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SEO Help From Expert

techieDan — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:33:42 +0000

Finally you created your website. Problem is you published the site and expecting people to locate your webpage on the Internet search engines. After few days, you use the search engine and still could not find lots of searches for your site. Something must be wrong. What do we call these? That is where something called Search Engine Optimization comes into mind.

Nowadays there are many people out there who sought help from SEO experts to help garner hits to their websites, thus ensuring that they are back on top of the search engines. One can also look at SEO tips from SEO sites like 2chix Seo Service Company which has a very funky name to it. 2chix? Well considerably it is really 2 females behind the foundation of this company that will help in your SEO ranking.

TechieDan ain’t gonna lie, as his website still has moderate SEO elements to help push him up the search engines, but there are also many SEO alternatives not done yet. One simple SEO that I can teach you is do write proper names for your post. If you still do not get it, you may consult me for some simple help.

Of course SEO is not really for anyone and also not for those who does not want the unnecessary limelight to their personal blogs. Though there is a catch, if you do not bother about SEO and you are running CPM ads on your blog, you will lose the big fish. Of course, but that is another story though.

Favorite SEO WordPress Plugins

techieDan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:03:30 +0000

You have already gotten your domain name and I presume that you’re going to start installing WordPress to start your blog engine. Problem though is after many days of posting so many things online, why not many people are visiting your site. What is wrong? Well, here are few simple steps and few plugins which TechieDan would recommend to use.

In every blog that wants to promote or to tell out something to the world wide web, there must be a meaning. Imagine who is going to know what post you’re writing if let’s say your title is “Apartment with the gang” when actually what you wanted to present was “Dinner at Apartment Restaurant“. Strangers might not even bothered looking at your site. Friends will, if they are part of the gang though. These are what we called search engine friendlies or rather SEO (Search Engine Optimization). But easier said than done.

There is another thing which most bloggers do which is the link to a blog. Imagine this, if techiedan.com links point to a http://techiedan.com/p=123 or http://techiedan.com/2009/09/28/opening-raw-photo-formats-in-photoshop/. Which one would be more meaningful? Yes, the second one would be the most viable choice. Why? It presents itself clearly and in the case you need to get back to the link, you can always check back through history for the link via your browser.

A lot of people thought that blogging only deals with what you write should just be enough, most don’t understand how is wordpress running though. Basically there are lots of other things like XML which helps out a lot.

So far so good, the few steps of starting your wordpress experience. How about some plugins to boost your web search.

Google XML Sitemaps Generator Now your blog is up and ready. What better way to start than to create a sitemap for google to cache your site faster. With this, one’s blog would be able to notify google of new contents. This enables one’s site to be indexed by majority of the search engines.

All in One SEO Pack Well, this should be the Mother of all SEO packs for the WordPress. With title naming conventions and friendly links to post title and page titles, this would be the ultimate of handling most of your SEO friendly links. Even META tags, Blog Description is inside this monster of a kind.

Akismet A must have for all bloggers. Well for the first few days or rather months there would be hardly any traffic but wait till after awhile, your blog will get spam like no one’s business. Definitely a must have for most bloggers on the wordpress engine. At least you’re more least likely to have superb spam comments on your post comments.

These are just a few of the recommended plugins that TechieDan would recommend. It’s good to go for a headstart. There are lots and lots of other plugins available on the world wide web. If you feel that other plugins deserve a note, why not leave a comment and share with the whole TechieDan community right here. What’s more, it’ll help bloggers who are lost to get right back on track.

Permalinks Setting for Localhost

techieDan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:00:40 +0000

WampServer has been a very good tool to do your own localized php programming. So happens though, TechieDan has been experimenting with WordPress offline to design templates. Though there was an error when setting it up with permalinks that displays the title.

Tech Talk : A reason to display your wordpress in the specified URL is so that it would be SEO friendly. Users and readers would be able to search for your post and even robots from the world wide web would be able to detect the URL easily with relative keywords.

Here was the proposed link to be done locally.

http://localhost/2009/09/29/permalinks-set-for-localhost/

By doing so, the link should work only to return a 404 error. Opps.. Looks like the location doesn’t exist. You tried looking about in the wordpress settings to see what has been done wrong. Then only to find that the solution lies in the php wampserver itself.

