Give your Commenters a Backlink
Commenters do us a favor by participating in our blogs, the least we could do is give them a followable/indexable backlink. However, all versions of WordPress adds the rel=”nofollow” attribute to links inside the comments box. The major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN etc…) all obey this rel attribute (nofollow) which when used on a [...]
AdSense Theme for WordPress at pilkster.com
An SEO optimized AdSense theme for Wordpress has been posted at pilkster.com. Adsense is integrated into the header, sidebar and footer. The theme also includes Adsense for search in place of the standard Wordpress search function.
Tags: Adsense, Wordpress
Customizing the WordPress Scrollbar
I see very few WordPress blogs where the scrollbar matches the theme. The basic light blue default scrollbar clashes badly in many cases. Theme developers leave out the code. Here’s how to add it to your theme.
Just insert this code anywhere in your theme’s stylesheet. These colors are for the scroll bar used on this [...]
Duplicate Content Update from Google and a New WordPress Plugin
Over on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog Google has explained in detail how they deal with duplicate content. Should you care? Yes, especially if you have a WordPress blog.
As Google points out, “Most of the time when we see this (duplicate content), it’s unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate [...]
Are Technorati Tags Worth the Trouble?
As of November 2006, Technorati claims to be tracking 60 million blogs. OK, so what? Anyone who has had problems getting indexed by Technorati will ask themselves, ‘Are these tags worth the trouble’?
Technorati online help is mediocre at best and support is nearly non-existent. Assuming you have claimed your blog, there are two more [...]
Google Sitemap Protocol now the de facto Standard
If you are not already using Arne Brachhold’s Sitemap Plugin for WordPress, you had better get it installed as soon as possible. Google announced this week that Yahoo! and Microsoft are joining them in officially supporting the Sitemap 0.84 XML protocol.
Sitemaps help improve website visibility in search results by insuring that indexing bots don’t [...]
A Simple Ad Rotator for WordPress
Ads in WordPress headers, footers, and sidebars are repeated over and over as visitors move around a blog. It is preferable to have the ad(s) change every time the template is loaded. Changing ad layouts reduce ad blindness while changing ad providers gives visitors more choices. However, rotating ad scripts in WordPress is not so [...]
