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WordPress SEO: Updating Permalink Structure

By on September 12, 2008 in SEO, Tutorials

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:

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URL Rewriting: Redirecting To A Single Domain

By on September 11, 2008 in SEO, Tutorials

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.

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Google Buying Digg

By on July 25, 2008 in Industry News

Rumors have been flowing the past months about a negotiation between Google and Digg. The two companies reportedly signed a letter of intent nearing a deal of around $200million which will put Digg under the Google News property.

I wonder where Microsoft will be placed after this sale, if you don’t know yet, Digg has a 3-year ad arrangement
with them.

Digg has been popular for its voting concept that fascinated Google.

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Viacom vs Youtube Produce Privacy Scare

By on July 5, 2008 in Industry News

Viacom Youtube CaseA US judge ordered Google to hand over log-in names of YouTube users and Internet protocol (IP) addresses identifying which computers they used for viewing videos to Viacom, in part of the gigantic court case between them.

“The court’s erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube,” Google senior litigation counsel Catherine Lacavera said.

“We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users.”

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Busby SEO Challenge Craze

By on July 3, 2008 in SEO

I was checking into some forums, social sites and blogs earlier as I am looking for some possible link partners and ended into sites filled with busby seo challenge links for competitors. :-) even web directories! Seems like everyone’s going crazy to get every link space in the web.

Every participant will surely do everything they can just to grab the $5000 top prize, though black hat is not allowed, there’s surely one or two that will use it, either for the benefit of their sites or for pulling down other’s site and it makes me wonder what if that happens to me or any other participants? Well, it’s part of the game and makes it more exciting…

Honestly, I am not applying too much work for this busby seo challenge entry of mine as I’m a bit busy working for several clients the past few days, the only thing I’ve applied is just a few bookmarks and applying links from my other sites. Hopefully, I’ll have more time to work on this as I am also hoping to grab the top spot, not much for the prize but for the honor!

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