Articles for 'SEO'

New Must Have WordPress SEO Plugin

New Must Have WordPress SEO Plugin

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December 20 th

Thanks to Joost de Valk from yoast.com for this fantastic new WordPress SEO plugin. The perfect all in one SEO solution for your blog-in fact I was able to remove 5 SEO plugins on PimpMyWordPress (All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemap, Robots Meta, Yoast Breadcrumbs and the RSS Footer). Plugin Features: Post title [...]

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How To Customise Your BuddyPress URL

How To Customise Your BuddyPress URL

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February 24 th

After the arrival of BuddyPress version 1.2, I have been immersing myself in it as much as possible. I have started working on a few BuddyPress projects and for the next few weeks I will share some of my discoveries and learnings by posting some tutorials and tips. By customising your URL there are benefits [...]

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Analytics360 Brings Google Analytics Stats Into Your Dashboard

Analytics360 Brings Google Analytics Stats Into Your Dashboard

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September 2 nd

I have discoverd a new WordPress Plugin called Analytics360 created by the people of MailChimp.com.   It lets you check your Google Analytics stats directly into your dashboard. The plugin is really easy to install and you don’t  need to have a MailChimp account to use it.   Simply synchronize the plugin with your Google [...]

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How To Optimise Your WordPress Ping List

How To Optimise Your WordPress Ping List

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May 28 th

I came across a lot of blogs not touching their default list of “ping” URL. Blogger’s need to pay more attention to their Ping list. Ping helps you to inform Ping inform search engine and blog directories when you have updated your blog by sending XML-RPC ping each time you create a post. Of course [...]

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40 WordPress Optimisation Tips

40 WordPress Optimisation Tips

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May 5 th

The Dutch WordPress developer and SEO guru Joost de Valk (yoast.com) just went to the Affiliate Marketing Conference A4UExpo Europe. He gave a speech on WordPress Optimisation, giving 40 tips in 40 minutes. After his trip back he shared his slides that were full of great tips to improve your WordPress blog performance: WordPress Optimisation [...]

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Optimizing The WordPress Permalink Structure

Optimizing The WordPress Permalink Structure

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April 18 th

By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and page ID numbers http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/?p=123. WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure to be more search engine and user friendly by changing the link structure.  I personally prefer to use  /category/post-name/ to for example http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/wordpress-themes/10-beautiful-dark-colour-wordpress-themes. To apply this setting, go under [...]

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Eliminate Duplicate Content With Canonical URL Tag

Eliminate Duplicate Content With Canonical URL Tag

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March 17 th

Duplicate content has been a challenge for a long time for website owners and search engines. Often blogs end up with several urls for each post making it difficult for search engines to crawl only one unique content. So thanks go to the joint effort from Google, Yahoo and MSN to create this new Canonical [...]

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