My blog and social graph.
A friend recently asked me how to move his blog, which is on /blog/ on his domain, to a new domain on it's own. The steps are easy, but have to be taken in the right order to make sure you're not annoying your users and the search engines: Put up a robots.txt on the new domain with the following contents: User-agent: * Disallow: / Copy the database and files to the new domain. Edit wp-config.php to have the right database settings, and add the following lines, replacing sample.com with the right domain...
via blog.asmartbear.com Interesting take on optimization from Smart Bear Marketing...
Home > Internet, Marketing, Opinion, Search Engine Optimization > Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet Marketing Snake Oil) Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet Marketing Snake Oil) by Tamar Weinberg on March 10, 2010 I met her during my freshman year of college, though she was two years my senior. We’d exchange greetings when we passed in the dormitory hallways. Nine years later, we met again when we were assigned to the same...
You may have noticed I’ve been writing a lot about SEO copywriting lately. More than that, I’ve been working on a content optimization software solution for the last 6 months with a team of very smart people. It’s called Scribe, and it makes SEO copywriting simple. Creating search optimized web pages, blog posts, and press releases used to be time consuming at best and mystifying at worst. Not anymore. What is Scribe? Scribe is an SEO software service for WordPress that analyzes the content of web pages, blog...