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Tweaking Wordpress Blog For Search Engines

Kishore — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress blog is not a big deal as Wordpress is search engine optimized. I had done some posts in the past, just thought of sorting it out and posting the links for you.

Search Engine Optimized Themes

SEO Wordpress Plugins

Other Resources

link rel = canonical – New tag to tell search engines of clean URL

Kishore — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:34:36 +0000

The problem related to duplicate URL’s with regard to search engines has been sorted out. Mattcutts has posted on his blog about this new feature which is valid for most of the top search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will be validating this tag. You have to use this tag inside the tag of your website or blog. For example if you check the source of the page, you will find the canonical tag like this

//www.kisaso.com/rel-canonical-duplicate-url/”>

If you are using Wordpress, you can install this plugin to get the tag added to all your pages

Best Traffic Source Are Search Engines

Kishore — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:12:35 +0000

If you have a blog or a website, the biggest concern should be about the traffic to your blog or website after having impressive posts. Getting traffic is not that easy, but with good content, it becomes achievable. You need to do some work to get your blog traffic growing and with time it will happen. I have my blog with most of the traffic coming from Google, to be frank, I have never tried much to get more traffic or buying backlinks or any blackhat SEO methods. I have been following some SEO Tips which has resulted good for me. Your blog earning will always depend on the traffic of your blog, just not traffic but the quality of the traffic.

There are different ways a visitor may come to your blog or website like

Search engines : Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live are the best source of traffic for free. You need to rank well for potential keywords to get consistent traffic from search engines.
Social media networking sites : Social Media Sites like Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, FaceBook are sources which can shoot up your traffic.
Email link : A visitor can send your blog post URL to his friend to visit or read your post if its impressive.
Direct traffic : Some loyal visitors who already know your blog URL may come to your blog by keying in your blog URL.
News letters : Your news letter subscribers will come to your blog reading your newsletters
Other blogs or website linked to your blog or we can call backlinks
Banners or Advertisements : You can get traffic from different advertisements or banners.
RSS Feeds : Feeds are very popular these days. Many read news or blog posts using different feed aggregators which are very easy to manage and read

As far as a webmaster or a blogger is concerned, the best traffic source is which gives some benefit to the blog or website. The quality of traffic can be determined by the following factors

Time spent on the website
Bounce rate
Repeated visiting
Bookmarking
Subscribing to newsletters
Subscribing to RSS feeds
Post a backlink to the webpage or the blog
Submitting the post to Social Media Sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, etc
Sales or conversion if you have some products to be sold
Ad revenue

Now coming to the topic of this post, the best source of traffic should be a source which gives you conversions, subscribers, loyal readers, backlinks, sales, Ad revenue etc.

In my opinion the best source of traffic should be Search engines for the following reasons

Consistent Traffic – If you have posts which lists on top of Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) then you will surely get tons of traffic if the key phrase or the keywords are popular or if its up in trends.

Less Bounce Rate – The bounce rate for the traffic coming from search engines are very low, reason being the visitor comes to your blog or web page searching for something through a search engine and gets what he was looking for.

Length or Depth of a visit – Usually traffic coming from search engines do spend lot of time on your blog visiting related posts or posts from the same category.

New Visitors – Usually the traffic from search engines will be new visitors and if you have a good blog or impressive posts, you get new visitors converted to loyal visitors or subscribers

Back Links- New visitors or search engine visitors could generate more back links or social media bookmarking. If you blog has your social networking links like Twitter, Digg, facebook or stumbleupon, you have high chances to get more followers or friends which can improve your presence on the World Wide Web.

To conclude, I would like to say looking into my experience, search engine traffic and the best source of traffic and for me 85% of my traffic from search engines. I have found the bounce rate is very low compared to the traffic from social media traffic. Social media sites like Digg or Stumbleupon can give your spikes of traffic but the Ad revenue or conversions are comparatively low. To get more traffic from search engines like Google you need to have great content and a Search engine optimized blog.

