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

SocMed Sean

In the end, I decided to create this post as the overview of each topic and an introduction. If I really need the functionality, could I replace it with a widget or some HTML? My Related Posts widget now is just a custom HTML widget with the links to my most popular posts that I gather from Google Analytics.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

You’d be surprised at how many existing links (both internal and external) may be pointing to incorrect or discontinued URLs. A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site.

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Pros And Cons Of Translating Your Blog Posts Into Other Languages

SocMed Sean

The Quick Overview: Translating your blog posts into other languages can have positive impacts on your search engine traffic. The benefit is the fact that it is pretty much “set it and forget it” Install the plugin, add the widget somewhere on your site that allows users to choose their language and the plugin does the rest.

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4 Ways to Embed Facebook Posts and Page Features on Your Site

Sprout Social

While plugins give you a wide range of features that can amp up engagement on your site, you can also manually embed posts in WordPress pages by pasting in a public post’s URL with specific shortcode. Facebook allows you to adjust the height and width of the send button as well as the referral tracking codes and absolute URL.

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Search Engine Optimization: Why We Still Need Meta Tags

Bill Hartzer

There is a great overview of all of the search engine rankings factors right here on SEOMoz. For example, you might create a spreadsheet with all of this data: URL. Or, if you have the meta data exported you can even crunch that data, add prices and photo URLs to it, and upload it into Google Product Search. Yes, I did.

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44 Powerful Marketing Tools for Facebook Ads, Websites, CRM and More

Jon Loomer

So here is an overview of the 44 tools that make this business go… Here are 44 marketing tools covering Facebook, website, CRM and more that make one business go… Click To Tweet. You get short codes, widgets and metrics. Pretty Link Lite : Every blog post has a long URL that includes the year, month and key words.

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3 simple ways to embed a Twitter Feed on your website

Sprout Social

Adding a Twitter embed widget to your website helps create a cohesive online identity and makes it easy for people to follow your online conversations in one place. You can embed a Twitter timeline feed or button on your website using the Twitter widget embed tool (listed below). One key to maximizing discoverability on Twitter?

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