Having a Related Posts feature on your blog creates more interconnections between blog posts, which is a good thing as it passes around more link gain (e.g. PageRank). I recently installed the Contextual Related Posts plugin on my blog, so now you’ll be able to see that each permalink page lists related posts at the […]

A tag cloud and tag pages are a blogger’s secret weapon. I can’t believe how few bloggers do this. I’m not talking about Technorati tags, although those are useful too. I’m talking about using a plugin like Ultimate Tag Warrior, which is exactly the plug-in I installed to create tag pages like this one. So […]

Dynamic URLs can impede the search engine spiders from fully spidering and indexing your blog. Err on the side of caution and use “rewritten” URLs. The excellent (and free!) blogging software WordPress supports URL rewriting, so you can have nice, search engine friendly URLs. Better still, the WordPress URLs contain hyphens rather than underscores (like […]

From an search engine optimization perspective, the title tag is the most important thing on the page. It gets the most weight by the search engines. Most blogs don’t have search engine optimal title tags. (Heck, most sites in general don’t have optimal title tags!) The best title tag is one that LEADS with the […]

Here’s a really cool SEO tool: Webmaster Eyes. It rivals the usefulness of the handy SEO-Links, a Firefox extension which I’ve blogged about before. Webmaster Eyes reveals the PageRank scores of all links on a page. Just specify a URL and the page is displayed with a PageRank score overlayed onto each link.