MySQL Database Optimization on WordPress

Posted by on Jan 30, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

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.

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7 Must Know SEO Tips

Posted by on Jan 20, 2012 in SEO | 0 comments

7 Must Know SEO Tips
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series 7 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!
I’m looking forward to digging into these topics and more with the SEO community. For those of you who are just starting your internet marketing journey, checkout SEOmoz beginners guide to SEO.

 

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Responsive Design & WordPress Themes

Posted by on Oct 3, 2011 in Blog, themes | 0 comments

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:

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Where are the free themes?

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Where 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!

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How to find local backlink opportunities

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011 in Blog, SEO | 1 comment

How 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:

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Google Sitelink Changes

Posted by on Aug 21, 2011 in SEO | 0 comments

Google 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:

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Redirects and Google SEO

Posted by on Aug 11, 2011 in SEO | 0 comments

Redirects 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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