JohnHGohde

Are Wordpress developers born mute? Some people with an inquiring mind want to know what their problem is.

Have you been following the latest Wordpress plugin releases? Is there a contest going on for writing the briefest and most obscure descrip read more »
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Some of the most important Wordpress SEO plugins, like the Add Link Attribute plugin by Kaf Oseo are relatively unknown.

A lot of bloggers have been up in arms about Wordpress forcing them to use nofollow on comment hyperlinks. There are a number read more »
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I have noticed something very disappointing. It appears that Google has stopped showing double or indented listings in the SERPs.

The hyperlink is for a search for apple. The top two entries would normally have been shown as a double listing. read more »
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Ranking well in the SERPs has nothing to do with earning trust. Authority sites only look impressive on Google listings. Google knows nothing about truth, nor trust. Google is interested in how a webpage behaves, as well as in the traffic patterns o read more »
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Google Webmaster Tool's current verification process has always been someone awkward for webmasters to get working and share with their clients. Googler, JohnMu, said that Google is testing a new verification process for their Webmaster Tools. read more »
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Vanessa Fox seems surprisingly timid and reluctant to be definitive on simple issues. Yet, she has written a lot on the subject of search engine optimization. Gleaming Vanessa’s writings for her intent rather than what she actually has written; it read more »
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Sphinn needs to add a Google custom search engine as one of its features.

Sphinn is not as great as my earlier impressions had first indicated. Sphinn is popular because SEMs have a never ending need to Spam. Spam is what Sphinn has. And, is bo read more »
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Why do search marketers always try to usurp the term SEO? Is it a part of a ritualistic cleansing process? Do they simply try to feel cleaner, by thinking of themselves as actually adding value to the Web? read more »
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The question of whether or not a given web page is crawlable in Google has not been an issue for a long time. Are you aware of this fact? Or do you engage in W3C Validation for superstitious reasons? The text-only version of Google's cache of any read more »
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Sitelinks result in a special form of a double-listing that is usually called an authority site. Authority sites really are a misnomer, however. There are very few Google authority sites for generic keywords. Usually there are only authority sites f read more »
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Google is running a tabloid search engine where gossip and popularity contests counts more than actual content. According to Google, it does not matter what the actual street address of your business is. What actually counts is what other people thi read more »
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