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SEO and Sidebar Widget Links on Stallion Theme
Hi Dave,
I have just been thinking about the sitewide links I am displaying on my Stallion theme sidebars. I wonder if you had any thoughts on an optimum combination of sidebar widgets for SEO purposes.
I feel like I’ve been featuring some extraneous links that aren’t really helping me in the big picture. I looked through some of your sites, and it seems you use different combinations of sidebar widgets on different sites.
Here is my sidebar widget breakdown and how I see things:
Recent Comments— I am a big believer in this one, my site gets 20-50 comments/day and I think this helps keep people aware and involved and coming back to the site. So I’ve always used it. I have even got it high enough to where it is partially visible above the fold.
Recent Articles— I use this one as well, as I think there is benefit from the dynamic content aspect? (I post 5+ times/week). However I have wondered if having 12 sitewide links to recent posts doesn’t dilute too much link benefit on other, more keyword-focused pages.
Most Commented Posts— I like this widget because it “proves” you have a popular site if you have a lot of 100-200 comment posts. However I don’t necessarily want sitewide link benefit flowing to these particular top-commented posts because they’re not especially important to me, or even that well optimized to begin with. I have even had this set to feature 15+ posts, but have whittled it closer to 10 now. Having a lot of posts in this widget also takes up a good bit of sidebar real estate. Maybe cutting it closer to 5-6 would be better, mainly to get the “popularity proof” benefit and not much else?
Categories— I’ve been using the Categories widget (I have 8 categories) but I’m not really convinced the ones I’ve chosen are great keywords. They don’t get a lot of search traffic, however they are good for navigation, as they are low exit %. At the same time, they aren’t getting a lot of views on the whole.
Tag Cloud— I’ve been using the tag cloud, but after analysing it, I deleted it this morning. It was featuring 18 tag links, which really weren’t great in terms of traffic (only 2 of the tag pages featured were in my top 20 tag pages traffic-wise). I also don’t think the Tag Cloud was getting used much in terms of navigating (at least not from the sidebar position; there is more evidence people navigate by tag pages via the tag on the actual post though). Also, since the widget selects top tags based on how many times you’ve used a given tag, there is not a lot of control over which ones you want to feature. All these factors led me to believe the Tag Cloud wasn’t really helping, so it got the axe.
If you add all of the above widget links up, they could be adding 50-60 or more sitewide links to the sidebar (depending on the settings you’re using and numbers of categories you have, of course). I am wondering if it isn’t wiser to cut these down (which I assume would result in higher concentration of link benefit over all existing posts–posts in which I have already done a lot of work inserting keyword-specific anchor text links). And if need be I could also select my own links to feature in the sidebar in place of these widget links.
Maybe that’s a no-brainer, but I am wondering if you had any thoughts on these conclusions, and in general on the best use of these sidebar widgets in terms of optimizing link benefit.
By the way, I just bought another copy of Stallion theme as a present for someone. It’s going to be used on a Polish-language site, so hopefully the Stallion magic translates into Slavic languages :)
Erik
SEO and Sidebar Widget Links on Stallion Theme
Most Commented WordPress Posts Widget
Hi, David
I am trying to display Latest 25 comments disscusion as what you wrote about but I could not do.
Please detail me. I did not see the 25 most recent comments, so how can I do it.
FOr the most commented posts as Erik mentioned, where can I find it? I checked it in the widget too but I did not see. Or I have to build another plugin.
Please help,
Thank,
Ratanak
Most Commented WordPress Posts Widget
Stallion Responsive Most Recent Comments WordPress Page Template
The Most Recent 25 Comments Page is created using a Stallion Page Template.
Create a static Page (not a post) and select the “Most Recent 25 Comments” Page Template.
Add nothing to the Pages main content form, give a title something like “Latest 25 Comment Discussions” and link to it from somewhere, I added the link on the right sidebar as a Text Widget with some styling like this:
I put this text widget underneath the Stallion Recent SEO Comments widget so it looked like it was part of the comment widget. And it looks like this Stallion Responsive Theme Recent Comments.
