5 Free SEO Plugins Essential For Any Blog

Important Note: This page is now considered outdated, and has only been left up for legacy purposes. Google Authorship is no longer relevant, and P3 Performance Profiler will break your website if you try to install it.

One of the features that makes WordPress one of the world’s best content management systems is the fact that it is so changeable, so easily. With only a few clicks, webmasters are able to install plugins that can completely change the website’s functionality: adding new features, tweaking your design, or even improving your sites search engine optimization. While it’s not a good idea to clutter your blog with unnecessary plugins (as these can slow down your pages load time or cause bugs and security issues), there are a few plugins that every blogger can benefit from. In this article, I will share 5 plugins with you that are essential for any blog to reach its maximum potential.

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Do Forum Signatures Give Any SEO Benefit?

Is it possible that one link inside of a forum signature could send you to the front page of Google? Are forum signatures the key to blasting your rankings above all of your competitors? Should forum posting be part of your SEO strategy?

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Authorship And The Future Of SEO

Note: This post is now considered to be outdated, as Authorship was not rolled out fully due to poor adoption. While Google still shows interests in pursuing some sort of authority ranking for content creators themselves, the specifics mentioned in this post are no longer relevant.

Ranking in search engines is so much different than it used to be. When search engines were new, you were able to rank highly in Google just for mentioning your target keywords multiple times on each of your pages. These days, it’s not that easy. In fact, it’s getting harder and harder to rank highly in Google, which is why you need to start building your Author Rank now. 

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Why Organic Traffic Triumphs Viral Traffic

Viral vs Organic Traffic

Which of these two options sound better to you? One, you could have a blog post go viral, bringing thousands of visitors to your website in one day. Or two, you could have one well optimized post that brings you a small amount of organic traffic (that is, traffic from search engines) each day. A lot of people would choose option one – how cool would it be to see hundreds of shares on one of your post, hundreds of visitors browsing your website at one time, right? Well guess what – a lot of people are wrong. The steady organic traffic would by far be the best option, and here’s why. 

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Disqus Vs WordPress Default Comments – Which Is Better For Your Blog?

Wordpress vs Disqus

These days, we have a ton of different comment systems to choose from for our WordPress powered blogs. We have Livefyre. We have Disqus. We have social media commenting systems such as Facebook and Google+ comments.  And of course, we have WordPress’ native, default comment system. The two most popular of these being Disqus, and WordPress comments. But which is the best one for your blog? You may be surprised! 

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4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Pay For Traffic Services

We are impatient. It’s human nature. We want to see things done, and we want to see things done quickly. And that’s no different with our traffic numbers. You take a look at Google Analytics, and the results are disappointing. Although the numbers are slowly climbing, it doesn’t seem to be fast enough. Ever have that feeling? I know I have!

Maybe you’re starting to get too impatient. You see a service selling traffic, and you’re tempted to buy into it. I’m here to stop you. Here are my top 4 reasons why you shouldn’t pay for traffic from traffic services, such as Fiverr gigs.

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