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Write Good SEO Content

Written by Ken on April 30, 2008

Writing content, is not that difficult itself, it’s the SEO techniques and how to adapt them to your content that is the hard part. It can be very tricky to write good SEO content that is both understood by the search engines and humans at the same time. However, the ground role for creating good SEO content is to write your content for human eyes first and then do your SEO. If you try to write good content, you will soon see that both the search engines and your visitors appreciate it.

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Upgrade To WordPress 2.5.1

Written by Ken on April 25, 2008

WP’s Custom Fields For Meta Tags

Written by Ken on April 24, 2008

I like WordPress more and more for everyday I use it. Today, I found out a quick and easy way to assign the Meta Tags, Keywords and Description to each post page, without using any plugin. WordPress has a nice built in feature, the ability to assign custom fields to your posts. By just taking advantage oft hat powerfully feature of WordPress, you can easily add your Meta Tags while writing your post, without the need of any plugin. Let me show you how to do it, it’s ridiculous easy!

In order to be able to add our own keywords and description, to each post, we are going to use the custom fields feature. This feature lets us add some extra information to our posts, for example, keywords and description, that we are going to use. The extra information that you enter in your own fields are also called Meta-data. You only need to create a field once, you can then use it from all of your posts.

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Static Site To WordPress with Redirection

Written by Ken on April 21, 2008

Yesterday, I decided to convert a static site, into a dynamic site, powered by WordPress, since it had become difficult to maintain, due to it’s size. Also, I was not happy with the link and directory structure of the site. To let the search engines know, what I was doing, I was planning to use 301 redirects. The plan was to create the .htaccess file, manually, with all the proper 301 directions.

For you that doesn’t know, a 301 redirect, is an efficient way of letting the search engines know that a page or a whole site, has moved permanently to a new location. By using a 301 redirect, all the old page’s properties, are transferred to the new page.

However, after I had installed WordPress, over the old site, and configured it, I created the 301 redirections. For some reason, I couldn’t get the .htaccess, to work the way I wanted it to. Then I thought, there must be an easier way, to accomplish this. So, I turned to Google and started to search for a solution, to my 301 redirect problem.

After a couple of searches, I found this brilliant plugin for WordPress, called Redirection. It solved all my problems, in a snap!

Redirection, is very easy to use, yet very powerful. It works like this, you upload it to your plugin directory, activate it, then you go to the Redirection’s settings, that you’ll find under the manage menu.
Then you type in the old path of the file and the new location, press the button, and your done.

Now, Redirect can do more then just manage your 301 redirections. It also, gives you statistics on how often an old page was redirected, it keeps track of 404 errors, creates pass-through redirections, lets you add or remove www to your pages and much more. Redirect does not require .htaccess, all work is done entirely inside your WordPress installation.

So if you are going to convert your static site to WordPress, change your site’s domain name or change the structure of your site, I can recommend you to take advantage of this powerful WordPress plugin. It saved me a lot of time!

You can read more about Redirection and download it from it’s homepage, located here, http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

Plan For Revenue

Written by Ken on April 19, 2008

Apparently, if you doesn’t have a plan for your website, it will simply not work out as you thought it would. You cannot just throw up some web pages on random, and think that they will generate any kind of revenue. That is a dead end, believe me, I have done it…
When you are in the design state of building, think revenue. Be creative, that way you will find several ways for you site to generate revenue. Sketch your layout on a piece of paper, then you can easily erase or add blocks as you go along. When you sketch your layout, try to think as a visitor, to your future site. Create different kinds of sections on your site, one for the ads, the navigation, news, articles etc.

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Build For Bookmarks

Written by Ken on April 10, 2008

I thought that I would share a little bit of how I design my sites, to get bookmarks. A solid base of bookmarks are crucial for both your revenue and traffic. Here is why and how, you could design your site(s) to get bookmarks.

If you take a look on the big players on the net, you will find that a big majority of their base traffic is built up by people that has added their site to their bookmarks. A surfer that has added a bookmark to your site, is a person that trust you, your site and the content you provide. A surfer that has bookmarked your site, is much more likely to buy or sign up for something that you offer, on your site, since he or she trusts you.

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