MySQL Database Optimization on WordPress
Do you suspect your MySQL database is slowing down your WordPress website but just don’t know what to do? What the heck is “database optimization” anyhow? This post is for all who have asked these questions.
Read More7 Must Know SEO Tips
SEO marketing can be a bumpy road that is ever changing directions.
I will be writing in January and February, covering SEO key topics that you need to understand to increase your Google search engine placement. Join the mailing list to get these articles in your inbox, follow @moodynet on twitter, or become a fan on facebook to get in the loop!
Among other topics, we will look at what Google says about:
- Domain name choices and SEO
- Article marketing and SEO
- Identifying the causes of your page ranking
- The why’s, when’s, and how’s of redirects
- Keywords and Adwords demistified
- Will “rich snippets” make you rich?
- nice marketing -> social marketing -> successful marketing!
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Responsive Design & WordPress Themes
Responsive web design is a term that describes an approach toward designing for screen sizes as apposed to designing for devices.
“Back in the day”, when there were only a few smart phones and very few other web page viewing devices, it made sense to design a completely different theme for the iPhone, blackberry, or the handfull of other mobile devices; but, this is a new day!
Different screen sized web page viewers are pouring into the market, design for them or be left behind. The http://WordpressWebmaster.net recommends leaving the mobile plugins like WPtouch behind and moving on to “Responsive Web Design”…like yesterday! If you have not done this yet, don’t feel bad; we are just beginning to move our blog into a responsive design theme too. Watch the video and review the resource lists below:
Read MoreWhere are the free themes?
WordPress Webmaster loathes traversing through the themes at http://wordpress.org because quality is over run quantities of poor themes. So, we are going to give you quick links to free themes at premium theme providers. Enjoy, and add your own favorite set of free themes too by commenting to this post!
Read MoreHow to find local backlink opportunities
Here is a quick tip to help you find possible backlink opportunities. Use Google as follows:
Do searches with “product name + city,state” or “service interest + city,state” and find all the local listings in the presented google tabs. Pay particular attention to:
Read MoreGoogle Sitelink Changes
This week Google added the ability for you to adjust your sitelinks! So, what are site links? They are the link set that comes up in searches for your domain along with y0ur site link. Here is an example of WordPress.com site links in a Google search:
Read MoreRedirects and Google SEO
Are you redesigning your site? If so, pay attention to this simple discussion from Google about redirects and here are some tools to help you not lose any of your good Google search engine placements.
So, what happens if you are redesigning your site and you have a page in your old site that rocked Google search and came up #1 in the list when searching something like “business coaching”? Consider the old page is at http://mysite.com/bizcoaching.html and the new site the page changes to http://mysite.com/services/biz-coaching/.
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