The most commented post widget is a plugin called the Most Popular Posts Widget free from (needs an update) I don’t use it on this site as use this site as a demo of Stallion features and Stallion plugins, use it on my other sites that have a fair number of comments.
Added a new Stallion feature today, in Stallion 6.3 the static Page templates concept will work for Posts as well, this will mean posts can have different formats like no Ads, no sidebars, all sorts of layouts etc…
David
Stallion Responsive Most Recent Comments WordPress Page Template
WordPress Widget Usage and Search Engine Optimization
Your general widget usage after removing Tags is basically my default usage links wise.
As you’ve touched on it’s a combination of making sure new content is indexed (recent articles), sharing link benefit through the site (categories) and giving extra attention to popular pages as determined by commenting (recent comments, most popular – which aren’t necessarily the most popular search engine traffic wise).
As you found Tags tend not to add much to a site traffic wise because users tend to use single keywords, I’m good at SEO but to get traffic to a single keyword Tag page like “Search” or “Google” or “SEO”… would be a MASSIVE SEO undertaking, it would take thousands of links to those Tags pages with a lot of PR/link benefit: not worth the effort, go for two plus keyword phrases,more traffic overall. Unless your Tags are really niche single keywords that doesn’t have a great deal of traffic they are highly unlikely to rank high (single keyword SERPs are HARD), this is true for any single keyword optimized page. If you Tag with multiple keyword phrases only (Tags named like “Google Search Engine Optimization”, for longer tail SERPs) they are more likely to gain traffic, but WordPress users tend to use multiple keyword phrases for Categories not Tags, so in my SEO strategy Tags are rarely used if I wanted an archive section (Tags and Categories output are pretty much identical) with a title “Google Search Engine Optimization” I’d create a Category called “Google Search Engine Optimization”. So the way most webmasters use Tags means they act as a way to pass link benefit through a site, but NOT generate search engine traffic directly and that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. I aim for multiple keyword categories that act as a way to pass link juice and have the potential to gain SERPs (can be long tail SERPs) in their own right.
Take into account I’ve done ZERO keywords research for your site, so specific advice is based on educated guesswork, with research I’d probably use different phrases.
Most of your categories aren’t very good SEO wise, of course they will pass the link benefit through the site, but the keyword usage is poor. Your “Beliefs” category should be at least “Amish Beliefs” or “Amish Religious Beliefs”, I’d assume the category currently generates little to no direct search engine traffic.
Your categories widget should look something like this:
Amish Religious Beliefs
Amish Books and Media
Amish Business Advice
Amish Communities
Amish Controversies
Amish Culture and Society
Amish History
Mennonite Groups
Change your Uncategorised cat to “Amish Something” or “Something Amish”. Do a little keyword research and find a two or three word phrase that covers what you put in that category. Don’t be concerned if all categories have the main keyword Amish within them, the site is about the Amish after all.
This will add relevant Amish keywords through out the site as anchor text which will help.
I noticed some of your articles titles are poorly optimized, it’s a common mistake. Your last post is titled “Confident horse”, that could mean anything while the post is about “American Amish Buggy Road Signs”.
A Google search for American Amish Buggy Road Signs has that post in the top 10 which gives you a good idea how Google views the posts content. Change the title and it’s likely to be number one for that long tail SERP.
My wife runs multiple sites and I had to keep reminding her about the titles she used, was going to give an example or two, but had to look through her latest 60 posts to find one from 5 months ago titled “Great Day Out” so she’s got it now: one bad title out of 60 isn’t bad. I’ll have to start calling her SEO Marie :-)
You’ll note your most commented posts have quite descriptive titles like “So you want to join the Amish”. That’s a great title for search engines and users.
Speaking of comments, remember you informed me about the Mysteryman Gravatars not working as expected, I fixed that in I think Stallion 6.1.
BTW there’s no such thing as over search engine optimized as long as the content doesn’t read like SPAM, don’t worry about keyword density, worry about how it reads. If it reads OK, it’s OK, I stop optimizing before it’s difficult to read (SEO keyword SPAM is hard to read).
