WordPress is one of the world’s major and most widely used blogging package. When it comes to Search Engine Optimization it is one of the hottest platforms that you can use.

This is part of a series of tip articles just about using WordPress for maximizing on Search Engine Optimisation.

Tip: Make sure the blog is on YOUR site

We are often asked

If you are using your blog to enhance your SEO then you HAVE to place your blog on your web site – it cannot live on on a another domain.

Do not even think about using a sub-web such as http://www.blog.myhappysite.com. Why would you use a sub web anyhow unless if you want a cool blog URL.

Sub webs are part of your website but they are confusing from an SEO perspective. If you want to have the blog content 100% associated with your website then make sure it is off a sub folder and NOT a sub web for example : http://www.myhappysite.com/blog.

Sub webs will not gain you the same Search Engine Optimisation SEO ranking benefits across all search engines because many search engines treat sub webs as a separate website.

If your blog is currently hosted on blogger.com or wordpress.com then you should think about to move it as soon as feasible if you want to enhance your SEO position.

If you have some existing rankings for keywords on Google and Yahoo then you do need to be warned – adding a lot of new content may affect your ranking negativily at first.

We have experienced client ranking drop after adding a lot of new content in the form of a blog to a clients sites. Adding a blast of new content ‘dilutes’ your current site content if the new content is NOT Search Engine Optimisation optimized for the keywords that you want to rank for. Search Engine Optimize the content before making it live to avoid this dilution effect. Taking the time to do this BEFORE you add it to your site will make a big difference to your existing ranking position.

Learn more about the available SEO Singapore and SEO Trainings.

• StatusNet | Open Source microblogging service

  Tags: microblogging, status, laconica, opensource

• Twilk – put your friends’ faces on your Twitter background

  Tags: twitter, twilk, twitterapp

• Poynter Online – Writing Tools

  Tags: writing, twitter, microblogging

• The Twitter Times

  Real-time presonalized newspaper generated from your twitter account. Does require that you give up credentials.

  Tags: twitter, twitter applications, twitter aps, utilities

  • – By A. T. Wyatt

• Twaxed.com : Hottest Tweets

  Funny tweets … not always clean and appropriate.

  Tags: no_tag

  • – By Amy Kelly-Graham

• Tweet Wave

  Tags: twitter, advertising

• Everything you ever wanted to know about Twitter

  LA liste des applications dédiées à Twitter

  Tags: twitter, twittertools, outils, aaaliens

  • – By recriweb prinkipo

• Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave

  Tags: diigo

• eduVoyage: Ruby on Rails Development

  Tags: twitter, twitterqpp

• Ping – Hiring Tweeters and Bloggers to Send Ads – NYTimes.com

  Story about advertising services using “influencers” to recommend products or services to friends for a fee. Twitter based.

  Tags: twitter, marketing, corporate, advertising, csc3315, drawbacks, socialmedia

  • – By A. T. Wyatt

• How I Got ~300 Twitter Followers Without Mass Following Others | Knowledge Reactor’s Blog

  Quality vs. Quantity of your twitter following.

  Tags: Twitter, Followers

  • – By Ileane Smith
  • If you maintain a high following to being followed ratio, it will make your account look
  • popular and more people might decide to join in!
  • What this means is, follow people you are actually interested in, ignoring your followers count
  • That’s why I’d like to leave this in the air and let you comment why you guys think it’s good or bad to follow a lot of people and how do you manage to find the perfect tweets in your overpopulated twitter stream

• Why Twitter | whytwitter

  All you need to know about Twitter Spam, Twitter News, Twitter Information, TwitterFilter, Social Marketing, Google Wave

  Tags: no_tag

  • – By RalphEhlers

  • Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave

    November 22, 2009 | In: Google Wave, The Latest Tweat

    Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You’re not alone.

    To clear up the confusion,  you are invited to the recently published Google…

• The Clever Sheep: Twitter Bingo

  Twitter bingo card showing what educators can do with Twitter.

