all that stress and time
when you can just make a plugin in the first place that can be used with
any theme or site?
Starting
The first thing to do is fire up a text editor. Notepad or TextEdit will be fine. Open up with a PHP tag,
/* Plugin Name: Copy and Paste Add-on Plugin URI: N/A Description: Adds on text to any copy and paste which backlinks to the specified site. Original Code for Plugin Template: http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-your-own-super-simple-wordpress-plugins/ Original Code for Copy and Paste: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-read-more-link-to-copied-text-in-wordpress/ Version: 1.0 Author: Tzvi Joffre Author URI: N/A License: GPL2 */
For PasteBin version of code above, see http://pastebin.com/g6Tuv9RP.
The Main Part
Just take the code and paste it right below the header. You don’t
need to worry about the PHP closing tag. In this case, it should look
something like this:
<!--?php
/*
Plugin Name: Copy and Paste Add-on
Plugin URI: N/A
Description: Adds on text to any copy and paste which backlinks to the specified site.
Original Code for Plugin Template: http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-your-own-super-simple-wordpress-plugins/
Original Code for Copy and Paste: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-read-more-link-to-copied-text-in-wordpress/
Version: 1.0
Author: Tzvi Joffre
Author URI: N/A
License: GPL2
*/
if (is_single()) { ?>// <![CDATA[
function addLink() {
if (
window.getSelection().containsNode(
document.getElementsByClassName('entry-content')[0], true)) {
var body_element = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
var selection;
selection = window.getSelection();
var oldselection = selection
var pagelink = "
Read more: <a href=''>"; //Change this if you like
var copy_text = selection + pagelink;
var new_div = document.createElement('div');
new_div.style.left='-99999px';
new_div.style.position='absolute';
body_element.appendChild(new_div );
new_div.innerHTML = copy_text ;
selection.selectAllChildren(new_div );
window.setTimeout(function() {
body_element.removeChild(new_div );
},0);
}
document.oncopy = addLink;
// ]]>
For PasteBin version of code above, see http://pastebin.com/kQcFmS9f.Saving your File
Make sure when you’re saving your file to put in the .php
extension. If you name it copypasteadd, you need to save it as
copypasteadd.php. If your text editor gets fussy, write it in
parentheses “copypasteaddd.php.”
Finishing Up
You’re going to want to use your plugin, so now let’s go over how
to install it. You’re going to need an FTP program such as FileZilla
and know how to use it. All you have to do is upload the plugin file to
wp-content/plugins in your WordPress directory. Then go to Plugins
screen and find the plugin in the list and click Activate Plugin. Once
you’ve done that, you’re finished. Congratulations, you’ve now gone a
step further in spreading the word about your site.
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