Regarding the number of sitewide links this adds to a WordPress site you are right they won’t all be the best links for all posts, the anchor text of all links won’t match the SERPs the page is targeting: it’s why it’s a good idea to try to optimize every title (posts, pages, categories everything) so when content matches the anchor text helps. The perfect SEO’d page will ONLY have links from it using relevant anchor text, so if I wanted this post to rank for “WordPress Theme Designs” ideally all links would use one or more of those three keywords or similar derivatives (keywords like theme, design etc…) so links with anchor text “SEO Themes” helps this pages SERPs (uses themes), but links with anchor text “AdSense Optimization” doesn’t.
Most of your articles are Amish relevant, so if you add Amish and Amish relevant keywords to most posts, pages, categories…. titles it helps for lots of SERPs through out the site.
If we only add relevant links not only would that be a massive task to add the links manually, no way you are going to get that level of SEO in a CMS automated, but also it means guaranteeing all pages you want indexing will have a fair number of links will be an issue. Your current widget use guarantees all categories get a decent amount of link benefit which is shared over the posts within those categories. Remove the categories widget and some categories will gain a lot less link benefit and so will it’s posts.
It’s a balance between the SEO of the individual posts and spreading the link benefit through the site, no link benefit = no SERPs.
The recent articles widget is so new posts have links from all pages so when Google spiders the site there’s a very good chance it will quickly find, spider and index your newest content. For a site with lots of new content those links won’t last long, but without them you rely on Google spidering the home page or the categories the new posts are added to before you add more new posts. Since Google randomly follows links from the pages it visits if you only have two pages with links to the new posts (home and one category) there’s a good chance new posts could be missed for weeks before they are spidered. I suppose if your new posts aren’t time sensitive in anyway you could skip the recent articles widget.
The recent comments links are assuming your most recently commented posts might be popular and you want them spidered often to pick up the new comments and to pass more link benefit to them so they rank higher. I find on many sites the same posts are commented to over and over again so the links are practically permanent (good if they are high traffic from search engines, they tend to be). You want your most popular posts to be linked from more pages so they remain ranked high and go higher. A good idea is to look through your log files and Google analytics etc… to see which pages are generating most traffic and consider adding links manually, on a few sites I add links to popular posts and categories that aren’t making the widget areas into the Blogroll links list so they get a sitewide link. Always look after your highest traffic pages with more link juice :-)
What I’d like to do long term is find a way to add more customization to the widgets, as described above we need widgets like categories and recent articles sitewide, but the comment widget and the most popular posts widget (based on the comments) might be better with category wide settings. Would be good SEO wise to have those widgets to be categorized, visit category A and posts under category A and it shows commented posts under that category only. This would mean there’s a better chance the anchor text of the links will help the posts within the category (more likely to be relevant) AND the visitor might be more likely to visit a latest comment if it’s to a post in the same category (related content). On my long list of things to look at.
I note you are still using Stallion 6.0.1, you are missing some useful features. I forget when I added the Footer widget areas, I think Stallion 6.1. The five Footer widget areas are great for putting widgets you want for SEO reasons etc… but your visitors are less likely to use. This site isn’t the best example because I use it as a Stallion demo site and have added descriptions what the widgets are which take up more space (lot of extra text) also have the theme switcher links on the right menu which I only use on this site. My other WordPress SEO Themes site is a better example, you can see the footer widgets are used for the widgets I expect to be clicked less often or I want for SEO reasons (or to log in to the dashboard without having to remember the login URL :-)).
David
WordPress Widget Usage and Search Engine Optimization
WordPress Category Title Tags Optimization
Hi Dave, WOW this reply is brilliant, thanks for taking the time. You answered a number of questions and brought clarity to some issues I’d wondered about.
The categories advice is very useful, at the time I created them I felt it might be stuffing “Amish” too much so left that out of the category title. I’m wondering if I change these to your suggestions or sth similar, would it be best to leave the url the same as it was, or also change the url to reflect the new category name?