  Tags: twitter

  • – By Ann Oro

• Why Google Wave is NOT Changing the News

  Why Google Wave is NOT Changing the News

  Tags: diigo, news, guide, google, wave

  • – By RalphEhlers

• Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Tags: twitter, teaching, education, highered

  • Instructors in the classroom really have to teach toward their personalities

• Google Wave becomes a Google Tsunami

  Google Wave becomes a Google Tsunami – Watch the video now

  Tags: google, wave, tsunami, whytwitter, why, twitter

  • – By RalphEhlers

• Twitter.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  Tags: twitter, resource, backchannel, professionaldevelopment, pd

• Ultimate List of Twitter Icons for Web Designers- WebAnthology.net

  Free Twitter Icons

  Tags: Twitter, Icons

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Twitter Lists

  Tags: twitter, lists, twitter lists, how-to

• Confirmed! Google Wave = Google Tsunami!

  Confirmed! Google Wave = Google Tsunami!

  Tags: diigo

  • – By RalphEhlers

• Theme Playground | Tweem: I’m in your WordPress, making it Twitter

  WordPress theme that creates a twitter microsite on your own domain.

  Tags: theme, wordpress, tweem, twitter

  • – By Rick Powell

• Stephen Fry attacks ‘malevolent’ comments following Twitter spat | Media | guardian.co.uk

  “Stephen Fry, technophile and a “twillionaire” having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him to commit “twitticide” last month and consider leaving the micro-blogging service.”

  Tags: twitter, Stephen Fry

  • – By Rick Powell

• Why Google Wave is Dangerous

  Why Google Wave is Dangerous

  Tags: *googlewave*, *google, wave*, tsunami*, whytwitter

  • – By RalphEhlers

• We Skip Because We Can : Find and Convert Blog: Inbound Marketing Strategies

  Skip1.org is a non-profit with a simple idea. Skip doing just one thing for a day…a coffee, a car wash, a pack of gum and give the money you would have spent on that small luxury to help fight world hunger. Skip1 doesn’t have splashy billboards, ads, commercials or any of the traditional trappings of branding campaigns. Skip1.org uses social media to spread their message by engaging people and building relationships. @Skip1 is on Twitter. Skip1dotorg is on YouTube. Skip1.org has a fan page on Facebook, an active blog, and numerous page 1 Google rankings of its web pages and of blog posts by everyday folks to celebrities about the charity’s good works.

  Tags: diigo, “Skip1, org”, “social, media”, “pass, along”, “good, works”, “socially, oriented”, skip1, “marketing, strategies”, thanksgiving

  • – By B Ginther

• Twitter Follow Buttons For Your Blogs, Websites, and Online Profiles

  Tags: twitter, tools

• Destiny Islands / Your #1 Kingdom Hearts Community

  The best Kingdom Hearts social networking site

  Tags: kingdom, hearts, gaming, social, networking, web, 2.0, birth, by, sleep, chain, of, memories

  • – By Jake Rocheleau

• How to use Facebook in Google Wave?

  How to use Facebook in Google Wave?

  Watch the video here at http://www.whytwitter.co.uk

  Tags: googlewave, google, wave, facebook, video

  • – By RalphEhlers

• How The New Retweet Feature Changes Marketing On Twitter

  Tags: twitter, retweet

• How do I add Twitter to Google Wave? Easy!

  How do I add Twitter to Google Wave? Easy!

  Tags: googlewave, google, twitter, do, how, i

  • – By RalphEhlers

• Google Wave Gives New Life to Pointless

  Google Wave Gives New Life to Pointless

  Tags: googlewave, google, wave, twitter

  • – By RalphEhlers

• Google’s real motivations behind Chrome OS

  Google’s real motivations behind Chrome OS

  Tags: google, chrome, os, whytwitter

  • – By RalphEhlers

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• Twitter / Over capacity

  Tags: no_tag

  • 
    • – By Anders Sporring

• tweetworks | about

  Tags: twitter, resources, PLN, socialnetworking

• Twitter4Classes

  Tags: twitter, education, twitter4classes, socialnetworking, socialmedia

  • Please add yourself to the list under the correct age level if you use Twitter with your students including a link to your Twitter page so others may follow you! Thanks!
    

• Flickr Photo Download: Preview: The Twitterverse v1.0 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3

  Tags: briansolis, jess3, twitterverse

  • – By Michael Marlatt

• Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Teachers Take to Twitter

  Tags: twitter, PLN, teaching, training, ideas

• Do Twitter Backgrounds Attract New Followers? « Ms. Ileane Speaks

  Tips for making twitter backgrounds, featuring samples from The Ellen Show, Mashable, Whitehouse and Kanye.

  Tags: Twitter, Twitter Backgrounds, Social, Networking, Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Brizzly

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Twitter meets Buzzom « Ms. Ileane Speaks

  Ms. Ileane Speaks shares 2 screencasts to introduce the newest tool to help manage your Twitter following called Buzzom.

  Tags: Twitter, Buzzon, Screencast, Social, Media, Followers, Retweet, YouTube, Video, Profile

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Ms. Ileane’s Blog: Tweet Smarter With Retweet Links

  TweetSmarter generates a RT url to a tweet in Twitter

  Tags: Twitter, Retweet

  • – By Ileane Smith

• 10 tools for presenting with Twitter : Speaking about Presenting

  Tags: twitter, presentations, twittertools

• MakeUseOf.com – The Complete Guide to Twitter

  In over forty pages Makeuseof publishing editor Mark O’Neill, tackles every Twitter feature, tip and trick you can think of. Learn to work the interface, to Tweet from your desktop, cool Twitter bots and funniest people to follow. With this free manual, Mark will make sure you get your black belt in Twitter.

  Tags: twitter, makeuseof, guide, Tutorials

  • – By Maggie Verster

• How I Got 1000 TARGETED Twitter Followers In 30 Days | Beginner Blogger

  How to get 1000 Targeted twitter followers in 30 days. See how Beginner Blogger did it.

  Tags: Twitter, Buzzom, BeginnerBlogger, WordPress.com, @ileane

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Link by Link – In Trafigura Case, The Guardian and Twitter Untie Gag Order – NYTimes.com

  Tags: socialmedia, culture, socialnetworking, trends, twitter

• 20 Hilarious Twitter Comic Strips

  Tags: twitter, cartoons

• Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine

  Tags: twitter, microblogging, socialmedia

• Twitter: The Swiss-Army Knife of Social Media – download image from Flickr

  Tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, apps, twitter, swiss-army-knife

  • – By Michael Marlatt

• Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less

  Tags: twitter

• Twinester – Create or join groups and communities for Twitter.

  Tags: twitter, nests

• No Friends of Facebook’s, in a Generation That Is – washingtonpost.com

  Tags: culture, future, trends, socialnetworking

• Authors experiment with Twitterfiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

  Tags: twitter, fiction, Neil Gaiman, Melvin Burgess

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• Twitter | Advanced Search + Operators

  http://search.twitter.com/advanced AND http://search.twitter.com/operators.

  Tags: twitter, search, twittersearch, advanced, operators, searchsyntax, syntax, in:problogger, in:twitip

  • – By Aviva Gabriel

• TwitBlogger | Blog Your Tweets

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, blogging, tools, apps

• twitTangle | untangling your messy timeline

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, tools, apps

• TweetCall – Twitter by Voice

  Tags: tweetcall, twitter

  • Speak your Tweets

• 30 Twitter Tips for Teachers « So You Want To Teach?

  Tags: twitter, twittertips

• Three Twitter Searches You Didn’t Think Were Possible

  Tags: in:twitip, in:problogger, twitter, search, searches, tips, howto

• Twaxed.com : Beware What You Share

  Tags: twitter, comedy

• 100 Twitter Feeds To Make You a Better Teacher – Online Courses

  Tags: twitter, usmepc512, readwriteweb2010

• ethnomusicaviva! ::: world music videos ::: avivagabriel

  Music of many genres, from many regions of the world. Musicians of many sensibilities. A collection that needs sorting, labeling, and finetuning…but has some intoxicating musical discoveries…worth the effort!

