How Do Themes & Plugins Help With SEO?

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27 Sep 2010

I recently wrote about the need for the website owner to take responsibility for SEO and not rely 100% on a theme or a plugin. Themes and plugins do of course have some benefits if you understand what it is they do, and what they cannot do. The benefit of themes and plugins ‘SEO-friendly’ themes [...]

Don’t Leave Your SEO To A Theme or a Plugin

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13 Sep 2010

In the WordPress community, especially amongst new users, a lot of emphasis seems to be placed on themes and plugins as crucial factors in SEO. Theme companies compete for bragging rights on whose is the most ‘SEO-friendly’ while website owners are frustrated that they are not getting the search engine traffic they expected despite having [...]

In Life and SEO – There Are No Guarantees!

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28 Apr 2010

Business owners are often asking how they can be ranked #1 on Google, or if they should trust the company that told them they would guarantee a first place ranking. A common turn of phrase is that a company told them they would “put them #1″ on Google. If only it were that easy! I [...]

Basic SEO for Blogger – Adding Alt Text To Images

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26 Jan 2010

I personally use and am a huge fan of WordPress – I made the switch from Blogger many years ago. However I do have a couple of clients that use blogger to publish their blogs – they find it simpler to use. But simplicity comes at a price. Although it is owned by Google, Blogger [...]

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Online Marketing Terms – SEO Edition

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6 Nov 2009

A Guide To Online Marketing Terms – Part 2 This is the second part of my developing series on online marketing terms explained. This time we focus on some basic SEO-related terms you might come across. SEO Search Engine Optimization is the process of fine tuning your website so that when your target internet surfer [...]

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