As for “Confident Horse”, point well taken. My philosophy is actually not 100% of post titles being SEO keyword focused but the occasional post like this just an off-the-cuff natural sounding title, especially since I’m posting every day (more interesting and less robotic for both readers and myself). But 80-90% of my posts I do try to write what I think are decent keyword titles (ie this week’s “Amish Maple Syrup” or “Hicksville Ohio Amish community”).
This actually brings up a related question to the one I asked above, if I were to go back and change old post titles to something more keyword-focused, whether to also change the urls as well. I realize that might break some links which creates its own issues so wondering if it’s worth it.
You’re right I’ve been needing to update to latest Stallion–I tweak the theme’s CSS some so I’ve been putting it off. Upside is I get a little bit more customized appearance, downside is updating is not as automatic for me :)
I’m not sure if this is best but I think my new approach is to have just 1 category and 1 (maximum 2) tags each. I used to use a lot of tags but realizing that is just creating another link maybe a minimal approach is better.
And very cool idea on the customized category widget, I guess your list keeps getting longer! ;)
Thanks again,
Erik
WordPress Category Title Tags Optimization
WordPress Search Engine Optimization Tips
With categories and posts changing the title doesn’t automatically change the URL, that requires manually editing the slug as well.
In a perfect SEO world you would change the category and post slugs when changing the title of a category or post, but that would require setting up 301 redirects and 301 redirects do cost a little link benefit probably equivalent to the dampening factor (15% of PR/link benefit) associated with linking. If there’s external links to the categories or posts it will cost you some link benefit long term. If there’s only internal links which will automatically change when the slug changes medium term there’s no lost link benefit.
I tend to be lazy and not change the slugs unless they are particularly poor. It’s only one of a lot of SEO factor and if you change a category slug that’s about WordPress SEO from “seo” to “wordpress-seo” the SEO benefit is shared equally over the keywords, leave it as “seo” and the one keyword receives all the SEO benefit, since SEO is a keyword it’s not a loss per se, just means SEO gets all the benefit from that part of the URL. If the category was originally called Stuff and the slug was “stuff” this has no SEO value for the SERPs related to WordPress SEO so there’s more reason to consider changing the slug.
Categories and tags are pretty much identical output wise so I see them as the same thing. Try to avoid adding posts to the same categories/tags every time as it can generate duplicate content issues. If you have ten posts and Search Engine Optimization and add them all to three tags called Search, Engine and Optimization those three tags will have identical content other than the title element, Google will pretty much consider them duplicate. I tend to go for each post goes in one category, in the example above a single category called Search Engine Optimization would have been a better choice. If you have a lot of posts and can create unique categories/tags that have different posts within them by adding posts to more than one category/tag there’s no harm in this as long as all the categories/tags have a chance of generating traffic in their own right. Three tags called Search, Engine and Optimization are targeting HARD single keyword SERPs, no way a tags going to rank well for those single keywords so it would be a waste of link benefit. A category called Search Engine Optimization is also unlikely to rank high for that SERP, that’s competitive as well.
If you can afford to spend the link benefit on indexing pages that are not going to generate traffic in their own right, but will add relevant links to your posts it can make sense to have categories like Search Engine Optimization so they support posts and the home page that have related SERPs to Search Engine Optimization.
David
WordPress Search Engine Optimization Tips
WordPress SEO Blog Organizational Structure
Dave thanks again for this most clarifying series of posts. I have done a little research and made most of the changes to sidebar and tags, categories, etc (just have to think of a new name for “uncategorized”, which may be the hardest part ;) ).
I guess it will take a little while to take effect but the important thing is that things seem more streamlined and focused now. Most importantly this exchange has made me think a little harder about what I am doing with my sidebars and my organizational structure. Thanks again.
WordPress SEO Blog Organizational Structure
Links with Varied Anchor Text for WordPress Widgets and Categories
Agreed. I enjoy replying to comments and it generates a lot of traffic for me if well written, and even if not, on long-term keywords, with the use of your theme.
