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6. Install WordPress in 15 Minutes There are some changes you need to make to the WordPress install files before you move forward with installing WordPress. First of all, it is necessary to make changes to wp_config.php in order to ensure that your installation will work. Without these changes, your installation will have problems. Please note as well that the items in the wp-config.php file are all in a specific order. This order DOES matter and if you make changes and you don’t know what you’re doing, you can introduce problems into your installation. … [Read more...] about How to Build a WordPress Site in 24 Hours

Note that including your site’s images in an Image Sitemap will help define the most important images on your site to Google. They don’t promise to index all of the images you list in the Sitemap or include all of the extra metadata you optionally provide, but they’re more likely to do so if you provide this data in a dedicated feed. They will certainly prioritize indexing the images noted in an Image Sitemap over those not listed in your site. … [Read more...] about A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps

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The idiom “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is in full view all over the web. We’ve all seen sites making mistakes. My own site is a case study in poor link optimization. I’ve made mistakes many times over the years. I’ve killed off pages with Pagerank. I’ve orphaned pages accidentally. I have no xml sitemap. I don’t do the rich snippets thing, I’m missing alt text. … [Read more...] about Recovering From Link Building Mistakes

Even these brief comments will have repercussions. I expect attacks. If you operate a directory not named Yahoo! and make money from it, of course it will piss you off if I tell the truth about it being useless. If you sell link building services based on press releases, same deal. You don’t want your clients reading this and asking you hard questions. That’s another reason most of us have kept quiet. Outing a useless service or tool (and believe me link building tools are a boondoggle bonanza) means the person who created the tool could lose their livelihood. Nobody should have that happen, right? … [Read more...] about Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanza