Home About The Book Patterns Events Designing Social Interfaces Views Page Discussion View source History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Main Page From Social Patterns Jump to: navigation , search #What is this site? Contents 1 Social Patterns & Best Practices 1.1 Community 1.5.1 Community Management 1.5.3 Whats a pattern? Principles 1.1.1 Fundamental Principles 1.2 MORE >>

What really makes the platform as successful as it is, are the thousands of themes and plugins that the WordPress community contributes. These add ons turn what essentially is a blogging platform, into just about any type of site you want from community to content management systems to storefronts. The WP Greet Box plugin uses Ajax to automatically identify how your users found your blog articles, and displays the appropriate referrer message at the top welcoming them and suggesting they share accordingly. It truly is amazing. Very cool stuff.  Those are my favs.  MORE >>

To maximize the amount of our archive that visitors read, we need to know what content will best engage them and how best to display that content. What content should you feature on a blog archive? 37Signals’ blog Signal vs Noise also feature popular posts in a category, but theirs come from across the entire timespan of their archive: The flip side is that you can’t just show your hits in the archives, because some people may be there to find other content, as I explained above. Use AJAX to load posts or further archive pages in the same category (e.g. MORE >>

Visitors get more relevant and useful content, and you enjoy better statistics and more exposure. Think about it: Search engines are used to find your content. Feed readers are used to read your content. Social media is used to share, tag, and organize your content. People will always use external search engines like Google to find content on your site. Regardless of how you do it, improving your site’s default search functionality is a great way to help your visitors use your site and find the content they crave. Google-power your search results. MORE >>

Content Optimization. Every page on the website should have unique, high-quality content using proper optimization techniques. Homepages should have a bare minimum of one paragraph of keyword-rich content. Without quality content, Googlebot will have a tough time determining the relevance a page has to the keyword you want to target. Each page should employ a content hierarchy to establish importance of key phrases. Non-navigation links on pages should look natural to the content. Cloaking or duplicating content is a huge no-no for SEO. Summary. MORE >>