There is a lot of heated discussion amongst web designers and developers about web standards, their meaning and importance. Some people say they are used mainly to show off that you really master HTML and CSS. Some people say web standards have already been talked about for too long, everything about them have already been written down and they have been already been accepted by a majority of designers and developers. [...]
By default, Wordpress comments (or more specifically author links) have an unpopular nofollow attribute assigned which means that search engine spiders do not follow these links. In other words, they are ignored (not counted as backlinks). By removing this attribute you can make your blog comments dofollow (i.e. followed by search engines). [...]
While browsing my favorite webmaster forums (Digital Point, Namepros and others), I have noticed many people asking whether a domain extension (also called a TLD - i.e. top-level-domain) does matter and especially whether it has any effect on search engine rankings. I have been quite surprised by an amount of misinformation and myths flowing around. Moreover, there isn’t really much of credible information on this matter on the Internet and that is why I am writing this article. [...]
Wordpress permalinks are the permanent URLs to weblog posts, categories and such. The URL to each post should be permanent and never change - hence permalink. They are used by other peope as well as by search engines to link to your posts. One of the most important factors for SEO (see SEO Explained) is the URL. If your post’s URL contains relevant keywords, your post will naturally rank better. Wordpress default permalinks will work flawlessly in all server environments. However, they contain no keywords and thus are very bad for SEO. Fortunately, Wordpress offers almost unlimited possibilities to modify your blog’s permalinks. Just log in and go to Settings - Permalinks. [...]
On Page SEO or On Page search engine optimization deals exclusively with the content of your website. On Page SEO refers to optimizing the text and content within your website in order to make it as search engine friendly as possible. That includes making sure that your targeted keywords are present in your content in an adequate extent as well as distributing them properly. [...]
SEO (i.e. Search Engine Optimization) is a process of designing or modifying a website (taking into consideration technology, structure and content) in order to improve its rankings for relevant keywords and/or phrases within a search engine’s database. SEO seeks to make the website search engine friendly and more visible in SERPs (i.e. Search Engines Results Pages). The main aim of SEO is to attract targeted traffic, visitors and potential customers. A practice of SEO can consist of far too many elements thus many SEO practitioners consider themselves being part of a more general field called website optimization. [...]
