So often, I see websites that have decent SEO breadcrumb trails which extend from a well-chosen URL to a great header and awesome H tags throughout the home page.

However, when arriving at the footer, it seems as if all attempts at optimization abruptly end! Over the years, I have constantly warned both my onsite blog readers as well as clients that this area, while not as important as others, does matter in the overall mix of indexing placement.

There are three areas...

There are many questions here in the forum concerning WordPress SEO. I'm going to take up the challenge of posting helpful tips through use of a series of posts on the topic.

One question which seems to generate much discussion with search engine optimization is use of cache and compression plugins. It would take many posts to dig into each plugin as thoroughly as need be however, before ever seeking to use either, there are some things you can do to aid website load time.
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In this post we'll deal with which is more important - one-way links from another site or on site anchor text links.

Those who understand search engine optimization will immediately know how totally ridiculous it is trying to put the two against one another! We want to encourage our readers to understand this - in order to create an effective organic search engine strategy, neither is more important than the other.

It constantly amazes us that many professing SEO experts...

The answer is both 'yes' and 'no'. Yes if your on-site optimization efforts are geared towards complementing a solid, long-term back link strategy and no if dependent exclusively on back links to obtain high search position.

We once had two clients with opposing views on the importance of both linking and content creation. Client #1 was so afraid of being back linked to the ever dreaded 'link farm' and thus receiving a search engine ban that they refused all back link efforts.
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