SEO WordPress

Go to the Display Widgets Plus WordPress Plugin Page for the most recent update. I was unfairly moderated on the WordPress support forum, so I removed all my plugins (including the Display Widgets WordPress SEO Plus Plugin) from the free WordPress plugin repository and have no plans to ever add another plugin to the repository! I’m afraid some of the people working for WordPress are more concerned with petty issues like adding moderator notes to forum users posts because they end comments with their name**, rather than actually helping to secure WordPress from hackers with malicious intent! ** Believe it or not many of my recent WordPress support forum posts have been edited by moderators (with a moderator note suggesting […]

The Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Theme is the best All In One SEO package for WP blogs and WP powered websites. Stallion is much more than a WordPress theme, the WP SEO package protects your hard earned off-site SEO using advanced on-site SEO techniques like no other WordPress SEO solution. WordPress On-Page SEO There are two elements to search engine optimization, on-page or on-site SEO and off-site SEO or off-page SEO. On-page or on-site search engine optimization: What we do on our websites, we have full control over this aspect of search engine optimization and Stallion includes dozens of SEO features to increase search engine traffic. Off-site or off-page SEO search engine optimization: Any off-site promotion that has an SEO […]

I wrote an SEO Tutorial some years ago (before using WP), the older search engine optimization tutorial is still very relevant, but like the rest of the world I moved on and now use WordPress as an SEO CMS. Hence this free WordPress SEO guide. WordPress SEO WordPress out the box (vanilla WordPress with no WordPress SEO plugins or WordPress SEO theme) is pretty good from an SEO perspective, WordPress is a really good base SEO CMS for building optimized websites. However, it is far from search engine optimized and it’s very easy to make on-page SEO mistakes within WordPress especially when using popular WordPress SEO plugins like Yoast WordPress SEO and All In One SEO Pack. All the popular […]

In the Stallion Responsive theme version 8.5 update (still working on the update) there’s a new feature to add custom hreflang tags code on: A Post by Post basis A Page by Page basis A Category by Category basis A Tag by Tag basis On the Post/Page/Category/Tag edit screen there’s a simple form for adding entire hreflang tag code sets. If you are familiar with the hreflang tags you’ll know you have to add them in sets. If there’s three language sections, each Post in that section will need identical hreflang tags code. Example HREFlang Tags Code For example if on this website I had three languages (EN GB, EN US and DE DE) and this Post: Languagenut Review was […]

In the Stallion Responsive Theme I develop there’s a built in Gravatar caching feature. It’s a WordPress SEO performance feature, makes a WordPress site run faster because the Avatars (images) are cached locally: they are downloaded from Gravatar.com and saved on the sites server. Why Cache WordPress Gravatars Locally? By storing the avatar images locally it means we can optimize the Gravatar images (I use EWWW Image Optimizer plugin to make them smaller), Can also set their expiration dates to more than Gravatar.com does: Gravatar.com sets them to just 5 mins which is no where near long enough. Having Gravatars set to expire at 5 mins throws up loads of Leverage Browser Caching warnings on WordPress Posts with comments when […]

If you are a user of the Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Theme do NOT install the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin discussed below. Stallion Responsive includes a far more SEO advanced version of the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin that’s fully integrated with other theme package features (for example comment titles). See the Stallion Responsive SEO Super Comments Tutorial for more details. For all other WordPress theme users the WordPress SEO Comments Plugin below gives Google and other search engines access to your comments in a format that allows search engine spiders to index and rank comments in their own right. Download WordPress SEO Comments Plugin from WordPress.org plugin repository. February 5th 2016 Update v2.2 Release: Fixed a couple of bugs. Had […]