It is almost like a socratic form of content generation where the questions and probing by visitors pulls out a deeper level of ideas I would not have seen with my own internal dialogue.
Maybe this is too SEOy but would have a category widget that rotates page links or has a list of alink (remember that old plugin) type keywords it could randomly choose anchor text, so all anchor text is not the same?
So if you have 20 categories. The widget would display 3 categories for each page and it would rotate the 3 chosen for different pages, with your home page displaying all. This way the pages are unique and but PR or google juice is spread out.
The anchor text or category titles could be based an a keyword list. So if your category was ‘WordPress SEO theme settings’ You could input (WP SEO setup, WordPress search engine optimization tutorial, WP set up for Stallion to optimize ranking) Or something like that. If there is different anchor text maybe it would help.
Why am I thinking this way?
Some, but not all my sites have decreased in traffic with each google algorithm update. I am trying to look at why this might be so and a common denominator many people say is simple too template looking. I personally think the onsite factors are pretty good. They can be improved but has more to do with how Google treats links.
I think, Sergey Brin said before these updates something to the effect he wanted to get back to the way google started ranking quality sites (for me that translates to links (votes)) and Matt Cutts in a recent video said links are still before social factors, maybe way in the future it will change, So I am thinking links but the way google sees links. Varried anchor text with a natural feel might help.
Links with Varied Anchor Text for WordPress Widgets and Categories
How to SEO Anchor Text in a WordPress SEO Theme
Your last line “So I am thinking links but the way Google sees links. Varied anchor text with a natural feel might help.” pretty much sums up what I’m aiming for with my sites which means changing Stallion so more and more internal links are varied: easy if you don’t mind a LOT of manual work**, hard to semi-automate which is what I’m aiming for.
** Already possible with current Stallion features and manually creating widgets to replace categories etc… and use the show.hide widgets on sets of pages feature. But doing it manually isn’t any fun :-)
On your categories idea you’ve touched on a slightly SEO greyhat technique I’ve considered, but it’s a bit too risky sitewide and definitely too much for a WordPress SEO Theme others are using (OK for me if I was willing to take the risk, but not adding it to a theme).
Let me explain. Whatever you do to/for your site always ask yourself could I explain what I’ve done to a reasonable person (a Google manual reviewer) and convince them I’m not gaming Google?
Look at the Stallion All In One SEO Keyphrases etc… that replaces the posts title being repeated over and over again on an SEO’d theme. how Stallion used to be (and is by default) repeats the post title all over the template, this clearly indicates to Google the title of a post is very important, please use for ranking purposes and it’s not caused issues on quality content sites (nothing wrong with this SEO wise).
If you use the All In One SEO Keyphrases many of the instances of the post title are replaced by what if you use the keyphrases correctly will be related SERPs to the post title. Generally you wouldn’t have a post called “Anchor Text SEO Optimization” and name one of the Stallion All In One SEO keyphrases “Disney Porn”, you might go with “SEO of Anchor Text”, “Anchor Text SEO”, “How to SEO Anchor Text” which are likely to be phrases/keywords also used in the content of the article.
I’d have no problem explaining to a reasonable person why I’d want to use those phrases this way. I can argue by mixing up the anchor text of different links etc… visitors might see something they are interested in via one of the phrases, but not in another, maybe “How to SEO Anchor Text” in a section of the article they are looking for, but just reading “Anchor Text SEO Optimization” for all the links isn’t enough to peak their interest. Even Google search doe this now, if the algorithm thinks a header is a better title it will be shown on SERPs. Also if I were manually creating these links etc… rather than having Stallion generate them I wouldn’t naturally use the exact same text every time, so I’m trying to mimic how I’d naturally link to my content if every page was a single HTML page not trying to game Google.
Now add randomness to the equation, why not randomly select the All In One SEO Keyphrases on each page load and why not increase the number of keyphrases to 20 or 30, so every time a user (including searching engine spider) visits a page it’s changed, not for their benefit, but to randomly change the anchor text so Google doesn’t always see the same anchor text. Try explaining this to a reasonable manual Google reviewer :-)
Could you explain why the categories linked to change on each page load and the anchor text of the categories change as well? That’s why I wouldn’t do this, too SEO risky. In reality there’s not that much difference, but the intention is different.
