SEO

Remove SEO columns from the posts admin table

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

I love Joost de Valk's WordPress SEO plugin, but I hate those damn columns in the posts admin table. That's precious horizontal space, and I don't really care most of the time about the color of my SEO dot or…

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

Robert Neu

August 2, 2013

Business

I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

A reminder of the many features of Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 19, 2013

WordPress News

Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin recently got a bad rap on another blog. In the end, the problem wasn't with the plugin, but with the fact that a person can't provide support for free forever. I also think the problem is…

Yoast’s WordPress SEO to offer commercial support and bonus features

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk announced that his insanely popular WordPress SEO plugin is soon going to have commercial support options. He's going to charge $89 / year for a single site, or $349 / year for unlimited sites for support. I've…

Lessons for plugin developers from Joost de Valk

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk published to his blog this morning about a mistake he made with an update to his WordPress SEO plugin. He used a feature in PHP that isn't supported in PHP 5.2, and therefore his plugin didn't work…

The future of SEO plugins for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk talks about what he sees as the future of SEO plugins. In short, most of them suck. Joost's and a couple others are good, but don't trust most of what you see out there.

SEO tips for shifting your site to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

If you want to upgrade your site from ASP, Joomla, Drupal, HTML etc to WordPress you can follow the following steps in order to preserve your SEO rank and traffic.

Joost de Valk releases local SEO plugin

Brian Krogsgard

March 14, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk has released a local SEO extension for his WordPress SEO plugin. This marks the second commercial extension for WordPress SEO, after the Video one released recently.

Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…

Ugh. The “advanced” guide to SEO for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

I know these kinds of tutorials are everywhere. But I saw this one tonight, on a website that (I think) is held in fairly high regard in SEO / marketing land. And I just wanted to cry reading this chapter…