All posts tagged SEO

SEO friendly url’s

By jhnidk | April 1, 2010 | PHP, SEO | 2 Comments

The URL structure of your site is very important for both users and search engines. A short URL, that gives some indication of what can be found on the page is more trustful, than a very long URL with a lot of parameters that can be difficult to understand.

From a SEO perspective, if important keywords are included in the url, this can increase the overall seo credibility of the page.

In this post you’ll learn to build 2 types of nice URL’s for dynamic sites: .htaccess url rewriting and URL parsing techniques.

Improve the page titles in WordPress

By jhnidk | March 26, 2010 | WordPress | 5 Comments

Having good and logical page titles for your blog has several benefits. The page title helps the users to see if they are on the page they intended to go to, and what kind of content they can expect to find on the page.

When Your blog is being indexed by search engines, the page title is displayed in the search result. If the page title isn’t accurate or describes what the page is about, users are less willing to click on if, which means less traffic from Google. Even worse, some search engines might ban your blog, if there are too many duplicates in the page titles.

In this post you’ll learn to optimize the titles on your WordPress based blog, so they give users and search engines a clear understanding of the topic of the page.

Show popular posts in WordPress

By jhnidk | March 13, 2010 | WordPress | No comments

In the standard setup WordPress is capable of displaying a list with the last 5-10 published posts. However it might also be interesting to show the most popular posts to your users, since these posts might increase the stickiness of your site, and also increases the SEO value of these pages. So the aim of this post is to give you a quick guide to how you can implement a list with the most popular posts to your WordPress blog.

WordPress is now installed – what’s next?

By jhnidk | March 10, 2010 | WordPress | 3 Comments

WordPress is a fantastic tool for blogging and publishing content on the web. Especially the many plugins and themes provides a tremendous amount of functionality out of the box. However as a newbie to WordPress, all these possibilities can also be a bit overwhelming.

In this post, we’ll suggest a few things that hopefully can help giving your new site a fantastic start.

SEO friendly tracking of outgoing links

By jhnidk | March 9, 2010 | SEO, Web analytics | 1 Comment

As a webmaster knowing exactly which external sites your website is driving the most traffic to, can be very useful. With this knowledge you can contact the most popular sites any maybe enter some kind of partnership, or just link even more to these sites, since your audience seems to like these sites.