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WordPress Content Spinner Plugin – SEO WordSpinner
Click to Download SEO WordSpinner 2.0.4
Download the SEO WordSpinner Plugin and test this great plugin out.
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Why use a content spinner?
There are a lot of content spinners out there (I won’t even bother linking to them, most are for spamming, not for SEO). The existing products allow you mass-export articles then submit them across content networks to build links using spammy articles. That is not what this plugin does. This plugin allows you to enhance your site’s SEO by reducing duplicate content.
Google has been improving its handling of duplicate content by implementing use of the canonical tag and updating its algorithm. They don’t punish a site for duplicate content, but having unique content is still better than duplicate content.
Different content in different context
Each of those pages will show the full content or an excerpt (summary) of the content on this page. Each will show a title for this article. The SEO WordSpinner plugin allows you to mix things up so that on each page, users will see different content that means the same thing, therefore avoiding duplicate content issues if done properly.
Posted in Plugins, SEO, WordPress
Tagged Article Spinner, Content, Content Spinner, meta tag, SEO, SEO Plugin, SEO Plugins, SEO Title Tags, SEO WordSpinner, tag, Title Tag, WordPress Article Spinner, WordPress Content Spinner, WordPress Plugins, WordPress SEO, WordPress SEO Plugin, WordPress SEO Plugins
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Add Custom Titles for Tags and Categories in WordPress
The Best WordPress SEO Plugin? A combination of two.
All in One SEO Pack (AIOSEO) is the leader in WordPress SEO plugins. It offers great functionality and simple integration into the process of writing a post. AIOSEO is not a perfect plugin, however, because it lacks some very important functionality:
- Custom category
titletags - Custom tag
titletags - Mass editing of page, post, tag and category
titletags/slugs
The plugin that has all of the features above (but lacks AIOSEO features) is SEO Title Tag, an imperfect but elegant solution to the list above. This article shows how to use both plugins and have them combine forces to create a powerful solution for getting custom titles on all your site’s pages.
Add Canonical Tags to Shopp Plugin for SEO
I am building a store using the Shopp plugin, and I noticed that there are possibilities for duplicate content issues:
- A product can be accessed both by
/shop/{productID}and/shop/{product-slug} - A tag can be accessed using
/shop/?shopp_tag={tag-uri}and/shop/tag/{tag-slug} - A tag can be accessed using
/shop/?shopp_category={category-id}and/shop/{category-uri}
Should Google somehow find it’s way into indexing these pages, the value of the identical indexed pages may drop. Canonical tags aim to remedy this situation, and are implemented by the hugely popular and awesome All in One SEO Pack plugin (see my other SEO tips regarding AIOSEO Pack plugin).
The Shopp plugin does not feature canonical tag support, so here’s a modification you can make that will add support for it without changing any core files in All in One SEO Pack, or in Shopp.
Posted in Shopp, WordPress
Tagged All in One SEO Pack, Canonical, Canonical Tag, SEO, Shopp Plugin, Shopping Cart, WordPress SEO, WordPress Shopping Cart
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Add Custom Taxonomy Title Tags Support to All-In-One SEO Pack
Get control over your custom taxonomy’s Title Tag
With Yoast’s Simple Taxonomies plugin, you can set up a custom categorization system for posts on your site known as a custom taxonomy. When trying to optimize these pages, I realized that the All in One SEO Pack plugin doesn’t have support for custom taxonomies, so it will not format the title properly. I’ve slapped together some code to improve the formatting of the title tag. See this code in action.
Posted in WordPress
Tagged AIOSEO, All in One SEO Pack, custom taxonomies, custom taxonomy, SEO Title, Simple Taxonomies, Taxonomies, Title Tag, WordPress SEO, Yoast
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WordPress Search Engine Friendly Logo
Optimize your logo using SEO-friendly techniques.
Google’s algorithm likes text more than images. It likes headlines more than paragraphs. You can increase how much weight your headline has by only having one or two of them. Having the same headline across all pages reduces the value of it each time.
Instead of having your logo be an image, or H1 image replacement using CSS, it’s now best practice to use a H1 (heading 1) for your home page and a P (paragraph) for the rest of your pages. Then, you can use the headline for your page’s title instead, and get more bang for your buck.
This is nothing new, but it’s best practice, and I hope those who don’t know this technique or code may find this helpful.
Posted in SEO
Tagged CSS, H1, Logo, SEO, SEO Link, SEO Logo, WordPress header, WordPress SEO
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SEO implications for updating your website
Will a website redesign hurt my rank?
When I am working with a client that already has a website, one of the first questions I am asked is “How will redesigning my website affect my rank?“ Here’s what to expect when launching your new website:
Your website will take a hit in the SERPs for 20-30 days
After updating a website, you can expect ~25 days of your ranking going down. I call it the "white knuckle month," but I've noticed the website always ranks better once the period is over.
Without fail, I’ve found that when I launch a new website, move a website to a new domain, redesign or make significant structural changes to a site, the website will drop in rank for 3-4 weeks.
SEO Randomizer: Save the Value of Your SEO'd Links
Update: Now use the SEO WordSpinner plugin to implement this concept.
Use the get_seo_spin() PHP function in your theme’s footer.php file.
Footer links are dropping in SEO value
How to stay relevant while getting great links
ArrayAs a web designer and SEO, I place links in the footers of most of my designs. Clients don’t mind (I always request the link), and it’s a high-quality link. Most small web design and SEO companies do. Footer links have become very spammy, however, and sites try to stuff as many links there as possible.
SEOmoz has an article about footer link optimization and claims that
Footer links may be devalued by search engines automatically
Check out the evidence – Yahoo! says they may devalue footer links, Bill Slawski uncovers patents suggesting the same and anecdotal evidence suggests Google might do this (or go further) as well. Needless to say, if you want to make sure your links are passing maximum value, it’s wise to avoid the footer (particularly the footer class itself).
The era of the PageRank-passing footer links are coming to an end. The search engines have a good reason for devaluing the links — but how can we get the juice back?
Let’s consider the following issues:
- Footer links are being devalued by search engines
- Footer links have a low click-through rate
- Having the same link on every page makes the link less valuable
- Google doesn’t like spam
Posted in Code, SEO, WordPress
Tagged Attribution, Denver SEO, Footer Links, Footer SEO, Google SEO, Nofollow, Nofollow SEO, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO Plugin, SEO Plugins, SEO Tricks, SEO Tutorial, WordPress, WordPress SEO
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Nofollow SEO for your WordPress Functions
Pretty crude idea of nofollow, isn't it?
While working on a recent website, I became frustrated by the lack of nofollow support in many WordPress functions. Make that, most WordPress functions.
There are a few WP functions that I wanted to add nofollow to, so here’s a list and a download link: Read more…