As Wordpress SEO Techniques, we want to focus on a specific area of SEO which is little talked about yet yields HUGE results for Google, Yahoo and Bing indexing - the opening use of anchor text in onsite pages and blog posts.

We know that it is popular for webmasters to set-up a website and immediately try to obtain high PR back links. We would never say that back links aren't critical to receiving high organic search ranks but they must be obtained in conjunction with in post...

When we first began our setting up Wordpress journey, there were many times when our founder says he was held hostage by web developers. They spoke an unknown language called HTML. Back then, 2000 was the year, the proposition of even setting up the most basic sorts of blog and website was truly an expensive undertaking. Three years later a platform emerged called WordPress and put designers and developers on notice!

As an open source content management system, WordPress was designed...

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...

You may have heard that WordPress is the best platform for hosting your very own download area or protected membership site where you can charge a one-time fee or a multi-fee for access to content. You can use WordPress and install it as is and use any WordPress plugin and easily manipulate, add any content the way you would with any WordPress blog but you have the added benefit of charging for your information. The pieces to get this all set up are to install your WordPress blog, to install a membership...

When people are talking about WordPress, they may be talking about WordPress.com which is the remotely hosted version of WordPress that's free or WordPress.org which is the self-hosted version of WordPress which is also free but it costs you money to host that site on a webhost such as HostGator or BlueHost. If you're deciding between your remotely hosted site like WordPress.com or remotely hosted like WordPress.org, you should definitely be self-hosted because when you're self-hosted, you have...