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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

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Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. you need a good tool to redirect user from an out-of-date URL to a new one, check out the Redirection plugin for WordPress.

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Using SEO To Grow Traffic And Increase Enrollment In Your Massive Open Online Course Or MOOC

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It can be if you understand that good content that is optimized for the search engines can help prospective students find your course and it can also convince them to enroll. Don’t try to stuff keywords into your content in order to make it more attractive to the search engines. This means typing in “Facebook” or “ESPN”.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

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If you are setting up a new instance of WordPress, take a moment to think through what you want your URL structure to look like. Do you want to include the month and year in your URL? By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure. Do you just want to include the post slug?

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Pros And Cons Of Translating Your Blog Posts Into Other Languages

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The Quick Overview: Translating your blog posts into other languages can have positive impacts on your search engine traffic. The effort, cost, and potential negative impacts to your search engine rankings will probably not justify the minimal traffic increase. Yes…negative SEO impacts because of translating your content.

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Tech Tip: 3 Simple Things You Can Do To Improve The Backend Of Your Site

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To get you started on the right track, here are 3 simple ways to make the management of your website/blog backend much simpler: URL Rewriting The Apache server has a mode rewrite module which will give you the opportunity to effectively redirect one URL to another. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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2011 Round-Up Of My Social Media Cartoons And Comics

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Some readers have asked for permission to use them in blog posts and presentations and the answer is “Yes” as long as you keep the attribution and the URL to my blog. In case you missed them, here are links to all my 2011 social media comics in one post. You Want Me To Turn Off Twitter? What’s The Point?

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5 Easy Ways to Organically Increase Your App Downloads and Lift Rankings

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The second aspect of the optimization is optimizing the app for the search engine results. These reviews and rankings are one of the more important criteria that search engines use to identify positions in search results. One bonus tip would be to use your brand name in the URL of your download page for an additional signal boost.