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SEO For Word Press Are you interested in improving your page ranking in Word Press? If so here’s a great two part article that offers some great tips.

Googlesystem.blogspot.com explains how Google ranks blogs in their search result according to a new patent.

Positive signals

• Links from blogrolls (especially from high-quality blogrolls or blogrolls of “trusted bloggers”)
• Links from other sources (mail, chats)
• Using tags to categorize a post
• PageRank
• The number of feed subscriptions (from feed readers)
• Clicks in search results

Negative signals (spam signals)

• Posts added at a predictable time
• Different content between the site and the feed
• The amount of duplicate content
• Using words/n-grams that appear frequently in spam blogs
• Posts that have identical size
• Linking to a single web page
• A large number of ads
• The location of ads (”the presence of ads in the recent posts part of a blog”)

Continue to read over at Googlesystem.blogspot.com…

If you use Wordpress as your blogging platform you might want to read this ten point tutorial on how to optimize your Wordpress blog. Here is tip number five:

5. Related Posts
When a person visits your blog you want then to stay for as long as you can. One of the best ways to keep visitors interested is to show them other content on your blog that may be related to the post they are currently reading. The easiest way to do this is with the ‘Related Posts‘ plugin. Upload using your FTP client into the wp-content > plugins folder, then login to your Wordpress admin panel and activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ page.

To read all the other nine ways you can optimize Wordpress just go to boydcreative.net.

If you use Blogger.com to blog with you might want to read this:

Is your blog hosted on on Blogger.com - if yes, there are chances that it may not be indexed by Google, Yahoo or other search engines. The reason maybe NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW Meta tag that may have slipped quietly in your blog pages probably due to a bug.

Read more over at labnol.blogspot.com

This is not anything I recommend you to do on your site or blog. But if you don’t want your site or information to be searched for on Google, Yahoo! etc this is how you do.

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Over the years, quite a few clients have told me that search engines hate them. When search engines hate you, your web site is nowhere to be seen in the first 30 search engine result pages and has very low search engine referral traffic. This means that you are losing out on many newsletter subscribers and customers.

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Search engine optimisation is a massive area for Internet marketing , usually if your website can not be found on the search engines your website is likely to receive little or no visitors at all. Search engine optimisation is an extremely competitive market, where nearly any webmaster will do anything to try and get that top ranking . This article discusses the big don’ts of search engine optimisation practices :

1. Don’t submit to Free For All (FFA) websites
2. Keep the keyword density low
3. Don’t optimise pages for a wide number of keywords
4. Duplicate website content
5. Hidden text
6. Infamous “click here” links
7. Automated link exchange networks

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Dmoz is always viewed as the key to get higher traffic and increased PageRank for your website. Webmasters and online business owners aim for a Dmoz listing with the faith that it can help their sites rank well on the search engines especially in Google - since Google uses the information contained in the Dmoz directory. This is the driving force that leads them to the idea of getting their sites listed in Dmoz. But is it true that getting listed in Dmoz is a test of patience and perseverance?

Getting listed in Dmoz may take a long time - or forever as others have put it. Therefore, it is indeed a test of your patience and perseverance as a webmaster. The listing may take longer than you actually expect it to be. This leads to the common question that haunts webmasters and online business owners that have submitted their sites to Dmoz.org is this: When will my site be listed in Dmoz?

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