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A new Blog? No, it just moved..

Filed Under: SEO BLogs

Most of you, have found this Blog to be on a sub-domain from the main site Design Cars.

And although that was were it started, it soon became obvious to me that it was not the best place for it.
No, Design Cars and this Joomla SEO Blog did not really match…from an SEO point of view that is.

Next to my other site and Blog about Joomla! Pathos Seo and that Joomla Blog I wanted to give you more information on search Engine Optimization for Joomla and WordPress and in a later stage also on Drupal.
All of them find examples of Open-source Content management systems and now you find that information in just one place.

So now the basic work is ready, the domain is claimed and then it was time to move the Blog here, to its new home http://herbertvandinther.com/

On the main site http://www.hummerbie.com/ you can find lots of articles already, but it will be growing fast, I hope you find the articles on the site just as helpful as my Blog posts.

With this move, I also changed the Template for the Blog, not much, but it has a wider view, new headers and somewhat new lighter colors.
For me the best improvement is the wide of the theme, so I can show you larger images and screen-shots, I hope you like it as well as I do.

If you find there is anything missing that was here before, please tell me so I can fix it…

In one of my next posts I will write about the how and what of the move, the difficulties and costs from an SEO Point of view of this kind of Blog moving, stay tuned!

Early Adopters use Gmail and RSS feeds, are You an Early Adopter?

Filed Under: Blogging, Optimization, Search Engine, SEO, SEO BLogs, SEO Optimization

I was reading an article by Wil Reynolds on The Thinkseer Blog about the Question Do you attract early adopters 

According to the recent research of Hitwise Wil Reynolds mentioned Gmail traffic has increased by 17 % since its no longer an “By Invitation only” service, but free for all.
Initial thoughts occur from this research, stating that in the US Gmail is used by Early Adopters that this is a new way to focus on those Early Adopters.

In his post Mr Reynolds makes a good point on stating that people who use RSS Feeds to keep up-to-date also are in the Early Adopter section and that RSS feeds could be a good way to target them in you marketing strategie.

Gmail and Feedburner

How nice to see…. Google and Feedburner..
If you use Feedburner you of course have set the Smartfeed Option to make sure you users can subscribe to your feed more easily than using an xml file..
(Feedburner – Feed – Optimize – Smartfeed)

But one thing most Feed publishers don't use (yet) is the ability to have Feedburner bring your Feed updates to email users.
(Feedburner – Feed – Publicize – Email Subscriptions) (Tip !!)
At the moment you as a publisher can choose between Feedburner, Feedblitz or R-Mail to handle those mail subscriptions for you.

I guess its just a matter of time before Google is going to integrate its Gmail service with a One-Click-Button to provide the updates via Gmail.
Why? Because there is just much more space for advertisements in Gmail then in a Post Feed…
Was this the real reason to buy Feedburner?

Now I love Netvibes to get my RSS feeds brought to me, does that make me an Early Adopter or just a Follower..

My call to action

It seems to some people that a Blog post must have some kind of “Call to Action”.
I normally just like to inform people about how I look at some things an write about that perspective.

Reading the post of Wil Reynolds, I do want to take a special approach to this one.
You see, I like Wil.. I did a post on a SEO video of him at the Affiliates Summit on my other Joomla SEO Blog on which he left a nice comment.
The content of the video is even better….be sure to check it..

So I thought it would be nice to return a favor…
Besides pointing Wil to The Real secret of getting Feed Subscribers
I hope you check out the Thinkseer Blog , read the informative posts and bring them up to the 100 Subscribers sooner than the end of this year :-)

For Wil a have a call to action to… Wil, this is your Feedburner subscription panel now:

Thinkseer Blog at the moment without email subscrption possiblity

Please activate the email subscription possibility from Feedburner and get into the Gmail users Early Adopters crowd with you blog… :-)

For you and everybody else, if you happened to like this Blog post, here are the Feedburner options to subscribe to this Blog with your favorite RSS reader… or receive them by email..

RSS Feeds by Feedburner with Email option active

Does Google look at your Website Generator?

Filed Under: Joomla, Joomla Seo, Search Engine, SEO, SEO BLogs, SEO Optimization, WordPress

No, seriously, is this one of the ways Google looks at your website?

I was looking at some of my website ranking results, as for some reason this came to mind.
I have Blogs based on WordPress, Websites based on Joomla and more recently I am running a Drupal based website.

