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Thesis v1.7 is out! – New Features Inside!

Ed Gately — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:22:40 +0000

I decided to be adventurous tonight and be one of the first folks to install the v1.7 release of Thesis by DIYthemes. I’ve always been impressed by the code the team at DIY produce. This new version will not disappoint. Granularity of control seems to be the name of the game with this new release.

SEO goes to lightspeed

SEO for WordPress is going to be turned on its ear. You now have the option to apply custom and javascript settings for every post and page…. yes EVERY one. On top of that, you can also control ROBOT tages (noindex, nofolow, noarchive) for every post and page too! All of these options are no grouped on a new Thesis menu option titled PAGE OPTIONS.

Menu Layout Changes

I did have a moment of panic when I was looking to tweak the configuration of my Home Page meta only to find it missing from where I expected it. Version 1.7 of Thesis has had a reboot of the organization its menu. Items seem to be more logically associated.

There are 5 main pages now:

Site Options – organized for most of your top level configuration items

Design Options – organized to hold all items css type items

Page Options – new item holding page, post, category , robots and javascript customizations

Custom File Editor – virtually unchanged

Options Manager – AMAZING addition to save your config (Backup, Upload, Restore) crazy good for theme developers

Java Support

Poking around I noticed several check boxes for jQuery, jQueryUI, Prototype, MooTools, and others. This will be killer for removing the need for JS library folders. I can’t wait to get to playing with these.

Other feature ups

Easy 301 redirects for your affiliate links
New headline filter for creating diverse posts styles (think of “asides”)
Beefed-up Internationalization – better translation support
Improved core element defaults
Flexible new comment system – drag and drop display order of comments, trackbacks and comment form.

Installation was pretty painless. I would like to mention there is a slight difference between the Video Upgrade Tutorial vs the Written Upgrade Tutorial. I wound up making a small mistake following the written upgrade tutorial. (I will be posting an update on my little adventure with this later) Follow the Video Upgrade Tutorial and you will be golden.

Free Backlinks Using Social Bookmarking

Ed Gately — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:15:22 +0000

If you’ve studied SEO techniques at all you already know how important it is to have backlinks to your site. Doesn’t really even matter what kind of site you have, links from other sites to your site is how the search engines find you. In addition once you are found the search engines use these links as kind of a “voting” system to determine the value of your site.

The more backlinks to your site the better, but the quality of the links you are getting is also very important. So don’t just immediately think that getting 1,000′s of links will do anything for you if they are just from random no name sites.

Another reason to go after high quality backlinks is the larger benefit than just SEO purposes. I was talking with the owner of a large blog once and he brought something to light that I never realized before. He said that his number one source of traffic was Google. He received probably 30-40% of his traffic from searches on Google. But if you looked at the rest of the traffic as a whole, he was receiving 60% of his traffic all from other sites that were linking to him. While he’d never wish loosing Google’s traffic, the rest of his traffic all came from backlinks, and it was even more valuable from him on it’s own.

So let’s talk more on getting a backlink booster shot

The hottest topics these days are social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, social everything. While many of these areas offer opportunities lets just focus on the social bookmarking in this article.

There are literally hundred’s of websites dedicated to bookmarking sites online that might have valuable information and sharing those bookmarks with others. These networks are like large databases of links.

Lately, I’ve been investigating how to properly add links to my own sites into these social bookmarking sites. Not only could this mean lots of backlinks if done properly but with attractive listings you could open your site up to these networks of people looking for quality information.

There is an easy backlink builder for you to utilize

Creating and managing 100′s of bookmarking sites will be difficult, but it will also be well worth it. If you’d like to learn more about exactly how to create bookmarks and why there is a correct way and a wrong way, then you must read this quality PDF on generating free backlinks.

While I would highly recommend reading the PDF first because it is important to understand how to do it on your own, if you’d like to also learn an automated method of generating these backlinks, learn how to Drive Hordes Of Targeted Traffic In Minutes!

Increase Blog Traffic With Keywords – Free Keyword Tool Download

David Porter — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:49:08 +0000

Owning a blog can be an exciting thing. It can be even more exciting when you start to see lots of new website visitors come in.

And WordPress is the perfect blogging system (in my opinion) for getting new visitors via free search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

BUT, not all blog owners using WordPress, or any blog platform, are doing well in the search engines.

This could be for a lot reason…

No blog marketing or promotion at all
No one linking back to them
Not posting to their blog enough
Using old and duplicate content

The list goes on and on.

But one of the main things keeping people out of the search engines is keywords.

Yup, keywords.

If you want to start getting some good search engine rankings and increase blog traffic, you need to do a little keyword research when you write your blog posts and try to fit the best keywords into your post and title.

It’s an important part of building blog traffic, and one most bloggers over look.

And the weird thing is, it’s not really that hard to do either. It might sound like a lot of work, but it doesn’t have to be.

When most people think of getting keywords for anything, they think of using some complicated program and having to know all sorts of information and blah, blah.

It’s not that hard – really!

All you need is a basic, bare bones keyword tool to pull up some keywords and you’re good to go.

As a matter of fact, here’s a free tool for you, on me

WordPress Master Blogging Keyword Tool <= Download

Once you have a basic keyword tool, you just do a quick search and you have a list of keywords to choose from.

So, if you where doing a blog post on “Quilting”, you would open the keyword tool and do a search on “Quilting”. The tool will then give you a bunch of keywords on that topic that you can choose from.

Screen Shot Of Keyword Tool From Download Above

Then you just go through the keywords and pick a few that fit your new post well, and try to fit those keywords into your post content.

Make sure your post makes sense though!!

But if you can get them into your post, you’re on the right track.

Now, see if your can fit one or two of the keywords into your blog post title (making sure it makes sense of course).

If you have a SEO WordPress plugin, add the keywords to the plugin for that post.

Use those same keywords as that post tags.

That’s it, you’re golden

By doing this you’re making sure you have the keywords you know people are searching for in your posts, which will help with getting more blog traffic.

Remember, owning a blog is great, fun and even something a lot of people find to be calming. But, if your blog doesn’t get any traffic it’s not doing anything for you at all.

Start adding keywords to your blog posts, titles and tags and you’re going to see a nice increase in blog visitors and search engine traffic.

The Best WordPress SEO Plugin

David Porter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:57:34 +0000

Having a blog is the easiest and fastest way to get free search engine traffic, but if you want to have targeted search engine traffic you need to take it a step further and make sure all of your blog posts are search engine optimized.

Now, this can be a very tough thing for some people, and time consuming for others.

But with this FREE plugin you can get for your WordPress blog you can start optimizing your posts easy as 1.2.3.

The plugin is called: All-In-One-SEO

This plugin allows your to quickly add custom Title, Description and Keyword tags to each and every blog post and page your enter in WordPress.

One of the biggest things you’ll see all SEO “gurus” talking about is title tags.

Just download it, upload it as normal and activate it and your ready to go.

All you have to do from that point on is enter the needed info with every blog post and page in the All-In-One-SEO section and you’re in

There are a ton of plugins out there that help with adding SEO to WordPress and I’ll be covering all of the ones I use and have tested so keep an eye open for them.

But for now, go get All-In-One-SEO if you’re not already using it. You’ll love it, use it and thank yourself for trying it.