WordPress Performance: Speed Up a Slow WordPress!

by Canonical SEO on January 12, 2010

WordPress Performance Improvements

Do you have a slow WordPress site? Have you been wondering how to speed up the performance of WordPress? WordPress site performance is likely going to become increasingly important since Google is now considering using page load times as a ranking factor in Caffeine. Today I learned a way to speed up WordPress by changing something amazingly simple.

Learn how to improve your site’s WordPress performance.

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Theme Pyramids: An SEO Friendly Site Architecture

by Canonical SEO on December 27, 2009

Pyramid Themes and SEO

Learn about theme pyramids – an SEO friendly site architecture. They can do wonders for your search engine rankings by improving your site’s “flow of relevance”. Find out what they are, why they work, and how to implement them.

Improve your search engine rankings with theme pyramids.

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Site Performance feature Google WMT Labs

Google continues to buid out their free Webmaster Tools by adding a new feature to the Labs section to help webmasters monitor their site performance and suggest changes to the site which might improve page load times. I take this as a strong hint as to the importance that page load times will play when Caffeine is completely rolled out to all Google data centers.

Learn about the new Site Performance feature in Google’s WMT.

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How Google snippets are chosen for the search results

Google snippets are often a mystery to webmasters. There often seems to be no rhyme or reason to how Google choses a snippet to display in their SERPs for a particular URL. But there is a method and knowing how to leverage it can mean more traffic.

Learn about how Google snippets are chosen for their SERPs.

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Great Search Engine Marketing Conference: Pubcon!

by Canonical SEO on November 19, 2009

Search engine marketing conference: Pubcon in Las Vegas

Regardless of whether you are just beginning to learn about search engine optimization or are a seasoned veteran, there are a couple good search engine marketing conferences out there which you should attend. Pubcon is my search engine marketing conference of choice.

Learn about Pubcon, a great search engine marketing conference.

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New Keyword Significance Details Added to Google’s WMT

by Canonical SEO on November 13, 2009

New keyword significance details added to Google's Webmaster Tools

Google has added yet another new feature to its Webmaster Tools to assist webmasters in tracking down pages which might have been hacked. The new feature will also be useful for optimizing pages. The changes were added to the “Keywords” page of the “Your site on the web” section to show additional information about significant keywords used throughout the site.

Learn about the new keyword details added to Google’s WMT.

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Redirecting Web Pages: 301 Redirect Basics

by Canonical SEO on November 2, 2009

Redirecting web pages with 301 redirects

Every webmaster and SEO on the planet should know about redirecting web pages. While there are many means by which to accomplish web page redirection, only the 301 Permanently Moved redirect is SEO-friendly and transfers credit for the old URL’s inbound links over to the new URL.

Learn the basics of redirecting web pages.

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Regex Basics: A Regular Expression Tutorial

by Canonical SEO on October 29, 2009

Learn regex basics

Have you ever heard of regex? If you have ever seen it then you likely know that it can be very cryptic and seemingly impossible to learn. But if you start slowly studying basic regex examples, you will be creating your own regex patterns in no time!

Learn about basic regex pattern matching.

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WWW or No WWW: Which is Better for SEO?

by Canonical SEO on October 22, 2009

www or no www in URLs

New webmasters are always asking whether using www or no www is best from a search engine optimization (SEO) perspective. Get the facts on the decision that needs to be made and how not making the decision can affect your rankings.

Learn more about www vs. non-www URLs.

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How to Learn Search Engine Optimization

by Canonical SEO on October 20, 2009

Learn search engine optmization and earn!

Learning about search engine optimization requires more than just a day or two of reading forums and blogs. It is a process that requires many months or years to become even somewhat proficient as an SEO.

Discover how to learn SEO.

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