Updated on
November 30th, 2012
by Quertime Team in WordPress
Understanding SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can help search engines crawl and index your blog correctly. This makes your blog rank well in search results pages which helps to increase both web traffic and ad revenue. There are myriad of SEO tips and tricks available on the web, but which one should you apply to your blog? Some bloggers prefer to pay premium price hiring professional SEO companies to optimize their sites. Before you decide to go for this way, here are some basic and effective SEO tips you can use to optimize your WordPress blog. Give them a try to improve your blog ranking in the search results.
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November 27th, 2012
by Quertime Team in Web Development
As a blogger we all know that writing quality articles is one of the best ways to attract more loyalty readers and most importantly rank higher in the search engine results. Google has been aggressively improving its search engine ranking algorithm with the aim of giving its users the most relevant and useful search results. In February 2011, Google has rolled out Panda / Farmer aiming to lower the rank of low-quality sites, and return high quality sites to the top of the search results. The change has reportedly affected almost 12 percent of all search results. Many websites have experienced steep drop in both traffic and associated revenue.
Are you a victim of Google Panda? What are you supposed to do to recover the lost web traffic? Well, all you have to do is to see Google Panda as a point scoring system. Here’s the concept. Read more…
Updated on
August 1st, 2018
by Quertime Team in Search Engines
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays a vital role in maximizing a website’s online presence and growing your online business. Regardless you are running a website, blog or e-Commerce site, you should get yourself familiar with things you should and should not be doing on your web pages to make them rank higher in Google and other search engines.
If you are lacking of SEO knowledge, here’s a collection of 50 useful infographics to help you understand the concept better and remember the SEO strategies easily. Read more…
Updated on
August 1st, 2018
by Quertime Team in Blogging
When it comes to website or blog promotion, there are many practices can be used to create your site awareness and get more traffic. Some of the common ways include blog commenting, guest posting, social media activities, RSS submissions, link exchange and many more. Today we will be focusing on guest blogging which can be seen on many popular blogs. Whether you agree or not, guest blogging is widely recognized as one of the most effective ways of getting yourself noticed and driving traffic towards your blog site. Being a guest blogger, you’ll enjoy many benefits if your guest post is accepted and published on high traffic blog. Every visitor reading your post will find out about you as a personal and your knowledge of the subject.
In most of the cases, guest blogs will include a small bio paragraph about you, the guest blogger and a link to your own site at the bottom of the page. This will not only drive traffic to your website but also give you a tremendous boost in your SEO strategy. Read more…
Updated on
December 26th, 2016
by Quertime Team in WordPress
If you are running a WordPress blog, you should know how important it is to optimize your blog so that Google and other search engines can discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. Fortunately there are myriad of WordPress plugins developed for search engine optimization (SEO). Most of them are available on the WordPress repository where you can download for free.
With these SEO plugins you can easily choose the right tags, instruct search engine robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and much more. Now the question is which SEO plugin can effectively optimize your blog? To help you choose the right plugin, following are 25 popular SEO plugins you can use to increase your site ranking on the search results. Read more…
Updated on
December 26th, 2016
by Quertime Team in WordPress
If you think that creating more tags, categories, date and other kind of archive pages help to increase your site ranking in Google search engine, you’re probably wrong! This year, Google rolled out a number of updates called Google Panda to improve Internet search results. The purpose of the changes is clear, they basically aim to lower the rank of “low-quality sites” in search results and return high-quality sites to users. Panda rollout has affected almost 12% of all search results. Many websites have experienced a substantial drop in their traffic. So what’s the first thing you should do to improve your website or blog and avoid being affected by Panda effects? Here are some tips you must know!
Updated on
December 25th, 2016
by Quertime Team in Web Development
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website in organic search results for a specified set of key phrases. In general, the higher a site ranks in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. When it comes to optimizing a personal website or blog for the search engines, some people will make use of backlinks, anchor text, keywords, etc. or pay a SEO company thousand of dollars to get it done. If you are new to web development and can’t afford to pay for SEO, why don’t you try some free tools and services that are available online for web analysis?
In this article, we are going to introduce you some of the best and most useful SEO tools that you can use to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher for free! Enjoy. Read more…
Updated on
January 4th, 2024
by Quertime Team in Web Development
Are you looking for some useful practices to improve your pages ranking in the search results? If your answer is yes, the first thing you should know about is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – a process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the search results.
You may think that SEO is very complicated and confusing, but the basics of SEO are quite easy to understand. Today we would like to discuss about some useful SEO practices that will not only help your pages get higher ranking in search results but also drive more traffic to your site. So don’t miss the opportunity to give yourself a good foundation in learning search engine optimization! Read more…
Updated on
August 1st, 2018
by Quertime Team in Web Development
Getting more web traffic is always the most important goal for web developers and bloggers. You might even search over the web for best ways to generate or increase your web traffic but end up finding them confusing and meaningless. Today we would like to share with you some of the best guides available online on how to increase your site’s traffic and how to build more links for your website or blog. We believe you will find most of them useful and work for your site. So just go through the guides below and take action to increase your site or blog traffic now!
Updated on
December 1st, 2012
by Quertime Team in WordPress
WordPress URL structure by default is neither search engine friendly nor user friendly. It will greatly affect your ranking in Google and other search engines. In this article, we have summarized the WordPress Codex on using permalinks for your easy understanding. We will also show you how to make a good URL structure for your WordPress blog, both SEO friendly and user friendly. It will not only increasing your chances of ranking higher in search results, but also letting your visitors know the article what it is about by just looking at the URL.
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January 6th, 2013
by Quertime Team in Web Development
Being a serious blogger or webmaster, you should check your blog or website for broken links and 404 errors on a regular basis. Why is it so crucial? Imaging that if your visitors click on a referring link from an external website and land on 404 error page of your site, they will most likely leave the site in favor of another one. Other than that, broken links and bad redirect will stop Googlebot from crawling the inner pages of your site. It will negatively affect your search engine rankings so it’s very important to be proactive in checking and removing any broken links you found. One of the best ways to find these broken links and get them fixed is using Google Webmaster Tools. If you have signed up for Google Webmaster Tools and have set it up and verified your site, here are 2 simple tutorials for you to check and remove broken links or invalid URL.
Updated on
January 6th, 2013
by Quertime Team in WordPress
Sometimes the links in our blog may have errors due to changes in URL locations, deleted pages, missing images, site moved to a different domain and so on. It’s quite impossible to check all the links manually if you have lots of posts in your blog. Fortunately this problem can be addressed by installing Broken Link Checker plugin on your WordPress blog. This plugin allows you to check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found. It also improves usability, user experience and search engine optimization (SEO).
Updated on
November 10th, 2016
by Quertime Team in Web Development
If you are serious about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and online marketing, then keyword research must be conducted to find out what people are searching for. You can make use of the keywords or keyword phrases on your website content, advertising, and affiliate links to improve your conversion and maximize quality traffic to your website or blog through search engines.
Updated on
December 2nd, 2012
by Quertime Team in WordPress
HTML sitemap is a bulleted outline text version of the site navigation. It helps people navigate your website or blog especially when they are unable to find by searching the site or navigating through the site menus. Using the sitemap can be important when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as it helps search engines find and index your website pages in a more effective manner. It will also improve chances for having your pages ranked high in search engine result pages for relevant search terms.
Today we would like to recommend you 2 popular WordPress plugins to create a HTML sitemap with ease. Read more…
