Honestly, I like Yoast SEO. I’ve been using it for a long time and will continue to use it. However, after experience with troubleshooting, and also with clientele, there’s a rare occasion that the solution is completely removing Yoast SEO from your database completely before re-installing it. It really is rare, and usually is because
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Podcast Presentation: WordPress SEO – Getting Back to the Basics
At WordCamp St. Louis 2014, I was honored to speak on WordPress SEO: Getting Back to the Basics. This is a very dear topic to me as I see a lot of sites, even well known ones not doing it right. They are the same people that complain about their rank going down, or losing
[Continue Reading...]The Ultimate Checklist to Setting Up a New WordPress Blog
Blogging has evolved over the years to becoming a cultural thing. Each blog represents the voice of someone passionate (at least I hope that each blogger is passionate about what they do) about what they like to write about. However, it is no longer just open up a new blog and write away. There are
[Continue Reading...]The Best Permalink Structure To Use In WordPress
I wrote Mastering Pretty Permalinks in WordPress with the intention to introduce the concept of the best permalink structure for WordPress powered websites. This was a call to try to encourage people to organize their website, but beware of how the permalink structure might be overrode if you have a file folder name the same
[Continue Reading...]Blondish.net Podcast: Blogging and SEO
Episode 2 of the Blondish.net Podcast is a little beginner coverage on blogging and SEO. I wanted to cover basics on SEO for the content and design. I do recommend in this post the plugin WordPress SEO by Yoast. I go over some advice for writing the title and the content of a post as
[Continue Reading...]Mastering Pretty Permalinks in WordPress
What is pretty permalinks? Well for a brief explanation that is not difficult, it is changing the settings in your WordPress URL structure from yoursite.com/?p=2 , title ‘About’ to yoursite.com/about/ ( /%postname%/ ). To use this ‘pretty’ permalink structure and incorporate both pages and posts, you need to remember your hierarchy structure of your site.
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