iamseo.org
Just another (SEO) Wordpress weblog
Just another (SEO) Wordpress weblog
This user hasn't shared any biographical information
Homepage: http://iamseo.org
January 31, 2010 - 6:40 am
Tags: Capture IP, Capture Location, Capture Referrer, Capture Referring URL, Newsletter Signup Form, Subscriber Field, Subscriber Form, User Country, User Location
Posted in How To | Comments
Are you getting the most out of your subscriber signup forms?
I’m starting some new campaigns and wanted to get as much info as possible on my subscribers.
Here’s what I was after:
Record the referring URL
By recording the referring URL and monitoring user’s interaction with my newsletters, I can find out which pages or search phrases send [...]
October 28, 2009 - 9:03 pm
Tags: Free Links, Geocities, Geocities Links
Posted in Link Building | Comments
Ten years since they paid far too much for it, Yahoo! has pulled Geocities this week.
What does that mean for SEOs? Mostly, it means there are TONNES of links waiting to be picked up. 850 million, in fact, says a group called Majestic SEO.
Here’s the concept: thousands of these Geocities pages have been taken down. [...]
October 22, 2009 - 11:12 pm
Tags: Remove Category from URL, Wordpress, Wordpress Hack
Posted in Wordpress | Comments
There’s now a great plugin for this!
See WP No Category Base to download and install the plugin. It does all that the hack below does, but better, and instantly.
In fact, I did have some issues with the hack after upgrading Wordpress, so found this plugin instead.
So this one’s been a killer for a long [...]
October 20, 2009 - 7:59 pm
Tags: Digital Internship, Intern, Internship
Posted in Work | Comments
A colleague recently forwarded this online intern opportunity for a student in media / communications or business / marketing studies.
As the document mentions, part of the role is utilising social media such as Facebook and Twitter, so I imagine most college students would have half the experience already – regardless of their discipline!
Having worked with [...]
October 1, 2009 - 2:44 am
Tags: Easy SEO Strategy, seo
Posted in SEO News | Comments
If you’ve found this, you’re no doubt up on SEO. Which means you’ve also probably got a tonne of old blog posts packed with juicy keywords?
Perhaps you’ve also found that your crawl rate is lower than it has been, and only a small portion of your site is indexed?
This was the case with Super Free [...]
September 29, 2009 - 5:06 pm
Tags: Automatic Backlinks, Free Backlinks, seo
Posted in Link Building, SEO News | Comments
If you haven’t heard of Automatic Backlinks yet, you’re missing out on one of the great new ways of gathering backlinks. Like many link-building platforms that have risen up of late, it’s about empowering webmasters to generate their own links in the simplest way. Read on for more!
June 13, 2009 - 11:56 pm
Tags: Wordpress, wordpress fix, wp-admin reloads
Posted in Wordpress | Comments
It seems I’m not the only one that has had issues with the Wordpress login page (wp-admin) reloading itself without logging in.
I made a post on the Wordpress support thread with my fix, though thought I should expand here. This may not fix the issue for all users, as the reloading might be the result [...]
June 2, 2009 - 11:59 pm
Tags: bing bot, bing user agent, bing.com, msn bot, msnbot, robots.txt
Posted in SEO News | Comments
Sometimes it’s the absolute simplest questions that you have to dig around for online!
This had me stumped for five or ten minutes, until I saw a comment on the Bing Twitter.
Which user agent / bot does Bing.com use to crawl your site?
The answer is msnbot.
To add msnbot to your robots.txt file, add the following:
User-agent: msnbot
May 27, 2009 - 1:11 am
Tags: hire me, hire seo employees, Work
Posted in Work | Comments
After the trip to the UK with my current employer, I am back in Sydney, Australia and looking for the next challenge!
I’ve made an enjoyable progression over the last few years through Journalism, some authoring in Publishing, a few nights out Sydney-Socialising, playing Bingo Mogul at the top of Google with some SEO and, most [...]