SEO WordPress

WordPress SEO Comments and rel=nofollow article updated March 2014. Google no longer honors the nofollow tag! Instead of protecting the PR/link benefit it used to conserve for non nofollow links, it now DELETES the PR/link benefit! Stupid move by Google as it again forces webmasters to look for alternatives to nofollow to protect PR/link benefit like using javascript when linking to sites we do not wish to promote! My SEO advice is do not use rel=”nofollow” on any website if you care about search engine optimization. To get around this WordPress SEO issue I created a SEO WordPress Theme that instead of using normal links to link to comment authors URLs it uses form button links (Google ignores them, no […]

WordPress Hacks and Tricks How to Remove WordPress Admin Bar I never use the WP Admin Bar and have this code as part of my WordPress themes. If your theme doesn’t already have the option to disable the WordPress Admin Bar add this code to your functions.php file. <?php add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); ?> How to Add Custom Content to WordPress Login Page Want to display a customized message as you login to WordPress, add the following code to your functions.php file. <?php function str_custom_login( $message ) { if ( empty($message) ){ return '<p class="message">Totally Rad Message Here…</p>'; } else { return $message; } } add_filter( 'login_message', 'str_custom_login' ); ?> Cleaning up the wp_head() Output In my Stallion SEO WordPress and Stallion […]

I’ve been developing WordPress SEO themes for so long that the vast majority of SEO features I use are built into the Stallion Responsive theme (best WordPress SEO theme available) because so few WordPress plugin developers get the SEO spot on. Basically I find an interesting plugin or code hack and adapt it to exactly what I want and add it to my SEO theme, been working this way for over half a decade so my SEO theme includes a lot of SEO features from various plugins and code snippets I’ve found over the years. Occasionally I stumble on a WordPress plugin that’s either perfect SEO wise and so requires no modification and/or is so well supported by the plugin […]

Looking for WordPress SEO Tips and Tricks, read the basic WordPress SEO Tutorial for Beginners below. WordPress SEO Tip 1 Name your Blog Posts and Static Pages with SEO in mind. If you create a post about “How to Save Money on Groceries” you should title the post something like “How to Save Money on Groceries” not “Had a Good Idea Today”. Might sound obvious, but many WordPress bloggers title their posts in an anti-SEO way by being too general like the “Had a Good Idea Today” title. By naming your posts with SEO in mind the posts title tag will have your keywords, the posts slug (the URL to the post) will use the post title. In our example […]

WordPress SEO Tutorial updated September 2016 I wrote a general SEO article on choosing the correct domain name and naming a website at Domain Name Optimization that’s still fully relevant today and well worth a read. The above SEO article goes into a lot of detail about choosing the right domain name (hyphenated domains etc…) and name of a site for the best SERPs. I’m not going to cover domain name choice here or repeat the entire article, so please read the above article if you want more details. The Stallion Responsive theme for sale on this site is search engine optimized so the name of a WordPress blog is much less of an SEO issue than for a standard […]

The Stallion All In One SEO Plugin is a built in plugin with the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme 7.1. The Stallion All In One SEO Plugin code was replaced with my own code for Stallion Responsive SEO Package, so the information below is mostly for Stallion WordPress SEO Theme V7.1 users. All the features discussed below (and new ones) are built into Stallion Responsive V8, but in a different way (redesigned the code from scratch, so didn’t have to use the All In One SEO Pack Plugin code: my new code is cleaner). The Stallion All In One SEO Plugin is built into the Stallion SEO Theme version 7.1+ and is a derivative of the very popular WordPress All In […]