This blog is based on WordPress, and customizing and SEO-ing it is a constant process, so I blog about that quite often. After all, good SEO on this blog makes for lots of visitors, which is exactly what I want of course.
WordPress Stats Infographic
My Google Analytics plugin recently hit 3 million downloads and my WordPress SEO plugin hit its first million downloads. I thought those stats were cool and I decided to have an infographic made with more WordPress stats and dive in a little bit more and gather some stats that I thought would be interesting. If you [...]
SEO Campixx 2012
I spoke at SEO Campixx 2012 in Berlin last weekend. It was an awesome conference and I met up with loads of good friends. During that time I was interviewed and my presentation was recorded, so I’ll let you view both below: My presentation on how to use my WordPress SEO plugin (warning, I was a bit groggy [...]
WordPress SEO Webinar with SEO Braintrust
Last week I did a webinar with SEO Braintrust, which was incredibly fun. So much fun in fact that I have asked Andrea Warner, who hosted that webinar, to help me with setting up a paid webinar series around WordPress SEO, going into the subject matter even more deeply. More news on that will be [...]
Why some WordPress Themes hurt your SEO.
Once again, I want to tell you to not blindly trust theme authors when they say their theme is SEO friendly. “SEO friendly” is just a label they put on their theme and since most of their customers don’t know what to look for to see if it’s actually true, yet know that it’s important, [...]
WordPress Host Survey
I’m working on a new project and for this project I’d love to know which WordPress hosting party you use, which package you’re on and what you think about them. Using this data I’ll compile a list of hosts that support WordPress properly and approach them for a couple of tests. I’m specifically also looking [...]
Changing the look of your Search Result Pages
I love Google, I seriously do. What I don’t like too much is them adding more and more fluff to my search result pages (or SERPs) that I really don’t want or need. Most of us know about their new Terms of Service now, right? No reason to show me that box all the bloody [...]
WordPress robots.txt Example
Robots.txt is a way to tell a search engine which pages it’s allowed to spider, to “see”, and which pages it cannot “see”. Because of that, robots.txt differs from meta name=”robots” tags, which tell search engines on those individual pages, whether they can include them in their index or not. The difference is subtle, but [...]
Use Gravity Forms to submit custom post types
In my previous post I explained how I used the Types plugin to create a new custom post type. That custom post type will be used to display a table of supported themes for my WordPress SEO plugin, and is therefor called wpseo-theme. Now the trick here is that I want users to be able [...]
Types WordPress plugin – Easy Custom Post Types
I’ve long wanted to create a database of themes that support my SEO plugin and never came up with a manageable way of doing that. When my buddy Amir from WPML emailed me about their two new plugins, Types and Views, it took me a while to grasp what they did. Turns out I’m daft [...]
On WordPress Dashboard Widgets
I was one of the first plugin developers to add a dashboard widget to your dashboard when you installed one of my plugins. I’m hoping people will follow me in doing the reverse as well. While it generates traffic, it doesn’t generate sales. Let me show you. When I added mine, in the beginning, it [...]
