Dive into the archives.
- Top 8 SEO Plugins for Wordpress
Building on yesterday’s post about tips to make your blog rank better, here’s the plugins you’ll need to impliment that functionality. If I missed anything or there are better alternatives, please let me know.
- Optimal Title make sure your post titles occur at the begining of each permalink page’s title tag.
- Related Entries Deep linking baby.
- Google Sitemap Generator probably won’t make you rank better, but does provide good info.
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- New Planet Names
So there’s gonna be some new planets. Check
Keeping true to history and the Skinny J’s pluto is in fact a planet. Check.
Cool new planet names?Acceptance of the new definition of a planet, however, would mean that three other tiny celestial bodies would have to be welcomed into the solar fold - Ceres, Charon, and UB 313, which has been dubbed Xena, after the television heroine. [Emphasis Mine]
Wow, really? We’re going to name a…
- 10 Tips To Make Your Blog Rank Better
- Do keyword research and know which search terms drive the big traffic
- Make sure your target keyword appears once in the post title and at least once in the body of the post
- Make sure your post title appears first in the title tag on its permalink page
- Make sure your post title appears in a heading tag in the HTML
- Link out to other blogs, a lot. Eventually they’ll link back
- Redirect all URL requests without WWW to the WWW version of the page (or…
- Scraping SERPs vs APIs
Yet another great post today, this one from SEOmoz is about the problems and choices presented to SEOs by search engines because of their API and automated scraping policies.
I admit it. SEOmoz is a search engine scraper - we do it for our free public tools, for our internal research and we’ve even considered doing it for clients (though I’m seriously concerned about charging for data that’s obtained outside TOS). Many hundreds of large firms…
- Clickshare by Rank
SEO Black Hat has a great post and tool up today that extrapolated clickshare by ranking percentages from the leaked AOL search data. Clickshare is the percentage of total search volume that clicks on a particular position in the SERPs. According to his data, 41.1% of all searchers click on the first result.
I went ahead and graphed the distribution curve of these numbers, and a modified cumulative percentage curve, and it looks like our much…
- Coming Soon
My upcoming ebook, SEO for bloggers.
- Profitable Search Traffic Threshold
Excel rocks.
I mean yeah its Microsoft and it could be better, but there is tons of mathematical fun to be had with Excel’s formulas and graphs.
Over the past week or so I’ve been working on a table, full of lots of simple calculations designed to help me understand the economic patterns in search marketing. Here’s what I came up with.
First put yourself in the shoes of a merchant, you sell hats and on average you make a 10-dollar profit…
- Kottke on What Makes an Idea Viral
The factors that play into the “virality” of an idea, or more specifically a link in this case, is a topic I’ve started to delve into with my What Makes an Idea Viral series. Yesterday, Jason Kottke did a little bit of his own riffing on the Seth Godin post that started my series:Seth hits the nail right on the head with this. When I’m deciding what links to post here, I’m essentially curating ideas, collecting them to “send” to you (and to…
- PHP Ajax Tail Implimentaion
A while back I linked to a demo of a script I wrote implementing the unix command tail (Like for watching the data being appended to a file), so I could tail a log file. I finally got around to posting the source code.
You’ll need saja the secure ajax for PHP framework and my saja.functions.php file as well as the actual output page, tail.php.
As with most of my code its icky and hackish, but it works. For me at least.
- Wikipedia’s XML Dump, MySQL and PHP
For a corpa to use for an as-yet-unnamed project I’m working on, I’ve been struggling with the unwieldy wikipedia XML dump.
1.4gb of pure XML wikicontent. A huge pain to import however, since SQL dumps are no longer directly released. I had to install mediawiki’s (the software that wikipedia runs on) database structure (in the source code its in maintentance/tables.sql), then run a java program called mwdumper to create an enourmous SQL…