Many years ago I setup a little script on some sites that would randomly load X number of links from a database of links, had around 100 links in the database. Added this to a lot of Amazon thin affiliate sites and it meant I had tens of thousands of pages with randomly generated links to my sites, wasn’t a good idea in hindsight and I would have had problems explaining what that isn’t SEO greyhat :-) Now I manually add links to sites, more work, but far safer.
Also randomly changing anchor text means Google will change your SERPs for both the pages the links are on and to. The Stallion WordPress SEO widget can generate a random posts widget and I use it, I can strongly argue this is for non-SEO reasons (slightly damaging SEO wise because the backlinks aren’t stable).
What I’d like to do is something similar to your idea, but no randomness. Basically have say three titles for a Category and have by default title 1 is used on home and all archives, title 2 on posts and pages and title 3 on everything else. Would also try to use the phrases within the category archives as well. Easy to say, hard to code :-)
If I could add this concept (which is an extension of the Stallion All In One Keyphrases) to the home page link, categories, tags, blogroll links etc… it would reduce the number of each instance of a particular anchor text usage. This is thinking out loud stage, not sure if it’s possible yet. really want to add something for the blogroll, don’t like all those sitewide links and adding links on a page by page basis is a lot of work.
David
How to SEO Anchor Text in a WordPress SEO Theme
Google Panda SEO Buster : WordPress Categories with Alternative SEO Titles
Hope you like the Google SEO Panda Buster title for this comment :-)
Got the concept described in the earlier comment working with the Stallion Category with Icons Widget.
Not fully coded yet, but have working code, in Stallion 8.0 there will be new options under the Posts >> Categories menu where like with the Stallion All In One SEO Keyphrases you can add multiple related keyphrases to a post/page you’ll be able to add multiple category keyphrases.
The keyphrases when added will be used by the Stallion Category with Icons Widget and possibly other parts of Stallion, the codes a little tricky, not figured it all out yet: might even be able to add an extra text form to add some content in the middle of the category archives so the categories could have some text at the top (WordPress core category description) and some in the middle or bottom.
Will work as follows, create a category or edit a category and add a few related keyphrases something like this:
Category Title – Search Engine Optimization
Category Keyphrase 1 – SEO Optimization
Category Keyphrase 2 – SEO Articles
Not decided on the number of phrases yet, unlikely to go above 4 (same as Stallion All In One SEO Keyphrases).
The Stallion Category with Icons Widget will output different anchor text and alt text (the image icon associated with the category link includes an alt attribute). It’s not fully coded yet, so not decided how exactly to use it but could be on
The home page the anchor text is Category Title, alt text Category Keyphrase 1
Categories the anchor text is Keyphrase 2, alt text Category Title
Posts the anchor text is Keyphrase 1, alt text Keyphrase 2
Pages the anchor text is Keyphrase 2, alt text Keyphrase 1
Just writing this down indicates I’m going to need at least 4 keyphrases (min original category title and 3 keyphrases) to be able to make the anchor and alt text unique over the different page types.
This will really mash up the anchor text and alt text of the internal links to categories which will significantly lower the duplicate anchor text footprint of internal links. Since the Google Panda updates are looking closer at the anchor text of links this should help make links to categories less duplicate and more natural allowing for more incoming backlinks to categories with the preferred keyphrase(s). Basically if every internal link has the same anchor/alt text you ideally need to mix up your incoming links anchor text more than we had to a year ago. This Stallion SEO feature will reduce the number of identical anchor/alt text internal links which might just help with how the Google Panda updates work when the algo looks at all links to a page (internal and external sources).
