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It’s Not Too Late to Tweak Your WordPress Permalinks
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
If your WordPress site is already up and running and you neglected to make pretty permalinks, it’s not too late. Permalinks are the direct links websites use to link to your content. If you set them up using “pretty permalinks” they’ll help boost your site’s ranking in search engines. But if you [...]
Pretty Permalinks Can Help You in the Search Engines
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
One way to improve your search engine ranking is to use what are called “pretty permalinks.” Permalinks are the direct and permanent links to your blog entries. It’s what websites use to link to your content.
By default, WordPress creates permalinks that are short and ugly. They look like this:
http://www.mysite.com/?p=206
It doesn’t mean anything [...]
Easy SEO: Google Sitemaps Generator Plugin
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
One of the easiest ways to boost your search engine optimization (SEO) for a WordPress site is to install the Google Sitemaps Generator plugin. It boosts your SEO by creating a sitemap, which is a widely adopted search engine standard that helps search engine robots crawl your site. It was created by [...]
5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Business Website
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
It’s not enough to simply have a website these days. You have to make the most of it. Here are five basic tips to make sure you’re getting the most out of your website:
Don’t Forget the Call to Action
What is it you want people to do on your site? Should they be [...]
3 Tips to Improve Your Online Writing
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
Writing for the web is a whole new game. People don’t have time to read and you can’t afford for people to miss what you have to say. So here are three tips to improve your online writing:
1. Keep it Short
People tend to skim when they’re looking at a computer screen. They [...]
5 Tips For Writing Headlines That Work
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
The headline can be the most important copy in your blog entry, news article or e-mail newsletter. Sometimes it’s the only copy people will read—but if you do it right, they’ll keep on reading.
Here are 5 tips for writing headlines that work:
Communicate Something
More than anything your headline needs to communicate. It needs [...]
Barack Obama Has No Search Box
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
It’s not enough to simply make great content available on your site. It also has to be findable. If people can’t find your stuff, how will they know it’s so great?
I recently visited the website for presidential candidate Barack Obama with a very specific question. Nowadays candidate’s websites are chock full of [...]
What Is SEO and Why Do I Care?
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
SEO is yet another techie acronym to add to your arsenal. It stands for Search Engine Optimization and is all about optimizing your website’s position in search results. Many books have been written about SEO and websites are dedicated to it. It’s big business—and it should be.
Showing up higher in search results [...]
5 Reasons to Build Your Own Business Website
By Kevinby Kevin D. Hendricks
If you run a small business, organization or cash-strapped project and you need an online presence then it’s time you embraced the do-it-yourself web. It’s cheaper, faster and easier than you think. Plus you get to be in charge and changing your mind doesn’t break the bank.
The best advice I heard when [...]
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