With Google algorithm becoming more intelligent with each passing day, the margin for errors has significantly reduced over the past decade. Back in the day, you might get away with keyword stuffing but today, the same offense will strike off your website from Google search engine results. No one wants that, right. To save you
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How Easy Is It to Perform SEO?
Posted onThe word “viral” has received a lot of attention over the last few years and is applied to different types of content to describe how quickly it has spread and gained popularity. Many times, you’ll hear people speak about their idea and how fast it will spread while assuming that it will “go viral”, but
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Search Engine Friendly URL for MediaWiki
Posted onMediaWiki is the wiki-engine that runs Wikipedia. In this tutorial, we introduce how to configure search engine friendly URLs in MediaWiki. ==Search Engine Friendly URLs== Default MediaWiki URLs look like www.example.com/w/index.php?title=TITLE which is a little ugly. To make it more search engine friendly, we will change it to SEO-friendly URLs like www.example.com/w/TITLE. ==Enabling Search Engine
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A Free Personal WordPress Blog Solution
Posted onIf you want to have a wordpress blog for FREE co.cc + x10hosting is the best choice. I will introduce both in this post. I will briefly introduce how to set up a wordpress blog like my blog. The overall that I paid for this blog is only $0.89. I can say that it is
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Friendly WordPress Navigation Using Page Numbers Instead of Next and Previous Links
Posted onThe navigation will be more user friendly with page numbers instead of next and previous links since users can navigate much quicker to the page they want to see especially when there are a lot of pages. It is also good method for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because it creates a tighter inner link structure.
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How to Redirect a Page with HTTP 301 in PHP
Posted onHTTP 301 Redirect is an SEO friendly way to redirect readers to a page’s new location. There are a lot of benefits of using HTTP 301 Redirect. These benefits can be found in the htaccess method post. htaccess or PHP can be both used for sending 301 redirects. The htaccess method can be found in
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Change WordPress’s Excerpt Length
Posted onThe default excerpt length of WordPress is 55 words. Some one like me may want to change the excerpt length. I like the have a smaller excerpt length for the homepage. WordPress provides a interface for changing the default excerpt length. The method is very simple and easy. Put these codes into the function.php file
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Using noindex Meta Tag in WordPress to Prevent Search Engines Indexing Categories, Tags and Archives
Posted onWordPress may show "duplicate" content which may potentially confuse search engines. Duplicate content won’t hurt much, unless it is spam or keyword stuffing, as said by Matt Cutts, and Google may just ignore the duplicate content. However, instead of letting the search engines decide which pages of the duplicate ones are important, we may only
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Use Excerpt in Index, Category, Tag and Arhieve Pages for WordPress
Posted onBy default, all of the content of the post is shown in index, category, tag, archive and search pages. This is duplicate contents which may cause search engine penalty. The better way is using excerpt in index, category, tag and arhieve pages. By doing this the duplication can be avoided and the blog is optimized.
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Moved back to WordPress from MediaWiki
Posted onWordPress is so missed for many great features and plugins. Hence, we moved the site back to the WordPress system on Jul. 12, 2013. MediaWiki is great but, for this site, WordPress is a better solution. The so missed features of WordPress Related posts via the YARPP Plugin. URLs without strongly mapped to the title
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