What is pinging and why should I do it?

by Henrik on September 24, 2009

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Pinging is a functionality built into Wordpress that sends a signal to special sites when there is new content on a blog.

The blog search engines are constantly checking these sites to learn where there is new content.

Often they will come to spider the new content within minutes.

This is the reason why you should set up pinging.

Normally spiders may take days to visit new content.

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Google Sitemaps to Improve Indexing

by Henrik on August 30, 2009

Google loves to get help when it comes to indexing your site.


The best way to do that is to tell them which pages are in your site and should be indexed.


For that purpose Google introduced a standardized way to provide this information: Google sitemaps (also works for other search engines).


The easiest way to generate site maps in Wordpress is to use a plugin. There are several good ones around.

We at seoforwordpress.com use Google XML Sitemaps.

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Validate Code To Improve SEO

August 30, 2009

Checking that your HTML follows the standards for web coding is crucial, as it may affect the way your pages are shown if they are a incorrect. This is one of the first things you should check after you get your site goes live. If it is not properly interpreted, it may not get the [...]

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WordPress Page Title Optimization

July 23, 2009

What is often overlooked that will improve your search engine optimization a lot is the format of the title of your page.
For most webpages, this may be a static setting, but WordPress allows for customization of the page title because each page is built dynamically.
So, on individual article pages, you can have your [...]

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Optimize WordPress Permalink Structure

July 9, 2009

WordPress gives you the possibility of customizing the Permalinks to your posts by defining a custom structure via the Options > Permalinks menu in your admin area. When starting a new blog this is one of the first things I do, before publishing any posts, as it makes your links optimized for search engines right [...]

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The Most Important SEO Trick

June 29, 2009

Okay, so it’s not really a trick.:-)
But it got you reading …
So, the most important individual factor in optimizing your WordPress blog for search engines is writing content which is both appealing to your readers and contains a healthy balance of the keywords and phrases your blog targets.
Appealing content will always draw more visitors than [...]

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Why you should read this blog

June 18, 2009

As they say in the Blues Brothers’ song: “Everybody…needs somebody…to love!”.
Since you are here I guess you run a blog – or plan to run one.
So you want more people – besides your mother – to love your blog and come back again and again for new content.
But before coming back people need to come [...]

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