How to Change Dirty URL into Clean SEO Friendly URL
February 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Optimizing your blog for the search engine is crucial for improving your search engine ranking and helping Google tells what your pages are about. By default, WordPress’ URLs uses question marks and numeric characters, which I call “Dirty URLs”. Dirty URLs can prohibits awareness of your website and content.
What Are Dirty URLs?
While websurfing, I have noticed some dirty urls that should be avoided.
Here are a few examples:
http://mywebiste.com/?p=46
or http://mywebsite.com/pl?id=4&view=basic
“Dirty url” is known to confuse the heck out of the search spiders. If you have a look at the above url, would you ever recall the link off the top of your head and/or determine the keywords pertaining to the post? Probably, not!
Spiders, also known as crawlers, follow and crawls links throughout the internet, seeking contents and adding them into the search engine indexes. The more confusing links to your site, the less likely the search spider will crawl and index all of your pages.
Making a Dirty URL Clean and SEO Friendly
Fortunately, Word press provides options to customize your website url structure to improve search engine ranking and sharing compatibility.
Here’s is quick solution:
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Login your WP Dashboard
How To Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile [VIDEO] Part I
January 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This video tutorial will show you how to optimize your LinkedIn Profile. For Part I of II, we will discuss some quick SEO tips for your LinkedIn header and anchor text links.
Start Your Own Virtual Business with Gail M. Reid, CPA and Author
May 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Start Your Own Virtual Company with Gail M. Reid, CPA and Author
Have you recently received the pink slip or just ready to take the plunge into entrepreneurship, but unsure where to start? Then, this is the show you don’t want to miss.
To survive in this shaky economy we need to avoid overhead cost, become more efficient, and heed sound advice from an expert, Gail Margolies Reid.
Gail Margolies Reid is a CPA, small business consultant and the Author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Low-Cost Startups. She will offer her insight and expertise on how to become a virtual entrepreneur and the key ingredients of a startup business.
Blazing Blogging Tips from the Top Bloggers
March 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Guest: Stephane Grenier
Author of Blog Blazer and the Founder of LandlordMax Software, Inc.
Show Topic: Creating A High-Profile, High-Traffic, and High-Profit Blog Isn’t Rocket Science!
Nan: How long does it take to become a successful blogger?
Steph: It depends on how you define success. On average, it takes about a year. My blog has been around for five years. It took two to three years to get my blog going.
A lot of people give up too fast. It is difficult to reach success with blogging in six month. Give yourself time. It is more about pacing yourself instead of sprinting. It is about building up a community and watching it spread like wildfire.
10 Facebook Apps to Add Some Sizzle to Your Business Page
January 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
LinkedIn is no longer the only business-
networking site to hit mainstream. With the number of applications designed specifically for business needs, Facebook has become more and more tailored to business professionals. With over 200 applications, you can network, collaborate and promote your business from your Facebook profile. If you want to add some style to your business page, whether it is posting your blog content, streamlining your YouTube videos or adding a presentation, Facebook apps is a great social media advertising and branding vehicle.
The following is a list of my favorite Facebook apps for making your profile “sizzle”;
10 Hot Tips for Bloggers
January 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
I have been blogging for about two years now. I had made some mistakes but have learned a whole lot. My blog is a reflection of who I am as a person, a teaching forum for others and a platform to have fun with technology. There are thousands of blogging tips and hundreds of plugins that can help you become more effective and to increase readership. Therefore, given my 24 months of blogging I will now share some tips that helped lead to my success.
1. Use WordPress. There are tons of blogging platforms, from Blogger to TypePad, but no other platform stands out from the rest like WordPress. WordPress has so many features and plugins that will enhance the look and style of your blog and it makes posting content so easy that it can be done by web, email and even from your iPhone or BlackBerry.
