Google Plus, as we have expected has started in taking a huge part in the social media network war. As of this writing, there are almost 10,000,000 people using it within a short time after it was launched.
If you are into internet marketing, Google Plus will surely play a big role in the industry so you should have a good knowledge of how to use it on your campaigns.
From the recent WordCamp Philippines 2008, I preferred attending the WordPress & SEO lecture by Hans Koch. He pointed out good notes to write down about some of the best seo-related plugins, and other aspects of seo that you can work with wordpress but he did miss something, that is working with the permalink structure.
I have checked a number blogs earlier and found out that most of them don’t care of the permalinks issue. If you’ll notice, wordpress permalink by default shows a question mark and numbers in it, obviously not search engine friendly. You can customize this by going to Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks section of your wordpress powered blog. You’ll see five options there for your permalink:
I personally prefer to have a single domain name and will do redirect 301 response header all the others, in maximizing my page ranking.
Well, to make it simple, the whole idea here is to take a domain like http://kontrapelo.com and redirect it to http://www.kontrapelo.com consolidating all incoming links to a single domain, wether they use “www” or not.
Here’s a simple mod_rewrite rule you can add to .htaccess to accomplish this, put it above any other rewrite rules that you are using, you may want the other rules to apply to the www. domain after the initial redirect.
Here’s a quick simple tip on how to increase your youtube video views by taking advantage of other members.
If you’re about to promote your video, find existing videos in youtube similar to your niche which already has tons of views or those uploaded by users who are really getting good traffic via their uploaded videos, then copy their tags to the video you’re uploading.
The logic is that whenever their video is watched, your video will appear in their related videos in the sidebar which will give you lot more possible views.