If you have WampServer installed. Open your httpd.conf file under Apache selection.Now do the following.

Locate the line below in the httpd.conf file.

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

After doing so, uncomment the line stated by removing the ‘#’ symbol from it. It should now appear like this.

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

These are so far the most basic required to get your wordpress to function properly on a WampServer. This guide was written in reference to a deeper reference I got from Lancelhoff.

FeedBurner Migrated To Google

techieDan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Are you a blogger that wants to deliver news to your readers? How can you do that? Can your user subscribe to your blog and get the latest blog post? Yes, if you’re using WordPress, one can subscribe to you using the RSS feeds located on your blog.

Now the question though, is how to keep track on the amount of readers on your blog? One possible way is by using FeedBurner. But then something changed!!!!

Google acquired Feedburner a few months back, and while I was using Feedburner, the feeds don’t seem to be updated. Using Google Reader to read my feeds, I detect that my feed wasn’t updated and decided to have a check on Feedburner. It looks like Google has migrated the feed reading of Feedburner to another domain name.

Now instead of www.feedburner.com, one should access to the new feeds using feedburner.google.com. But of course if you’re an exisiting user of feedburner, log in first to feedburner.com to move your feeds to the new feeds in feedburner.google.com so that you can get your new feed link.

If you’re still clueless on what are feeds and stuffs, here’s where one can get started. Start by trying to click on the Subscribe to RSS logo on the top right or on this FEED LINK itself. You’ll learn more.

Or Subscribe By Clicking This Giant RSS Icon

In that way, after choosing your reader, you can now catch the latest news from your favorite blog.

Alexa Ranking Dramatic Shift

techieDan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:17 +0000

It was 8:30am in the morning 17th April 2008(to the States it might be 8:30pm 16th April) and I logged in into my Personal Computer. Guessed what, I was shocked to see my Alexa Ranking dropped from 700k to 2 million ++. Oh my, what is happening??

I think that Alexa has started to change their ranking for webs and blogs alike. I see a sudden dramatic change to the alexa ranking that I was trying to search for an answer on the world wide web. Seems so far not a tid bit mention about it.

Either they have gone the google ranking way and decided to modify and enhance their codes. Or they perhaps had some glitch in their code and debugging it. Well, imagine from 700k to 2 million drop is a lot. I would go for the new codes that they are implementing. Let’s wait for more news from Alexa before we confirm it yeah.

Slight Update : Looks like it was announced on Alexa Blog with the new Alexa Ranking system.

Some excerpts from the site….

aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, but you can expect to see new features rolled out over the coming weeks and months.

Looks like we can look forward to a new style of rank for Alexa Rank

Google PR Reconsideration

techieDan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:49:34 +0000

I’ve heard of the numerous rumors. Yes, people who has been doing paid postings and excessively doing it has been slapped with the google PR. They have been slapped wth a PR0 thus reducing their chances to do paid postings. Well, how does one get back their Page Rank after that?

Some bloggers even go to the extend that they wanted to abandon their website all due to this. So now they wanted to get back their Page Rank. How do they do it? TechieDan will now show you the steps and information.

If you’re seriously considering to get back you Page Rank, do the following.

If you’re doing paid posting, clean up your links once again and add the rel=”nofollow” tag.
Avoid selling links on your site, or if you have to, make it minimal
Login to Google.com and request for consideration once again.

While requesting for consideration, write a reason as to why you’re requesting consideration and what steps you did. Hope this helps. If there are any other tips, don’t mind posting it here!

Google XML Sitemaps Generator	Now your blog is up and ready. What better way to start than to create a sitemap for google to cache your site faster. With this, one’s blog would be able to notify google of new contents. This enables one’s site to be indexed by majority of the search engines.
All in One SEO Pack	Well, this should be the Mother of all SEO packs for the WordPress. With title naming conventions and friendly links to post title and page titles, this would be the ultimate of handling most of your SEO friendly links. Even META tags, Blog Description is inside this monster of a kind.
Akismet	A must have for all bloggers. Well for the first few days or rather months there would be hardly any traffic but wait till after awhile, your blog will get spam like no one’s business. Definitely a must have for most bloggers on the wordpress engine. At least you’re more least likely to have superb spam comments on your post comments.