As mentioned in a previous post, recently I have started playing with Video SEO, and found it to be a part of SEO I quite like. It’s a very technical trade so far, so apologies for all the code in the article lying in front of you, but there just is no way around it: [...]
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Video SEO and WordPress
I’ve been testing a lot with video SEO lately, and I’ll be doing a whole lot more of that testing, as video SEO seems to be a nice area to play in. Now I noticed my buddy Mark Robertson over at ReelSEO did a short, but nice interview with Matt Cutts on video sitemaps: Now [...]
W3C Validation: why you should care, and why not
Every once in a while I get an email about W3C validation. The people emailing me either point me at the fact that my own site doesn’t validate correctly (thank Facebook for most of that), or they ask me whether I think W3C Validation is important. Most of them ask even more specifically: whether I [...]
Categories: SEO
Part II of my WordPress CMS series
I’ve just published Part II of my WordPress CMS series: Design & development of your WordPress CMS. Enjoy!
Categories: WordPress
W3 Total Cache and why you should be using it
So I think I’ve not said it enough yet: W3 Total Cache is the best caching plugin for WordPress out there at the moment. To illustrate, I’ve made a short video outlining how I usually set it up (if the video is not working for you, check it out on Youtube or Vimeo): Hope you [...]
Categories: WordPress
Change domain, and warn your visitors
When you change domains, for instance using my moving WordPress to a new domain guide, you’ll usually redirect your visitors with something looking like this: Redirect 301 / http://new.example.com/ The only issue with this is that people might not notice that you’ve moved to a new domain, and thus might not update their links to [...]
Categories: Serverside
Happy Birthday BuySellAds!
I’ve posted about them before, and will probably be telling everybody I can about them for a while to come: BuySellAds. It’s their second birthday today, and they made a pretty darn cool video to celebrate: A very happy “birthday” to Todd and the crew at BuySellAds, thanks for helping me and those other great [...]
Categories: Online Marketing
Using WordPress as a CMS article series
I picked the winner for the ShopHTML competition today, a winner who asked for a post I can not possibly do in one single post. So I’ve started an article series on the topic: using WordPress as a CMS, and am ready to release the first article to you already: going from your website’s goal [...]
Categories: WordPress
Two WordPress SEO Plugins you should NOT be using
I was reading my backlog of feeds just now, and came across a couple of updated WordPress SEO plugins aimed at improving your site’s SEO. Some people are just plain ^%$#*& stupid, I’m sorry to say. Let me show you what got me so wound up: #1 Canonical Link Plugin This Canonical Link plugin consists [...]
Categories: WordPress
hreview and hproduct in Magento
Today I gave a presentation at Meet Magento in the Netherlands, talking about SEO for Magento. Up until this point, all articles about that subject here on Yoast have been written by my colleague Joachim Houtman. Last week though, I started playing with Magento myself, in preparation for this presentation today, and I’ve added some [...]
Categories: Magento