WIAW Week in Review: September 26 – October 2, 2009

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News

Website In A Weekend is going on the road next week! Not sure where yet, we’ll see where the car ends up when I get there. North, south, who knows? California this time of year is lovely. Actually, California at just about any time of year is lovely!

In the meantime, we’ve started the process for getting listed at Technorati. Here’s the claim #: 2zt7uypxej.

Updated posts

• Added Unleash WordPress tag to posts following the advice given in Practical WordPress Tip #13: Posts In Same Series Need Unique Tag.
• How To Create Custom Template Pages in Thesis Theme: Added path information to the Thesis theme files needed for customizing. Also added a source code list out for the custom page template file.
• Added new SEO Description to Unleash WordPress: Quick tips for effective images: “Images and blog posts are a natural fit, and you need to know these fast techniques for creating cleaner, sharper images for your blog posts.” Since it had no description, google was displaying the first few lines of the post:
  
  

  No SEO description results in first lines of article shown in SERPs

  When the new description is displayed, there will be a screenshot.

• Fixed a couple of outright errors in “Leveraging Images In WordPress For Better SEO.” How embarrassing. Website In A Weekend strives to provide the most accurate, up-to-date information available on WordPress. In the future, I’m going to offer a premium to anyone who finds an outright error in any post. This won’t apply to most SEO because there’s no way to prove What’s Google Up To?
• Install WordPress on Your New Web Site in 5 minutes: Added a link to an article detailing problems with default paths on Fantastico script installation for WordPress.

New posts

• Search Engines ARE Part of Your Audience. Do you really need to worry about SEO? Do you know why or why not? Read more and find out!
• What the Heck is HTML <title> element and why do I need one? Confused about the HTML title tag or element? No worries, many people share your confusion, but it’s easy, just read this clear and complete explanation.
• When SEO Matters… 3 Reasons It Matters A Lot!: Extensive SEO may or may not matter. Here’s 3 points for when it does matter, a lot!
• Advanced SEO IMG Element Handling For WordPress (Part I): See easy it is to correctly add images with SEO metadate to help drive traffic to your WordPress blog (technique works for all web pages).
• Advanced SEO IMG Element Handling For WordPress (Part II): This article takes you on your next step to image SEO mastery for WordPress. Essential definitions you need to know plainly explained, with canonical links.

From the Archives!

Each week, we showcase a great post buried down in the archives, useful material you can use right away. This week, check out the very first post here on Website In A Weekend: “How To Rapidly And Easily Create Pillar And Flagship Content For Your Blog.” Writing the pillar, or flagship content for your blog is really easy once you break the process down into simple steps.

Upcoming

Taking a look in the Drafts queue, I see a number of interesting articles coming along. Look for one in particular: “How to Use StumbleUpon Without Tripping Over Terms and Conditions” where I’ll get you started on StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a great research tool, a great way to build long tail traffic, and a great way to surf the web when you just can’t find anything interesting to look at.

There’s a couple more posts on img and title handling coming up as well, which ought to conclude the Geronimo series.

And of course, one or more Practical WordPress Tips!

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