Results from the Blog come in fast, lets say within a week or so.
For Joomla and Drupal sites it takes longer to rank for the targeted keywords, mostly weeks and some months.

But the Blog results are dropping as fast as they come up, in a few weeks they are dropping of page one and decline over time.
The CMS results stay pretty much on the same position were they rank over time.

Now Steve of Alledia does a test with WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and he was trying to figure out what was causing WordPress to start so well, but runs into trouble later on.
It could of course be due to the explanation of SeoRefugee in his Post Google Irregular Content Upgrade

Which would explain the burst in Search Engine referral visitors after adding content to this Blog.

But how does Google determine what is a Blog and what is an “regular” Content website?
Is it the timely updates, or is there more?

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Two Must Have WordPress SEO Plugins

Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engine, SEO, SEO BLogs, SEO Optimization, WordPress

I know, its off topic :-(

But many of you are probably Blogging with WordPress, and Hopefully with Joomla as well.
And I found two major WordPress Plugins that in my opinion ar just “Must Haves” for your Blog Search Engine Optimization.

All in One SEO Pack

This new Plugin is a replacement of “Another Metatag WordPress Plugin” but has some real nice features.

First it gives you the ability to have your titels like “Postname – Blogname” without having to change your Template setting.
Second The Categories you assign your post to are made into tag for your Metatag Keywords.
The Description Metatag is taken from your Excerpt, it can even create one for you from the post itself, although I don't recommend this, you really should make the effort of writing your own.

The Categorie pages are set to “noindex,follow” to prevent duplicate content.

Another nice thing is that you have the option to Set the Metatags Description and Keywords of your Homepage a well…
Other options are to use the Categories for Keywords Metatags, and set extra keywords per post, You can also choose if you want the Titles to be changed by All-in-One-SEO-Pack (Download Link), or have them handled separately.
This last option works best for my, since I also have the other Plugin I wanted to tell you about.

The SEO Title Tag Plugin

This one is a real killer… if you have read the SEOmoz Search Ranking Factors you know that having you keywords in the Title Tag is a number one Item.

But you don't want to have long Post Slugs for your Permalinks, nor do you want Long Titles for your posts page.
This SEO Title Tag Plugin  gives you the option of rewriting the Post Titles, as well as the Page titles you might have.
Installation is really easy if you follow the simple instructions on the homepage of the Plugin.

One thing you should be aware off, is that the management of the Titles are not at the options page of the Plugin, but on the really obvious place “Manage”, there is a extra function “SEO Title Tag” from which you can choose to manage your page titles or you post titles (in bulk)

The SEO Title Tag Plugin for WordPress

Having these two Plugins combined gives you full power and control over some great Search Engine Optimization for your WordPress Blog

So make sure you have them active, write your Titles the right one, use your tags and write great excerpts..

But most off all, write good copy for your visitors…
I hope this one works for you, although is not about Joomla :-)  

The Real Reason not to be afraid for URL rewriting on an existing site

Filed Under: Joomla, Joomla Seo, Optimization, Search Engine, SEO, SEO BLogs, SEO Optimization

Carsten Cumbrowski wrote an interesting article on Remapping URLs with data from some recent studies on the subject by real life websites.

Read the article and see why a Good SEF Component for your Joomla based website is "must have!"

And with the majority of these components the old URLs are picked up and redirected to the right page without any effort on your site.

Think about it…. changing your Joomla website to get better rankings without loosing the old links, doesn't that sound like a win-win situation!

You already know my favorite to do this sh404SEF

Yes, I joined Bumpzee and You?

Filed Under: Search Engine, SEO, SEO BLogs, SEO Optimization

What is this? A Bloglog imitation? Or a new opportunity to meet your pears?

Check it for yourself and read about Bumpzee create an account for Free and Submit your Blog..
And No, its not an Imitation of Bloglog!

One of the different things is that your Blog is reviewed before you get into the Affiliate or the SEO/SEM section (My Choice).

And if you take a look at the Members of Bumpzee, I must say, there are some BIG names in SEO already there :-)

But I past the test, placed the Widget and have to do some other stuff to make you able to “Bumpzee” my posts…..

But for now.. are you Joining? Will I see you avatar in the Widget?

Join this Special Internet Marketing Community and read about the benefits on www.bumpzee.com 

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