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SEO WordPress Tip: Using Semantic Combinations In Tags

It may seem like an unimportant addendum, but using WordPress tags in a clever way can boost your site’s ranking and actually give it other avenues to draw traffic from.  I often times uses different combination of similar words in my tags.  This is important because every time there is a new tag, your site gains a new page.  This page is semantically related to your post or posts, bolstering… Read the rest

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Using Page Segmentation

Last post I spoke about Page Segmentation.  Without recapping, one of the techniques I have found most successful is the placement of internal links in the main content body in the form of lists.  This will give  a solid boost to your site allowing individual deep pages to gain needed link and PR juice.

One site that does this quite well is How Stuff Works.

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Page Segmentation

I originally read about page segmentation at David Harry’s blog Huomah over a year ago.  Since then much of the theory surrounding it has seem to surface one where or the other.  I wrote a few weeks ago (which is really replay of a post a wrote last year) on blog rolls being dead.  Its clear that Google is factoring the sidebar area as extremely weak.  Why is… Read the rest

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Keyword Amounts and On-Page SEO

Traditionally on-page SEO consisted of what has been termed as “keyword stuffing.”  This is where content writers pack a ridiculous amount of keywords into their writing. Now a days Google and other search engines see through this sort of business fairly quickly, yet there is still an importance in using your targeted keyword in your content.

Although there are no hard fast rules in terms of keyword density, the accepted… Read the rest

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