Archive for the "SEO" Category

According to Wikipedia, WordPress was used on more than 200 million websites by the end of 2009. This is huge for any CMS on the market, more so for an open source blogging platform. I won’t get into what made WordPress CMS spread so much, as this is not the purpose of this post. I’ll only point out one of the things that contributed to this tremendous spread of WordPress: it’s templating system, the ease of customizing its themes and the great number of free and premium WordPress themes available.

However, despite the huge number of WordPress themes on the market and the “boom” in theme development for WordPress powered websites, one thing I’ve noticed in most of the themes I’ve tested and the new ones that come out: a very non-SEO choice of html tags for the blog and post titles, leading to a decrease of SEO power of the title tags. To understand what I’m talking about, let’s take a look at the HTML coding of the default WordPress theme – that probably served as a model for a lot of the themes available now. Read more

Few years ago, when CSS itself was “the new wave” in web design, when most of the web pages used tables within tables within other tables to be able to render a decent layout, well, back than, CSS was mainly a new tool for creating more flexible, better looking web pages. Search engines were also in their early years and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) was only a distant concept for most of the people, with very few things known beyond the title and keywords meta tags. Things changed a lot since then. Today, the search engines and their algorithms evolved so much, and with thousands of websites getting launched everyday the fight for the topmost places in the search engines results means way more than just writing a keyword reach title or filling the keywords meta tag with a bunch of more or less related phrases. Read more