Luke’s $10k A Week Blog

Recently I found this nifty plugin called Crawl Rate Tracker. It works like magic! The link to see the crawls being tracked is right there on your dashboard, which I find highly convenient. I highly recommend installing this one.

Also, the related post plugin is another handy plugin that can make a big difference in how your links are crawled and indexed by search engines. As Court explains,

Google likes to see a good amount of internal linking in your site. The reasoning behind this is very simple; if there are a lot of internal links in the site, it will be easier for the user to navigate around. For this reason, Google will reward you for having a lot of internal links.

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I’ve been educating myself (slowly but surely) on how to get more traffic on my blog — or any site for that matter. One of the most important things of course is to get Google to turn my pages up first on a search. The key factor in this is Page Rank.

I figured out how to give away page rank to valued readers who post comments. However, there are hazzards to giving away links indiscriminately. Whenever you link from one page to another, you automatically reduce the value of the one and increase the value of the other, to some degree.

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I have just installed the Nofollow Free plugin. This is good news if you have a blog or website and are looking to get some google ranking by posting comments here.

In case you didn’t know, Google recently implemented a convention of not counting any link labeled “nofollow” towards their rankings. The good news is that this reduces the chance that spammers will be able to get higher ranking from posting nonsensical comments to blogs. The bad news is that it keeps legitimate commentors from being able to tell others about their site as effectively.

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An extremely valuable plugin for me has been the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. I like to publish articles in advance, and wordpress’s default pinging behavior on this is really lame. It sends the ping as soon as you hit “Publish” then fails to ping when the article actually shows up on your page! MBP Ping Optimizer delays the ping to the time when the article shows up on your page.

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SEO, the acronym for search engine optimization, is a popular buzzword these days. Google and other search engines prefer well-ordered content with certain attributes. It turns out wordpress contains several built-in features that favor this.

SEO for WordPress Blogs White Paper

It’s rather interesting for someone new to SEO and blogging. Some points:

• Always fill in the “optional excerpt” field for each post. Search engines hate redundancy, so if you don’t type something unique here your categories page will look cheezy to them. So don’t actually put an excerpt — put a description.
• You can customize the permalink style to  /%category%/%postname%/. This makes every link to the articles look like it is inherently sorted for relavence.
• There’s tons of plugins for SEO-related stuff. For example, you can place links to those social bookmarking places at the end of each post.

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