11 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have
WordPress in itself is a decent system but it can be made into a rock solid blogging beast. Adding top WordPress plugins can make WordPress into the Swiss Army Knife of blogging: just pull out whatever functionality you need for your specific blog! Many people have asked me for my list of top WordPress plugins. [...]
Intelligent Site Structure for better SEO
Search engines are still one of the most important traffic drivers to sites these days, which is why Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is incredibly important. While SEO is often thought to be just a set of some technical tricks – and as a professional SEO, I confess to spending a lot of time with clients [...]
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!
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 [...]
Move WordPress to a new domain in 10 easy steps!
A friend recently asked me how to move his blog, which is on /blog/ on his domain, to a new domain on its own. The steps to move WordPress are easy, but have to be taken in the right order to make sure you’re not annoying your users and the search engines. I know a [...]
Questions and Answers
Last sunday evening I started taking questions on my Facebook page, and I promised to answer them in a blog post here, so here we go: If I have just made changes to my WP site, does it help to toggle the cache plugin? Absolutely. My SEO plugin force refreshes the cache because otherwise people [...]
Meta Description for Search & Social
Auto-generate your way to SEO success? Meta descriptions elements have many uses and can be constructed in several ways. A good meta description entices the user to click, both by the fact that it contains enticing, well readable text and by the fact that it contains the sought for keywords, as that get’s bolded in [...]
Tools To Improve Your Online Marketing Campaign
I recently gave a presentation at the Bol.com partner event about tools I use every day for my online marketing campaigns and site analyses, and I thought it’d be cool to share them with you in a post as well, even though for some of you this list might be a bit basic. Google Analytics [...]
Dirty little secret of Blog SEO
To optimize your blog, you have to do more than just install a few plugins, proper Blog SEO is about optimizing content after getting a few technicalities right.
Duplicate content: causes and solutions
Search engines like Google have a problem. They call it “duplicate content”: your content is being shown on multiple pages locations on and off your site and they don’t know which location to show. Especially when people start linking to all the different versions of the content, the problem becomes bigger. This article is meant [...]
