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WordPress SEO Case Study

Doubling search traffic

A case study of our Word SEO work:The site is a niche blog on resources in Tamil language. The site has been online since 2007.In June 2011, I started implementing some WordPress  SEO measures and observed the following results immediately:1. Page views, visits and search traffic doubled.2. Adsense revenue increased 10 times as I added new ad slots motivated by the increased page views.3. The number of impressions in search results and clicks from search engines increased by 50%.4. Impressions for some of the keywords increased up to 5,000+ %.Please note that during this period* No new posts were added. In fact, I removed some of the less useful posts. * No … [Read more...]

How to use WordPress SEO by Yoast and Scribe SEO?

Scribe SEO WordPress plugin

WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast and Scribe SEO premium plugin are two essential plugins we use for optimizing page content. Here is a brief guide on search engine optimizing your posts using these.In your post / page edit view, you have two sections for SEO called:1. WordPress SEO by Yoast2. Scribe Keyword research, Scribe Content Optimizer, Scribe Link building.WordPress SEO is a popular free plugin and quite straight forward.For each post, you have to add a SEO Title and Meta description.SEO Title can be different from the actual post title you display in site. This SEO title will be displayed in search engine results. This title should be keyword rich and brief. … [Read more...]

Useful WordPress Tips Websites

Are you looking for useful WordPress tips websites? Here is a list of selected websites which offer regular updates on WordPress tips and tricks. Beginner WordPress tips: 1. WP Beginner2. WP TV Advanced WordPress tips: 1. WP Engineer3. WP Recipes  … [Read more...]

How to find if a site is powered by WordPress?

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Many clients approach me thinking a site is done in WordPress while it is not. So, how to find if a site is powered by WordPress?1. Right click on any page in the site and select "View page source". You can also select "Page Source" in the view menu in the browser.In the source page, search for terms like wp-content or wp-admin or wp-includes . Any site not having these words in the source is not powered by WordPress. Some might have changed the wp prefix for security reasons. But is a very rare case.2. Check domainname.com/readme.html to see if it is powered by WordPress. You can also use this method to see the WordPress version installed. ( Tip by WPWebHost )3. Use … [Read more...]

WordPress automatic Thumbnail issue with Hostgator

If you are hosted with Hostgator, you may have a problem with the automatic thumbnail generation feature that many WordPress themes provide.To solve this:1. Login to your Hostgator control panel and contact Live Chat Support. 2. Ask the support technician to white list your thumbnail generation file for mod_security . You will need to give your file name and path.  The file name mostly will be timthumb.php . You can find this file inside the WordPress theme folder. An example file path wp-content/themes/theme_name/timthumb.phpThis is a known issue with Hostgator's WordPress hosting and all the technicians can recognise your request. This problem will be solved by them in … [Read more...]

WordPress Security Tips

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WordPress security tips:* Keep your WordPress installation and plugins up-to-date always and immediately. Many attackers try to take advantage of loopholes in outdated software. So, do not hesitate to upgrade WordPress fearing it would break custom made themes and plugins. Security should be the top priority. Use only trusted sources for WordPress themes and plugins. Please be aware that most of the pretty looking free WordPress themes may be having malware.* Use a strong, unique and different password each for WordPress admin user name, WordPress MySQL database, FTP user account and the web hosting control panel user name.These two steps are the most important WordPress security … [Read more...]