Updating Permalinks when moving to WordPress 2.5
Tonight I updated Wordpress from Wordpress 2.0.2 to WordPress 2.5 and ran into some issues with permanlinks. Turns out that Yahoo! Web Hosting does not allow you to do Permalinks the standard way with WordPress and you have to use the Yahoo! Plugin for this.
Essentially what happened was that standard permalinks in WordPress go 404 [...]
Internal Link Architecture for your website
Part of any link building campaign should always include the internal Link Architecture that you have within your domain and off the domain for link building activities. I tend to use the term Link Architecture because it is similar to the Information Architecture (I.A.) that is used within your site. The Link Architecture will give [...]
Read more →Being prepared and doing research pays off
Over the past week I have seen two of the most horrific examples of why research is so important. It is what we base our decision making on in our work lives, it is how we evangelize our expertise on to others, etc. Doing the right amount of research sets you up for success.
Here are [...]
Sculpting PageRank using rel=”nofollow” for Link Architecture
Over the years I’ve been practicing a lot of different techniques with my internal link architecture. One of the things that I have been doing more and more of is evaluating when to use the rel=”nofollow” tag on the internal links.
Why is this important?
Well, in order to make the content within your site more relevant, [...]
My searches have led me to Elitizmr
During my daily web research I tend to try to come across some interesting sources to get some good social media links to control my name searches in the SERPs.
That being said, we all know about the main players in the game like Digg, Flickr, MySpace, etc. But, sometimes, you can come across a [...]
Digg Revolt: Digg’s dependancy on its users nears addiction
This last week has had some interesting events occur over the big revolt against Digg. Now, big news sites like Wired, NY Times, etc. have posted stories, many people are talking about it on twitter, etc. The question is whether or not these constant issues being brought to the forefront are going to [...]
Read more →Does Microsoft’s Live Search Club help increase search market share?
According to the Nielsen online reports it seems like Microsoft has increased its search market share from 12% to 13.8% in December from the previous month. (See MarketWatch Article) All things considered it seem that Microsoft has picked up close to 2% of the search market, a big gain for the company. So, [...]
Read more →Social Media – Part 2: Dominating the Search Engine Results Pages
Last week I talked about how to stay active, answer questions, etc. to keep brand awareness high and reputation management under control. This week, I’m going to give you an overview of how to dominate the SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) by using Social Media to your advantage.
We all know since the “Web 2.0 [...]
Social Media – Part 1: Being Active in your Community and Answering Questions
I’ve wanted to start writing more about Social Media and I think the best way to start would be to talk abut what I love doing, and that is building my own personal brand and how it applies to an organization as well.
I have always considered it to be tremendously important in getting my name [...]
Web Standards based design and SEO – Calling out the industry in 2008
So, I figured to ring in the New Year of 2008, I would post about how the whole SEO industry should really start to take an understanding of Web Standards in the design of Websites. Semantic Web Design and using CSS for layouts is not really cutting edge people!! We have been doing [...]
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