Archive for August, 2009

Are you currently blogging using Wordpress? Looks like Wordpress is so user friendly our friend has got a tattoo for it. Cute.. and good job buddy! Image by danpeerflix.

If you’re a Wordpress fan too, then you should really check out this presentation by Matt Cutts, Head of Google’s Web Spam Team.

In his Wordcamp presentation, Matt mentioned and provided many good pointers, examples and tips for Wordpress users.

These are some that I really liked:

• In order to do well with your blog, you need to write about stuffs that you love – DAILY. This is really true because it’s really difficult to write about something we are unfamiliar with. It feels like forcing myself to drink Dr. Pepper.
• Changing the URL to rank for more keywords. See an example on this post.The title is Some really good Wordpress + SEO tips by Matt Cutts while the URL is some-really-good-wordpress-seo-tips-by-a-google-engineer. See how I changed Matt Cutts to Google Engineer on my URL. Before this presentation, I have never changed my urls coz I thought Google wouldn’t like it. But after the presentation, I actually tested it on a few of my other blogs and it did work. I got ranked for both keywords in the title and in the URL.
• Plugins Matt Cutts use. I learned about Cookies for Comments.

You can view the presentation on WordCampTV or even visit Matt Cutts post at Straight from Google: What You Need to Know