Optimize Your Database

by Scott Hendison | Jun 22, 2011 | SEO

One of the drawbacks to using WordPress is the fact that if you work hard on your website, not only by adding content regularly, but perhaps changing your page copy, trying different calls to action, working on conversions, etc. then your database can ultimately grow...

H1 Hack for WordPress Pages

by Heather | Dec 22, 2008 | Learning Wordpress, SEO, Wordpress Code, Wordpress Hack

WordPress H1 Hack – This allows you to change the H1 tag of the page without affecting the page name, title, and menu title of the page. This has most commonly been used in the page.php file of the WordPress themes only, but can certainly be applied to any page...

Pubcon Quote from Matt Cutts About WordPress

by Scott Hendison | Dec 11, 2007 | SEO

During the “Keynote Coffee Chat with Matt Cutts, Matt told everyone what he thought of WordPress, and what many savvy internet marketers already know… “If you do everything on WordPress, you’re pretty much covered for SEO.” That’s...

Safely & Easily Change Permalinks

by Scott Hendison | Nov 18, 2007 | Learning Wordpress, Plug-ins, SEO

Changing the permalinks structure on an existing WordPress blog can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Once you have an established URL structure, a change can cause you to not only lose search engine visibility, but all of your PageRank...

Using Anchor Text and Nofollow

by Scott Hendison | Nov 9, 2007 | Learning Wordpress, SEO

I’ve now redone the home page of the site, and added the final shoppingcart item,  which is a simple WordPress theme match without a content importation.  In my rush to get the site live, I completely left that out, but now the shopping page is complete. As a...