Category SEO WordPress

Pages better than posts?

Is there any advantage to using Pages as opposed to regular posts from a search engine optimization point of view?

Showing excerpt on category pages

How do you show expcerpts on your WordPress category pages?

WordPress and duplicate content

When you make a post on your WordPress blog, it will show up on your homepage, your archive pages and your category pages. All that in addition to its own permalink post page. So you end up with between 1-3 (or more) pages that contain almost exactly the same content. Should you be concerned about duplicate […]

Blogs: duplicate content vs. usability

Should you publish full posts or excerpts on your index pages—home page, category pages and archives? It seems users would prefer full posts, but having too much identical text on too many pages might cause you to suffer a duplicate content penalty in Google. How to get the best of both worlds? How to please […]

Removing » separator from titles

You are trying to optimize your WordPress titles for the search engines, but that stupid » (double-arrow) separator always shows up before your post or page title. How do you get rid of it?
You either use a plugin for that, or modify the wp_title() in the TITLE tag of your template header.php file to read […]

Publish posts: all at once or over time?

You are putting up a new blog and have a bunch of articles pre-written for it. Is it better to post all of these on the same day, or should you space them out over a week or two? Does it make a difference?
Yes, it does. You want to space your posting out a bit. […]

MS Word to WordPress copy-pasting

You just spent the last 3 hours creating new WordPress posts by copy-pasting from your Microsoft Word document. But, now that you checked your posts, the code is loaded with funky characters and it looks funny on some browsers. What went wrong? Will it affect your search engine rankings? What can you do about it?
The […]