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This is a complete copy of the posting from http://seo4wordpress.wordpress.com

I wanted to keep a copy for myself and so have grabbed the compete entry.

Or you could also check out this page it seems to have the ultimate in content word press management.

problem at the moment is i can;t get it to work !!!! argh

Running a WordPress Blog is best done on you own Domain, and for the best results you need to create Search Engine Friendly URL’s.
This means instead of a post link like

http://seo4wordpress.wordpress.com/page=33 (example)

you get links to

http://seo4wordpress.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/the-beginning-of-search-engine-optimization-for-wordpress/

If you want to use the permalinks option to get clean urls, there are three conditions you have to meet:

Conditions:

* Webserver running on a Unix or Linux Distribution (Windows is possible, but much harder)
* Webserver software you use is Apache with the MOD_Rewrite module active (Most hosting servers provide this)
* Use of you own .htaccess file.

If your webhosting provider is running these options, as said most of the do, you are ready to activate the permalinks option.

Login to you administration panel and go to the Options menu and then choose for Permalinks.
Tick the option - Custom and use then /%postname%/ for the best results.

WordPress will not let you create the same post slugs so you don’t need to be affraid that you get duplicate urls..

The .htaccess File

Once you set the option, you get an update of the field content below that shows you the content of what is going to be your .htaccess file.

If you uploaded an empty .htaccess file and made sure it was writable WordPress would have filled it for you.

If you didn’t you need to copy and past the content of that field into an empty file created with Notepad, Not Word or any other wordprocessor, because you need a flat file.

Save it as htaccess.txt and then upload it to your root directory of your wordpress installation.
Once you have done that, set the permissions to 707 and rename the file to .htacess.

Most FTP Programs will not show you the file anymore, than the . files are hidden files in Unix.
Fillezilla has an option to show you these hidden files.

If you did everything the right way, you should now see your URL as mentioned above.

I have posted a few entries on this blog about “link baiting” inadvertently.

Through the inclusion of links in tools and lately the inclusion of embedded links in word press themes

Its another of the multitude of SEO terms that I hear all the time but have never really defined for my self.

So what is link baiting?

John Chow uses an analogy of fishing. He a kins it to fishing for links from other blogs and websites for SEO purposes, that obviously bring you traffic and hopefully revenue.
Rather than using any old bait he says you should use ” content specially designed to get you linked up by the websites you’re fishing for.”

Here are four other techniques that john chow mentions on his blog

Ask For A Review
Write About The Site You Wish To Bait
Interview A Site Owner
The Trade Show Photo Trick

Another blog by Nick Wilson also talks of 5 other techniques that can be used.
Comments on this posting are good as well.

In order to bait a link, you need a hook. Hooks come in variety of flavors, some of the more popular would include:

* News hook
* Contrary Hook
* Attack Hook
* Resource Hook
* Humour Hook

Here are several other blogs and definitions I will read later and summarise. These are 5 good posts to take a look at.

Wikipedia definition
Matt cuts blog
Aaron Wall SEO Book
Use Link Bait to Catch Better Rankings By Bill Hartzer
Jim Westergren blog on link baiting
Link Baiting & Effective Link Building by Rob Sullivan

It has been a little while since I have posted anything to the web ! In Fact it been a month or so !!!!

Well I have an excuse I have been busy over the past few weeks with many things but the biggest being moving house. Moving reminded me that “Packing up a house is the pits”.

As part of the move I was temporarily disconnected from the net which was quite disconcerting. Until someone or something takes away your access you do not realise how much you can use one form of communication so much that is be it for banking, investing , communication, or blogging sometimes I forget how much I use the web. Being disconnected was actually a good reminder.

Anyway I digress as usual, now that things have settle down a little I have decided to get back to work and update my web pages at

www.kenwong.com.au
www.hidedesigns.com.au

Begin with updating the theme of this blog.

So as usual after a little searching on my favourite search engine I found the word press theme viewer website

After browsing through the word press themes I discovered that most of the uploaded themes had a few strange non relevant links embeded in the footers.

I thought to my self does this mean that there are thousands of blogs out there with embedded links in them! I would imagine that most of these link salso stay embedde as most end users wouldn’t know how to edit them out of the code.I am not a html php freak so I can tell you I wouldn’t really know how to take them out.

So are these really free word press themes or do they come with a “price” embedded

This begs the question how many of these themes have embedded links?

I have taken around the site and I can tell you that all of the new templates have irrelevant links embedded. As a percentage I have absolutely no idea. Take a look for your self it is quite amazing.

How many of these themes are downloaded?

Well searching by most downloaded shows you just how mnay of the top templates are downloaded.
Tens of thousands, in fact we are talking hundreds of thousands.

How many of these themes are edited by the end user?

Well again i have no idea but I wouldn’t imagine that many are actually edited by the end user.

So if you want passive links from thousands of blogs then start creating good designed word press templates and upload into the word press theme viewer website.

If you have already done this drop me a line let me know how this went, is this ethical SEO link building, does this really work?

I am sure this isn’t a new technique but I just hadn’t realise that some of the links that are in these themes could be so random or rather irrelevant.

Seriously take a look you will be amazed by the types of links you will find in these templates.

Oh update:

This is a form of link baiting !

Not so sure this is an ethical style though. I mean a link back to your design site s fine but putting in links to ohter site that may be you SEO client is another thing altogether. Think I need to write a separate blog on link baiting..will do that tomorrow

Just trying to capture a number of articles and blog entries that will define Social Media / Network Network Marketing

Then go on to find out what the top tips are

Then go on to find out how this can be implemented by a company.?

This last question seems hard to me.

UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2007

UK Search Engine Marketing Report 2007

Marketers Increasingly Use Social Networking Sites

Social media marketing
and the good old trusty wikipedia

Social Media Marketing Tactics

Social Media Marketing, eh? Let’s See What’s in Our Bag o’ Goodies.

The Five Pillars of Social Media Marketing

Another list of questions about Search Engine Optimisation.
That i would liek to answer on my site one at a time?

If you have any further questions that you would like answered please send me an email or post a comment.

What is SEO ?
Why SEO optimize your site
What are the top ten SEO checklist?

Which SEO technique adds the most value
What is a keyword?
What is key word density?

Cheers
ken Wong
www.kenwong.com.au