Although this concept is already possible with the Stallion SEO Posts Widget by creating several copies of the same widget and setting the keyphrases different for each widget and setting each widget to be hidden/load on certain pages I’m going to see if I can add this option into the widget as well (Stallion users should already be using the Stallion SEO Posts widget at least twice on every site) so we can add a widget once and Stallion automatically mixes the anchor text and alt text used because most users wouldn’t have this level of SEO understanding to create two identical widgets as described above. I’m using this feature on this site with the Stallion Popular Articles widget (created from a Stallion SEO Posts widget), check the three categories sections of this site and note the thumbnail set and the alt/anchor text of one of the categories is different to the other two. I’ve made two Popular Posts widgets and have them shown on different pages, half the site loads one, other half the other, one set uses a money thumbnail set and Stallion All In One keyphrase 1 and 2 and the other a business thumbnail set and All In One Title Tag and Stallion All In One keyphrase 3. Pain to manage though, want to make it easier.
David
Google Panda SEO Buster : WordPress Categories with Alternative SEO Titles
Responsive Theme Download Link
Hi Trying to download the responsive theme to give it a quick spin and I am getting the message ‘this file may have been moved or deleted’.
Keen on trying it out as I have been waiting for the responsive version for a while
Hummingbird SEO for WordPress
Tested the download links for the main Stallion Responsive zip file and the Stallion Responsive Child theme zip file and they both work. So you should be able to download the zip file and install a demo site.
Checked in both Firefox and Google Chrome with no problems?
The new responsive theme is awesome, I’m testing out the new SEO features and see some good results, just have to check out the title tags of pages indexed on this site. Search Google for:
There’s over 400 pages indexed on this site and most are due to comments.
Do a Google search for the title tags (minus the name of the site “Stallion Responsive Theme” which Google appends to the end of search results) of some of the indexed pages with long tail keyword phrases. You’ll find the interesting results when you get a few pages deep (page 4+ of the Google site: search results) where you’ll find titles like:
AutoBlog Blueprint Course Review of Contents
Adding AdSense Responsive Ad Unit Beta to WordPress …
Whitehat SEO PageRank Sculpting …
These are pages that wouldn’t exist on this site if I used another WordPress theme, they are the output of the Stallion Responsive SEO Super Comments feature.
I’ve given this comment a long tail keyword phrase comment title:
Stallion Responsive WordPress Theme Demo Download
I’ve not covered SERPs like WordPress Theme Demo or WordPress Theme Download and related SERPs, so this comment might get some relevant rankings when spidered and indexed. When I did the long tail keyword phrase search just now the main article to the comment was my best result at number 4, after this comment is indexed either the main article or this comments SEO super Comment is likely to be number 1.
It’s all the Stallion Responsive Hummingbird SEO features working together. these features work so well I’ve been going through old comments on my sites SEOing the comment titles for long tail SERPs. I have 10s of thousands of comments so a lot of work, but worth it, the Google Hummingbird algorithm seems to like the Stallion SEO super comments.
David Law
Hummingbird SEO for WordPress
Responsive Theme Layout
Hi, Downloaded Stallion Ok Now.
Is it possible with the responsive theme to get the layout like this site wordpressworld.co.uk which is using the Stallion non-responsive theme
WordPress Responsive Theme Layout
The options available in Stallion WordPress SEO version 7 are for the most part the same for Stallion Responsive SEO version 8.
The two sidebar responsive layouts are available under Stallion Theme >> Layout Options.
David Law
WordPress Responsive Theme Demo
hi David
do you have a demo for your stallion responsive seo theme?
Cheers,
Jeremy
Responsive WordPress Theme Demo Site
If you mean where can you download the Stallion Responsive Theme demo so you can install it on your own site to test out, the links to the themes zip files are within the article above and on the right sidebar: the big blue “Stallion Responsive Download” image is linked to the main Stallion zip file.
If you mean can you see a site that’s already running Stallion Responsive then you are on a site running Stallion Responsive now: all my sites are either running under Stallion Responsive or will be when updated (own over 130 domains, takes time to maintain them all).
I don’t have a demo site with an admin login, to test the Stallion options etc… you’ll need to install the theme on either one of your sites or a Localhost test server.
