The Need for Speed – Site Speed and Google SEO

22 April 2010

Google has recently announced that site speed is now one of the components in their Search Engine algorithm. This has been on the cards for a while, when they effectively flagged it by including Site Performance in the labs section of Google Webmaster Tools.

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Creating a High Traffic Blog with Tim Ferriss

19 April 2010

Tim Ferriss, the author of the best selling “The Four Hour Workweek” explains how he uses Wordpress. It is always great to see how others use Wordpress, explaining what worked and what did’t.

At one stage during this video, I paused the video and immediately changed Categories to Topics on my blogs. I thought that Topics was a much better description that Categories.

The video is 50 minutes long so you are going to allocate some time to watch it.

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Adding Photos and Videos to WordPress Blog

18 April 2010

A picture tells a thousands words, but in some instances it just adds some life and pizazz to your site. Luckily adding photos and videos is really easy using Wordpress.

In this video from Wordpress.tv, you will see how to add photos and videos to your posts.

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Google SEO Report Card – Learn from Google’s Mistakes

16 April 2010

Google has posted a SEO Report Card on how well it’s own sites are optimised for Search Engines.  The Report card examines the on-page optimisation of the various components such as Titles, Descriptions, URL’s, Headers etc and shows how various Google products are doing it well and others need improvement. The best thing about the [...]

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Video: How to write and publish a WordPress post

16 April 2010

When you are using WordPress, writing and publishing blog posts will be your most common task. Using WordPress is pretty simple, if you can use a word processor and save the document, then you can use WordPress. You don’t have to know html code (it helps at times) but it is not essential. WordPress have [...]

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