Google, SEO
Optimizing your Wordpress Blog for Google: Part 2
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 [...]
Optimizing your Wordpress Blog for Google: Part 1
How to avoid the duplicate content penalty when using a Wordpress blog
There’s no denying it, Google is the powerhouse of the internet; more than capable of showering targeted visitors on your website like a torrential downpour backed by gale-force winds. That is, if you happen to be in Google’s good graces and rank [...]
Yes, Google has “cutted” my PageRank too!
Like a lot of other weblogs this “Web Development Blog” has lost today 2 points in PageRank (went from 5 to 3). A week ago I had the idea that this blog will get a PR6 based on the information I got via the Google webmaster tools. After reading about PR drops from Andy Beard, [...]
Google guidelines against modern web development?
Any web developer knows it:
Create websites according the Google’s Webmaster Guidelines!
If you read the current blog post from Google Webmaster Central these Guidelines are not changed. Only the help pages are extended and give more information about each rule.
About the rule “Hidden text and links” there is the following information available:
Hiding text or links [...]
The PR factor and ranking websites
Is Google PR getting more importance than is due to it? It would seem so considering the barrage of threads on different webmaster forums with respect to the impending PR update. DP, Sitepoint, Namepros all have various threads where one of the members seems to have noticed a PR change to one of his sites [...]