David Law
Responsive WordPress Theme Demo Site
Best Meme Generator WordPress Plugin
I’ve decided I’m awesome at SEO and dangerous with PHP: know enough PHP to do some serious damage :-)
Bought a meme generator WordPress plugin ($20) and adapting it to work exactly how I want SEO wise and though not finished when complete the meme posts will automatically have a Stallion featured thumbnail and use all 5 of the Stallion Responsive related keyphrases (and the original WordPress title).
If someone creates a meme (the plugin allows site users to create meme images) with the title “Grumpy Cat” the plugin in combination with Stallion responsive will automatically link to the new WordPress post (the meme plugin creates a new WordPress post) with links with anchor text something like:
Grumpy Cat Funny Meme
Funny Grumpy Cat Meme
Funny Meme Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat Meme
Grumpy Cat Meme Image
Meme Photo Grumpy Cat
Some of the above would also be used within the WordPress post.
Planning to use the plugin on humor sites, hence the funny reference, not decided on the exact phrases to target yet (not done the keyword research). Might even add loads more derivatives and add a random element to what the precise keyphrases used are. So though there’s 6 places (original main title and 5 keyphrases from Stallion) I could set say 20 different derivatives of the above types of phrases (relevant keywords before, after or surrounding the original title) and when a new meme is generated the 6 chosen phrases are randomized so even if two people create the same named title the output is unique.
Will also add the obvious SEO optimization as well, optimized filenames, optimized alt text etc…
All the SEO will be automated, the creator of the meme would choose a title for the meme (used as the original WordPress title), set the meme text (as all meme creators work) and the Stallion Responsive code I’ve added to the meme generator plugin will work automatically with Stallion to achieve full on Hummingbird level SEO.
Probably be the best search engine optimized meme creator sites online yet the original meme plugin lacked even basic SEO, didn’t even have alt text added to the image.
The only Achilles heal to this concept is relying on users to set a relevant meme title, from experience of comment titles users tend not to set particularly good ones. A grumpy cat meme that’s about hate might be called something like “Grumpy Cat Hates All”, you might get a title set by users as just cat or hate or something irrelevant like LOL.
David Law
Best Meme Generator WordPress Plugin
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Where is the link to the actually demo site….they all go back to your site.
Thanks for the sales pitch and lots of it! Links need to be put at top with sinks to demo sites. This has now wasted my time
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This website https://stallion-theme.co.uk/ the one you are on right now is a demo of the Stallion Responsive theme. So when you click a link on this site you are already loading a Demo of Stallion Responsive.
Because there’s so many features it’s impossible to show one demo site using all theme features.
Here’s a few examples, but they won’t show every feature since I tend to use the same sort of setup on most sites.
Skinny Me Weight Loss Blog
The best way to see what’s possible with Stallion is to download the theme zip file and install it on your own site. It runs with all features in demo mode (nothing is limited), so you can try out every feature (there’s advice within the options pages).
Most of the unique SEO features that take advantage of the new Google Hummingbird algo for example are behind the scenes, you need to install Stallion Responsive, setup Stallion Popular Posts widgets, go to posts and edit them and add Stallion Responsive related keyphrases to truly appreciate how advanced the SEO is.
It’s not a case of install Stallion Responsive and all the SEO is done for you (a lot is, but not all, it’s not just basic title tag SEO like you get with the Yoast SEO plugin and All In One SEO plugin), to get the most out of Hummingbird it’s a LOT of work. Looking at a post you won’t see all the built in SEO. But if you view the Recent Posts widget (right sidebar) on different parts of the site: home page, categories, pages and posts you’ll note the anchor text of the link to that post changes, that’s a Stallion Hummingbird SEO feature and it’s just one small part of the Stallion SEO.
I’m still in the process of building this site to describe all the Stallion Responsive features and have barely scratched the surface. First I have to build an entire WordPress SEO Tutorial Series to refer to for basic SEO then explain each Stallion feature. It’s a heck of a lot of work and to be honest with you the best way to learn how to use Stallion Responsive is install in and use it.
David Law
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