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WordPress Forces 302 Redirect

by Scott | Dec 9, 2009 | SEO, Wordpress

I love WordPress, I really do, but i just screwed up a site by changing a bunch of permalinks to 302’s. Worse, WP won’t allow me to change it back without digging into the database, so I effectively rendered my child page permalinks (URLs) useless. In this...

Link Wheels | Authority Hubs

by Scott | Oct 13, 2009 | Link Building, Outsourcing, Productivity, SEO

AS OF MID 2011 THIS IS OUTDATED AND DANGEROUS – DO NOT DO IT! Simply put, a Link Wheel is a group of pages on different hosts, that are about a specific product, subject or service, which all link to each other, and also link to a particular URL, or “money...

SEO Review on an Iphone

by Scott | Sep 18, 2009 | Cell Phones & PDA's, SEO, Software

This week marks our release of the SEO Review Iphone version of SEO Automatic, and it provided unlimited access to run as many urls as you wish. If you’ve never used my instant SEO review before, then you should probably check that out first. It gives you a...

Local Search Ranking Nuggets

by Scott | Sep 9, 2009 | Google, Local - Places - Maps, SEO

Last night my kids had football practice, and I had an 8pm commitment too, but I wanted to attend last nights monthly SEMpdx event, which was David Mihm’s presentation on local search. Recently, I’ve found myself working with some very small local...

Asking Google For Reinclusion

by Scott | Aug 25, 2009 | Google, SEO

While browsing through the stats of some (very poorly maintained) sites of our own, I found one that had zero traffic for quite a few weeks. Visiting the site, I saw no site, and just a “Cannot connect to database” error. A glance at the toolbar showed me...

WordPress 2.82 May Hurt Rankings

by Scott | Jul 31, 2009 | Search Engines, SEO, Web Hosting, Wordpress

I’ll bet you $1000 that if we took an existing and well established default site installation today, and first upgraded it to WP 2.82, then we set WP up correctly with our chosen SEO plug-ins, correct permalinks, etc. that we would LOSE rankings in the search...