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November 10, 2006

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Effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of WordPress Blogs

Let’s first look at a list of items of some proven to work SEO tips for blogs. These are required for effective search engine optimization of your WordPress. After which we will see the steps to achieve all of these. Search engine friendly URLs [also known as SEF] Unique title for all the pages [also posts] in your blog site Meta tags for all pages and posts [Applicable to only few search engines] Keywords in your URL and content Sitemap

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November 9, 2006

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Robots.txt Exclusion Implementation Guide

If you are reading this article and looking for information to implement robots.txt, I assume that you are a webmaster and know how robots txt file work. For those who do not know much about robots.txt, here is some information about it. What is robots.txt and do I need it? The robots.txt file is a structured text file that is placed in root folder of a website which then tells the search engine spiders about the files/folders/URLs that needs to

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Posted in: Google AdSense | SEO | Web Design/Dev | WordPress

November 8, 2006

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How To: Conditional Display of AdSense in WordPress

My initial requirement was to be able to display Google Ads in the content and in the sidebar too. I installed AdSense-Deluxe thinking that it will take care of both of my requirements. The plugin does a very good job of displaying ads but it displays ads inside content only. I wanted to be able to display ads in sidebar too! Instead of searching for another plugin which can do that, I wrote a small script in my theme’s ‘functions.php‘

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Posted in: Google AdSense | Web Design/Dev | WordPress

November 7, 2006

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Google Blog Search Pinging Service

Did you know that you can now ping Google blogsearch from your WordPress and many other blogging softwares to keep Google updated about changes that you make in your blogs? For blogs with XML-RPC ping support If your blogging software (WordPress does! ) supports XML-RPC based pinging, then use the following URL in your software for automatic pinging to Google blogsearch. RPC endpoint: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 (Copy paste this URL in appropriate location inside your blogging admin section) For blogs without ping

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