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WordPress SEO Plugins For 2012

AlliedBloggers — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:53:53 +0000

If you read my previous post about the best SEO practices, I mentioned that one of the most important elements to search engine optimization is on-page (or on-site) optimization or, for the purpose of this post, the part of WordPress that deals with the “code”. WordPress is a great platform and takes care of about 80% of the mechanics of SEO according to Matt Cutts (Google Spam Chief). While this is true, it does not mean that you can’t improve it further and this is where the SEO plugins come into play. They help your site go that extra mile for added “technical optimizations”.

Note that there are many SEO plugins available out there, and you should always do some research for more information. The ones that I will be recommending here are all from credible sources (developers and on the WP repository), 100% free and tested. I use them either here or my other websites.

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10 Tips for Raising your Alexa Ranking

AlliedBloggers — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:08:15 +0000

If you’ve recently started a blog, perhaps to publicize your business, obtain better rankings, and show up better in search engine results. No matter the reason, whether you have a real estate or a car insurance comparison website, or if you’re just blogging for social commentary, you’ve got to have readers in order to have a successful blog and you can’t get readers without improving your ranking in the results of major search engines.

Alexa ranking allows you to measure the progress of your efforts to publicize your site, the better you are able to boost your Alexa ranking, the more likely you are to show up in the top results of a search engine query.

There are many ways to boost your Alexa ranking. In this article we’ll cover the 10 most effective ways to boost your Alexa ranking.

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How To Really Improve Your Bounce Rates

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:18:08 +0000

First off I want to give credit where credit is due and in this case it goes to a post my mate Mitch wrote called Too Many Tags And Categories? That particular post, one that I recommend you read, refers to a blog Mitch had read where the blogger claims to have reduced his bounce rate to 2%.

The thing about that bloggers post that caught Mitch’s attention was when the blogger mentioned that smaller tags and tag clouds were beneficial because it allowed the reader to focus on what the blog is really about. I’m assuming that having a huge amount of tags would confuse the reader causing him to leave without searching any further.

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Why I Love WP Zon Builder

AlliedBloggers — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:14:26 +0000

WP Zon Builder Provides Customer Reviews

This remarkable plugin not only pulls the product right out of the Amazons site it places it onto your post complete with customer reviews and lets not forget that all links have your affiliate code embedded in it.

Let’s say for example that I wanted to promote ProBlogger’s newly updated book, one that I haven’t bought and am not likely to ever buy it. Not having a copy I couldn’t just write a post telling people how great it is because that would be dishonest. I could however let WP Zon Builder pull actual customer reviews right from Amazon’s site.

Just take a look at this video I put together that shows you how easy it is to use.

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Create A Niche Website – Case Study

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:13:16 +0000

Some 30 days ago, I shared with you how to create a niche website in less than one day. In that post, I showed you the exact steps on how I achieved this, by covering every aspect required, from the planning stage, keyword research, SEO Techniques, WordPress setup, up to the effective launch of the website. Back then, I also promised that I will be making an update of the experiment, as soon as one month has gone by. Today, I will be doing just that, give you an update of the project. Before I go further however, you may want to read that post first, in case you missed it. In any event, here’s a quick recap.

The Project – Create A Niche Website That Offers Free Online Publications

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How To Create A Niche Website

AlliedBloggers — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:19:50 +0000

Creating a niche website to make money online is something that I have a lot of fun doing. One of the main reasons for this is that I love doing experiments and see where that leads me. If all goes well, I learn something, if not, I learn something too. You see, that’s the whole idea of the so called “trial and error”. You learn either way .

Today I will share with you how I created a niche website, in less than one day. I am not counting the time it took me to research and prepare the action plan though. If I account for all the minutes I’ve spent over the days doing this, I would add another 1/2 day in there. Anyway, once I had everything together, I put the plan in motion.

Before I move forward, I want you to know that this is not a hypothetical scenario. The website is live and running (started yesterday and launched it today). If you ask me whether this will make me tons of money, my response to you is simple, I hope so. The only thing that I am sure of, is that I will never know, unless I decided to go for it (hint).

That said, the idea of this post is to run you through the steps of creating a niche site, while sending a message that, having the right motivation and determination, you too can make things happen.

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How To Set Up Google Authorship Markup, Real Easy Way

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:52:11 +0000

I am sure that you have at the very least heard about the authorship markup that Google is pushing for lately. Whether this is a well elaborated plan to “lure” people into using Google+ or not, the fact is, they highly recommend it and regardless of whatever impact this could mean for SEO, I am guessing that it will eventually play its part and provide some advantage for users that are using it, over those who don’t.

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Making Money With Google AdSense, Is It Worth It?

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:19:41 +0000

Earlier this month, I got engaged with a conversation on Twitter from a friend that asked me if I can write some “stuff” regarding my best performers, as far as making money online is concerned. If you noticed, only on very rare occasions that I will show you “numbers” as it is really not my thing. While I do realize that it might provide more confidence when making suggestions to users, on the other hand, certain business models sometimes works for one and not for the other. In lieu of that, my main objective about this matter is to provide you with information and actionable steps you can take to make things happen. I do hope that by sharing my experiences with you, you can pick up a few things to work on.

Anyway, that suggestion did spark a good idea for letting people know what works for me and with that said, I will probably be writing more specific posts about it. Today, I will start with Google AdSense.

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Best WordPress and SEO Plugins 2011

AlliedBloggers — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:33:27 +0000

Earlier this year, I provided you a list of the best SEO plugins for 2011. That, was “take one”. Nearly six months later, I figured, it is worth looking at some other plugins that have been rising in popularity, in addition to what was already mentioned on “take one”. Provided by the awesome WordPress community of developers, these plugins are developed with the objective of helping us manage our online ventures much easier, so please take a moment to rate them and/or visit their websites to show our appreciation for a job well done.

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Google Releases Web Based Speed Test, The Web Faster

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:17:11 +0000

Google Is Committed To Make The Web Faster

Officially released today is Google’s new online page speed performance, a webmasters tool that allows users to verify the performance of any website at any time. We have all seen before that Google has been constantly “pushing” hard over the performance of the web and as you all now, page speed is now an important ranking factor. Google believes that a faster web is a better web and the “Page Speed Tool ” which was before available only as an addon, now runs as a web-based application.

Here’s an excerpt of the official announcement on Google’s Webmaster Central:

At Google, we’re striving to make the whole web fast. As part of that effort, we’re launching a new web-based tool in Google Labs, Page Speed Online, which analyzes the performance of web pages and gives specific suggestions for making them faster. Page Speed Online is available from any browser, at any time. This allows website owners to get immediate access to Page Speed performance suggestions so they can make their pages faster.

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