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SEO Title Tag Review – Use It Now!!

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:32:18 +0000

For bloggers out there on Wordpress and interested in building your organic (SEO) traffic then you need to give the SEO Title Tag plugin a look.

The plugin has been around for years and is still the best that I know of for helping you rank better in the search engines. SEO Title Tag lets you tweak the page title tag, which is what shows up in the very top blue bar of your browser and what search engines use as the title in their search results. Having the right keywords in the page title can be huge for ranking better.

List of the Best (and Worst) Blog Directories

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:27:49 +0000

For new blogs especially, picking up a few links from blog directories can help get the search engines to notice your site. But knowing which blogs are best to submit to can be tricky. Here’s our favorites:

Best Free Blog Directories

Blogged.com – Nice, easy to use site. Free listings and a decent place to find other bloggers.

Spill Bean – Like this one a lot especially since it took the blod step to not have ‘blog’ in its name. Bravo SpillBean.

Bloggapedia – Not a lot of blogs listed, which could be a good or a bad thing, but its worth a try.

Blog Catalog – Make sure your blog has a bunch of content before you submit, but once it does Blog Catalog is well worth submitting to.

Blogging Fusion – The header reads “Total blogs approved this week: ( 2 )” and its Thursday currently, so although its free I’m not sure many sites get let in.

Best Paid Blog Directories

Best of the Web Blogs – If you pay for any blog directories, this is the one to pay for.

Eaton Web – Probably the next best paid blog directory out there. $34.99 to list but its unfortunately an annual fee.

Bloggeries.com – $39.99 seems a bit steep for a mediocre site, but it is a one time only fee which is nice and would be a nice link to snag.

Worst Blog Directories – Avoid These

BiggerBlogger.com – Total waste of time. You have to register just to find out it costs $1/month to be on the site.

Setting Up SEO Optimized Titles in Wordpress

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:21:30 +0000

Setting up SEO optimized titles in Wordpress can be the difference between a little organic traffic and a lot more organic traffic. To set optimized titles up though you have a few different options:

Use a commonly available Wordpress plugin such as SEO Title Tag or All In One SEO Pack. Both give you full control of your Wordpress titles and allow you to SEO optimize them as you see fit.
A lazy man’s approach is to update your header.php file and replace the with following:
<?php wp_title(””); ?><?php if(wp_title(””, false)) { echo ‘ :: ‘; } ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); if(is_home()) { echo ‘ :: ‘; bloginfo(‘description’); } ?>

Doing this puts “Blog Name :: Description” on the hompage and “Title :: Blog Name” on all other pages which for me is close enough to perfect and then I don’t need to worry about setting up any plugins and keeping the plugin updated.

Any other tips on SEO optimized titles? Share them below…