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Archive for April, 2008

Sunday
Apr 27,2008

I remember me very well the last website project meetings with customers:

Why is my website so small? There is so much space to right and the left, why is this? Most of the people I know having laptops / computers with wide screens.

Sure, those customers have a point; the average computer equipment becomes still better. They are faster, having modern web browsers and most of all they have faster Internet connections.

But what is the future of the Internet?
A few years ago if someone asked me to use my mobile phone to surf the Internet I answered: ”No, I don’t like to hurt my eyes with this tiny screen”.

Since the last years there are bigger displays for mobile phones and there are PDA’s and handheld PC’s. At least since my wife got her new LG mobile phone I like to surf the net by phone ;) (more…)

Monday
Apr 14,2008

This is part 2 in our series on how to optimize your Wordpress blog for Google. In our earlier post we discussed how to avoid the duplicate content penalty when blogging with the Wordpress blogging software; today, we are going to share how to optimize your Wordpress blog for search engine friendliness especially for the Google search engine.

Interlinking your blog posts

Since your blog should be topically related anyway, you should have no problem referencing previous post from time to time in new blog postings. Also, it wouldn’t hurt to edit your older blog postings to include topically related links for new posts. Not only does this help to improve your internal linking structure, it can also help improve keyword relevancy for certain pages if you’re using keyword focused, or descriptive, anchor text for your internal URL’s.

Another approach to boost the link popularity and improve the visibility of your blogs internal pages is to offer a sitemap, one which will benefit users and work to help with search engine spidering. (more…)