Similar Posts

The Similar Posts Wordpress Plugin is an automated plugin that looks at Posts and adds other posts from your website that are related and links them.  This is useful for the reader to see other posts that have been written and can increase your SEO since it creates internal backlinks.  It hasn't been updated in quite some time, but it seems to work perfectly in the latest release of Wordpress.

Similar Posts also requires the plugin Post-Plugin library to be installed.

Best SEO Plug-Ins for WordPress

Right now I think the Best SEO Plug-ins for Wordpress are

• Wordpress SEO by Yoast - Yoast knows Google and how to rank web pages.  Wordpress is a free plugin and everyone with a wordpress website should have this. To find out more check out Yoast's Website.
• Easy WordPress SEO by Chris Landrum - Currently the website is up, but isn't active.  You can find out more about the program on the Warrior's Forums.  Easy Wordpress SEO is a premium plug-in and as such isn't free.  The current price is $35.

SEO Strategies

I just want to post something dealing with SEO Strategies.  I will be posting links to articles and forums where people talk about their SEO strategies that work for them.  Feel free to add your own.

1. SEO Strategy - Here is one I found on the Warriors Forum that I thought was pretty detailed.

Pinterest - Adding a Pin It Button To Wordpress or Blogger

Pinterest is a new player on the scene in the social network space.  The website has exploded and is becoming a huge player. 

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows users to organize and share images and video found across the web.  Users can search for and browse pinboards created by other people to discover what other people are pinning. 

The Pinterest Pin It functionality allows you to Pin anything that catches your eye: cool pictures, great articles, or fun finds!  A Pin (basically a bookmark) can be added by visiting a website by clicking a Pin It button.  The Pin It buttons are similar to a Like for Facebook or a Tweet This for Twitter.  Each pin added using the Pin It button links back to the site it came from.

WordPress Permalink Settings

When setting up a new Wordpress Blog website the default permalink setting looks something like this http://www.endthetrendnow.com/?p=123.

The problem with this structure is visitors will have a hard time remembering the actual URL since the URL contains just a number. It is also not very SEO friendly, since the actual URL will not contain the keywords you're looking to rank for.

I see a lot of Wordpress websites where the URL has dates in it.  Is this a good permalink setting?

Normally the sites that should employ this type of permalink structure would be news sites, where a date might help in organizing material.  It has also been known to lower traffic and CTR from older search results.  When people see an older date in the URL, they may not click on the link, since they think the link is old or out of date. 

Open Graph

What's all this business with Open Graph? 

The Open Graph protocol enables you to integrate your pages into the social graph. These pages gain the functionality of other graph objects including profile links and stream updates for connected users.

Ok, that's nice.  Tell me exactly what it means for me as a website owner or blog owner and why is it important for SEO.

Basically any website can implement the Open Graph protocol. It allows any web page to become a rich object in any social graph, making it easy to find what people are liking across the Web -- from a movie to a blog.

Cool SEO Tools To Help You Save Time

There a lots of SEO Tools out there that can help you save time and combine tasks.  As I find them I will be adding here.

GrabInbox is an easy way to manage multiple twitter, facebook, fan pages and linkedin accounts all in one application rather than having to log into each app/website.

• Manage multiple social networks.
• Quickly schedule messages on twitter and facebook.

Twitter - Unfollow

One of the things Twitter interface currently doesn't do well is it's search functionality and managing an account's Followers and Following.  Luckily they have allowed the public access to their API and programmers in turn have created all sorts of Twitter related applications.

Twitter Rules and Best Practices

Twitter has throttle down accounts to try to deal with people setting up accounts for spamming purposes.  They did this by limiting the number of followers a user can have.  When you first setup a Twitter account you are only allowed to Follow up to 2000 Twitter users.  In order to increase this amount you must have 2000 Twitter followers.  Once you’ve followed 2000 users, there are limits to the number of additional users you can follow: this limit is different for every user and is based on your ratio of Followers to Following. They also have other policies in place like regulating follow churn and aggressive following.

Boost your Facebook Follower Count

There are several services out there that can boost your facebook page likes.  Basically this helps Boost your reputation.  This can certainly help when trying to use your "like" count as part of your social media influence.  

Once such service is called Boostlikes.  They will even send you 100 real human likes to your Facebook fan page to get a taste of our powerful and effective services. Follow the steps below.

Boostlikes service exponentially grows your social media following to improve your reputation. Use our services to buy Facebook likes and fans, Twitter followers, and Google+ votes, all at highly competitive prices.

DownsideMany of these boosting services don't have active users promoting your website. Usually they haveaccounts setup by users who don't actively participate.  So if your goal is to receive traffic and conversions from these social metrics, you probably aren't going to succeed.

So definitely check out Boostlikes buy Facebook likes

Social Signals

Social Signals are the name of the game right now and Social Bookmarks have become a fundamental part of any serious SEO campaign. Articles and pages can up their ranking for keywords with just quality Social Bookmarks.

Right now Google loves Social Bookmarks, especially High PR, Trusted ones.

If you are serious about reaching the top of Google, you need to include a Social Bookmarking scheme as part of the equation. 

The problem with Social Bookmarks is it is really time consuming unless you have some type of automated software.