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By Jim Westergren

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SEO for WordPress - The Complete Guide
Posted in SEO Articles, WordPress on March 20th, 2007

I’m an SEO and I have been working a lot with WordPress, here I give you all my tips for you to rank very well in Google with your blog.
UPDATE: Check this blog post for a better guide.
Quick Facts

There are 55 million blogs out there, if you don’t stand out you will have no chance.
The […]


Link to Me Textbox WordPess Plugin
Posted in Link Building, WordPress on November 6th, 2006

This is a WordPress plugin that will give you more links and higher rankings in the search engines.
Most bloggers knows the importance of getting links in order to get high rankings in search engines. But did you know that the best links are those that are natural recommendations? Additionally I experienced better rankings across all […]


Tutorial: Automatic Site Map for WordPress
Posted in WordPress on October 22nd, 2006

To improve the navigation of your users as well as search engine traffic and ranking to your WordPress blog I suggest making a good site map of your posts - a map of your site. A kind of user friendly archive of your posts. This is not “Google sitemap”!
The benefits:

The user can quickly find a […]


WordPress Plugins Used
Posted in WordPress on February 5th, 2006

Here are the Plugins that I currently use on this blog and I like them a lot.

Link to Me Textbox by Jim Westergren
This plugin will set up a “link to me textbox” with HTML code in your blog posts and increase your search engine rankings.

Exec-PHP by Sören Weber
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages […]


WordPress users - sharpen your URLs with Google!
Posted in SEO, WordPress on January 24th, 2006

First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done.
Now to the point. Did you know that these are all different URLs for the same blog post?
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post/
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post/
Google sees this as 4 different URLs and 4 different pages when in fact it is only one. One of them will rank higher […]


List of WordPress ping URLs
Posted in WordPress on January 4th, 2006

Latest update around 2 years later:
Check out The Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger

Check out the big ping list of 56 URLs at this blog post.
I have now added all those URLs to Options -> Writing -> Update Services in the admin, I only had 2 of them already. Will be very interesting what will happen […]


Changed theme! (again)
Posted in My sites, WordPress on December 12th, 2005

This one I really like!
Much better than the other one and I have integrated all the nice features that I had before.
This one was not part of the around 200 themes that I was browsing before to select the previous one. I arrived to this one by following a signature link of a web designer […]


Tutorial: Feed your sites by blogging!
Posted in Link Building, My sites, SEO Articles, WordPress on November 30th, 2005

Are you also the kind of webmaster with 5, 10 or even 20 web sites with the plan of making a living only through your own sites?

How do you make sure that the content on all your sites are always fresh with related information?
How can you make sure that new pages you write are indexed […]