Third Live Online Webmaster Chat

Kishore — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:15:24 +0000

If you have any questions to ask the Google Team, which includes Matt Cutts, John Mueller, Kaspar Szymansk and many more. The chat will be roughly for one hour.

You can find more information here

Yahoo also helps you safe browsing

Kishore — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:24:46 +0000

I was searching for my name with Yahoo. I used Yahoo after a long time. Google usually alerts you of potential sercurity problems and now Yahoo also does that

And when I scrolled down, I could avoid clicking on the link

This is really a helpful feature

Experience a new search by Cuil

Kishore — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:13:55 +0000

I was just playing with Cuil. I don’t think this a just launched search engine, but its my first visit to this site.

I just searched for my name, but could not get any pages, but on Google, I get a good number of pages and its 100% relevant results. The search for my name shows this page

But this search engine has something with different. You get some relevant or related search results.

But my next search showed me this error page

I tried few more times, but the same message, the server seams to be overloaded. That’s the biggest different with Google. They have the best hardware in the world and Google can handle millions of searches simultaneously.

Google Adsense New Improved Custom Search for better earnings

Kishore — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:11:47 +0000

Google Adsense has an option for earning from the search results other than banners and text links. I am not sure how many of us use it and what is the potential of earning from the Google Adsense search. To be frank, I was using this only on one of my blog and I did not get much revenue from this. Today I received an email from Google Adsense support team encouraging the use of the Search feature.

There are many new features that they have added and I feel that everybody should try this.

Searching without leaving your website
Improved indexing of your pages
You can add up all your network sites to be searched for the results
You can refine the searches with keywords
You can select the page where the search results to be shown
You can select the ad location where the Google Adsense results to be shown

You should NOT

Add predefined words in the search box
you should not create links to lead to search results
You should not use any automated search quires to show results

Watch this Video

You can make use of this facility and increase your revenue from Google Adsense Account. Please feel free to post your comments and experience

Google Pagerank Update is on

Kishore — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:20 +0000

I saw some threads on Google pagerank update, but could not find any change on any of my websites. I found a thread on DP on this. Its sure that the pagerank update is on. I used the pagerank checking tool for checking my websites and my money making blog just 2 months old has got PR 2 from PR 0, that’s good and I have seen some changes in the search engine ranking for this blog.

Other important thing I have noticed this Johnchow who had lost his PR in the last update has gone from PR 3 to PR 4, I don’t think he has stopped paid links or paid reviews.

How to use Feedburner to burn your feeds?

Kishore — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:05:55 +0000

If you have a blog, you should be knowing about feeds and RSS. In Wordpress, the Default URL for your blog will be http://yoursite.com/feed/. I Wordpress, you can get feeds for your comments, categories, tags separately.

Now let me talk about Feedburner. Feedburner is a free service to burn your feeds. All you need is sign-up for a free account, you can now use your Google Account to sign-in, (Google has acquired Feedburner). Once you sign-in, just enter your feed URL to the box as seen below

You can either enter you blog URL or if you know the Feed URL , you can enter the feed URL.

Thats it your Feed is ready, you can now use the Feedburner URL like http://feeds.feedburner.com/Asokans

You can burn multiple blog feeds and the service is 100% free. There are lots of options available like monetizing your feeds using Google Adsense, Email Subscriptions, Statistics of your blog feed and some widgets.

Why do we need to use Feedburner for this?

That’s something you will understand when you go through the Publicize tab of the Feed. I will be coming up with more features of Feedburner soon. Stay tuned in or Subscribe to my Blog by email for free

Is a Pagerank Update On? Feb 2008

Kishore — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:18:27 +0000

I have noticed some changes in the Google pagerank on some of my web pages nothing much on the main website. Has anybody noticed this? The last pagerank update was just about a month before. Has Google started updating the toolbar on a monthly basis? May be this is some minor updates. I have not read much about this other than the seochat forum

Do you happen to notice anything like this?

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