  Tags: music videos, world music videos, world music, worldmusic, musicvideos, avivagabriel, avivamagnolia, multikulti, multicultural, multi-genre, music, videos

  • – By Aviva Gabriel

• UK High Court serves injunction over Twitter | Computerworld

  An injunction has been taken out against a Twitter user in the UK for impersonating a right-wing blogger.

  Tags: twitter, injunction, uk, impersonation, news

  • – By Andrew Long

• How to Use Google Reader as a Twitter Search Engine

  Tags: google, googlereader, twitter, search, searchengine, searchengines, RSS, tweets, howto, tips

• Twitglry a Twitter Tool and App Gallery

  Twitglry is a Twitter Directory cum Gallery showcasing the best and latest twitter tools, twitter applications and other twitter related goodies.

  Tags: twitglry, twitter, twitter directory, twitter app, twitter tool, showcase, gallery

  • – By tobrother d

• Twitglry – Twitter Tools and Apps Gallery

  Small listing. EverythingTwitter.com is the largest review site of Twitter tools and apps

  Tags: twitglry, twitter

  • – By Ido Notes
  • – By Ido Notes

• Follow Friday Listmaker | TweepML | Keep ‘em outta yr stream!

  Tags: twitter, #ff, #followfriday, listmaker, lists, apps, twitterapps, tools

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• Twitter Apps

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, apps

• My Tweeple

  Easily see who you’re following and who’s following you. Follow, unfollow, or block–easily.

  Tags: twitter, tools, followers, following, apps, twitterapps, follow

  • Easily see who you’re following and who’s following you. Follow, unfollow, or block–easily. – By Aviva Gabriel

• 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter | Copyblogger

  Tags: twitter, viral, howto, tips, advice

• Twitblocker

  Are you being overwhelmed by twitter friends who can’t stop talking, but they’re like… still your friends? Install this greasmonkey script, then double clicking the chattering peeps will temporarily remove their tweets from your timeline. Restart your browser to get them back. Simple eh?

  Tags: twitter, tools, followers, following, apps, twitterapps, follow

  • Are you being overwhelmed by twitter friends who can’t stop talking, but they’re like… still your friends? Install this greasmonkey script, then double clicking the chattering peeps will temporarily remove their tweets from your timeline. Restart your browser to get them back. Simple eh? – By Aviva Gabriel

• Twitter Fan Wiki / FrontPage

  Tags: twitter, wiki, web2.0, apps, twitterapps, twittertools, tools, resources, wikis, fans, twitterfreaks, socialnetworking

• Ten reasons why Twitter will eventually wither and die… « e-Learning Stuff

  Tags: twitter, posttwitter, blog

• TrueTwit | Validate Followers …Before a Bot or Spammer Plagues You!

  TrueTwit is a validation service for Twitter. It distinguishes between people and bots, helps prevent spam, and SAVES YOU TIME in MANAGING (BLOCKING) BAD FOLLOWERS!

  Tags: twitter, block, spam, anti-spam, validation, followers, bots, robots, spammers

• 25 Twitter Projects for the College Classroom | Online Colleges

  Tags: Twitter, web2.0, Classroom, Education

• Analyzing Influence on Twitter | Social Network Analysis + Quantized Social Interaction | Web Ecology Project

  Tags: twitter, socialmedia, web2.0, SNA, social-network-analysis

• 10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore

  Tags: twitter

• How Twitter saved my career… and my life

  Tags: unemployment, employment, work, jobs, career, careers, twitter, socialmedia

• FolExt | share photos on Twitter

  Tags: twitter, photos

• 101 Ways to Use Twitter on Campus | Online Colleges

  Tags: twitter, pedagogy

• Last update: 09/15/09

  Tags: Twitter, teachers

• #Edchat – the new Teacher Movement on Twitter | Kirsten Winkler

  Tags: edchat, twitter, social_networking

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