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What plugins do you add to WordPress installs for better SEO? Use the comments to let me know what's missing from the list. (this list is old as dirt. Ignore it, please) Platinum SEO Pack - It does auto 301 redirects, canonical URLs and plenty more. Google xml sitemaps - Creates your sitemap.xml and updates … Continue reading Top 5 SEO Plugins for WordPress
Google places a real live email link to pat@example.com on the Google account login screen. Though I'm sure it's intended to improve usability it has the opposite effect. They placed the pat@example.com link smack dab in between the email (login/username) field and the password field. Keyboard savvy users normally use the tab key to move … Continue reading pat@example.com Google Usability Tweak
Hello fall. I used to rank #1 in Google for uncool. Not so much anymore. My uncool site is wallowing WAY down the ranks. If you have a blog or a page, please toss uncoolcentral a link with "uncool" as the anchor text. I'll hook you up with a link too. Or maybe … Continue reading The Fall of Uncool
Wordtracker keywords (Photo credit: Matthew Burpee) Update: Eight years later, yet another SEO data vendor failed me, so I did a more recent piece on that reporting vendor search. Here's the original 2010 piece on the frustrating state of keyword research way back when. I recently reluctantly renewed my subscription to Wordtracker, a keyword research … Continue reading Wordtracker KEI Fail, Wordtracker Alternatives & SEO News
File this one under Microsoft usability nightmares. I was visiting one of my W3 standards compliant pages using Internet Explorer 8 to check for cross-browser layout/rendering consistency when I noticed that IE8 served a pop-up. I was not pleased to learn that I could press the compatibility view button to fix problems in pages made … Continue reading Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View SNAFU
This from an old friend of mine on the private "guys list" mailing list. So, I was trying to get a couple of E-books from the pirate bay. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5362753 The pdf I downloaded did not work, so I put up a comment and I noticed they were not un-escaping single quotes. So I tried a … Continue reading The Pirate Bay Open to SQL Injection Attacks?
WebPosition was pretty great until Infospace bought them in 2009. Then came the outages. What was once a wonderfully supported suite of SEO SERP tools turned into a nightmare. The newly released Webposition is a web-only interface (vs. software you install on your computer.) Whereas you used to pay a few hundred bucks to own … Continue reading Need Help Finding a WebPosition Replacement
One of my clients recently opened a second Google Adwords account to advertise one of his many businesses. "Why does it cost so much more to go after the same PPC keywords on my new website with this new Adwords account?! Is it because it's new?" I'd previously mentioned to him that good SEO reduces … Continue reading SEO Reduces PPC Cost
A post from back in the day when it was much easier to modify Firefox add-ons wherein I updated some great Firefox addon extensions again so they'll work with the then-latest greatest. My previous post about Google PageRank Status and SEOpen has the links to the files. Enjoy. In retrospect, this is a horrible blog … Continue reading SEOpen Google PageRank Status & Duplicate Tab Addons for FireFox 3.6.x
A tale of trying to switch back to Verizon for local phone service I use First Communications for local and long distance phone service i.e. my "land line". First Communications is a CLEC, which means they resell an ILEC's (or RBOC's) telephone lines. Verizon is the ILEC/RBOC in my area. Because Verizon sucks, using a … Continue reading Verizon SNAFU
Dan Dreifort 