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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Blogging is beautiful as it allows you to share your ideas and opinions for all the World Wide Web to read. Fortunately starting a blog can be very easy these days as there are many free blogging sites available online. However you need to know which sites offer the best tools for setting up and managing your web publishing operation. Today we’ve gathered 10 of the best blogging platforms online to help you choose the one that suits your needs best.

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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).

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If you have created FeedBurner feed for your website or blog, it’s important to optimize, publicize and monetize it by activating any services you think are necessary.

How to Optimize FeedBurner Feed

The following services are important to optimize your feed, you need to make sure that you have them activated: Read more…

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…

If you have set up a FeedBurner feed for your website or blog, your readers can subscribe to your RSS feed using a feed reader. However, to fully utilize this free website service, you should also set up an email subscription to drive more traffic to your blog. It’s definitely easier than setting up a weekly newsletter or email marketing campaign, so let’s get started!

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Comments are valuable information and discussion made by audience in the websites and blogs. However, the default comment box in most of the weblog publishing platforms is simplistic and uninspiring. Being a serious blogger, it is important to enhance the capabilities of your comment system to build an active community from your audience, eliminate spam and improve the appearance of comments. Disqus.com is a free comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web. Why is this comment system worth the attention? First of all, it is used by some major websites such as CNN, TechCrunch, FoxNews, IGN, etc. It works for most of the popular publishing platforms including WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Drupal and more.

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FeedBurner is a web feed management provider that is loaded with lots of features that you do not get with the default WordPress feed. This free service is very popular, many major websites and blogs are using it to burn their RSS feeds and make them available for everyone to subscribe to. The advantages of using FeedBurner include analyze statistics, optimize and publicize your feed, configure Google AdSense in your feed and much more. So, if you want to make your blog successful, simply follow the step by step guide below to set up your blog feeds with FeedBurner now.

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Choosing a right social marketing tool for your website or blog is important as it will help you get more out of social networks as well as attracting more traffic and eyeballs. However, you might be confused on which social bookmarking plugin you should be using as there are lots of plugins available on the web. As a result of extensive research and testing, we‘ve compiled a list of highly rated and commonly use plugins for you to choose one that best fits into the theme of your site. Let us know which plugin do you choose for your WordPress blogs?

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Facebook “Like” button is a very important social tool to promote your blog or website. Imaging that if your reader like your blog post and click the “Like” button on your site, it will then be shared with all his or her friends on Facebook. A story will appear in your reader’s friends’ News Feed with a link back to your website. This is definitely one of the most powerful word of mouth advertising you can get and most importantly it’s free. Basically there are 2 ways to add the Facebook’s Like buttons into your hosted WordPress blog or website.

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Undoubtedly Google Search is the most-used search engine on the web. With the introduction of Google Custom Search Engine (Google CSE), you can add the powerful Google search box to your website or blog helping people find what they need such as blog posts, pages and images on your site.

With Google Custom Search you can:

• Host the search box and search result page on your own website.
• Search through one or more websites, or specific web pages.
• Customize the format of the search results to match your website.

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Comment notification via email is one of the great features in the WordPress. However many users found that they are not able to receive any comment notification emails after the WordPress is being upgraded to the latest version. If you are having the same problem, the WordPress plugin below which is compatible with Google Gmail will help you to solve it out.

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We all know that the default WordPress search engine doesn’t match keywords that well. It displays search results ordered by date not by relevance to the keywords. Therefore it is necessary to enhance the search functionality to improve visitors search experience. The list below recommends 5 highly rated search engine plugins that are available in the WordPress plugin directory. You may try them and check out the search results.

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What is Favicon.ico? A favicon (short for “favorites icon”), also known as shortcut icon, bookmark icon, website icon or URL icon is a small image appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. It also shows up in the Favourites or Bookmarks menu, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for internet shortcuts on your desktop. It is a good way to brand your site and help your visitors to visually identify your site in their Bookmarks menu. This little icon is typically a graphic 16 x 16 or 32 x 32 pixels square and is saved as favicon.ico in the root directory of your server.

Below you will find a step by step guide to create a favicon. Read more…

Linkwithin is a blog widget that shows related posts with thumbnail images under each post. This widget is free, easy to install and no signup required. It will not only keep your readers engaged with your blog but also increase the traffic. If you have a WordPress blog, you may follow installation steps below to give it a try.

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