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Internet consultant Scott Hendison writes about technology, primarily search related.

Scott gets sites found on the internet, and he helps businesses with POS point of sale software & support, webhosting, website design, and HIPAA compliance. Sear

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  • Wordpress 2.82 May Hurt Rankings

    Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 14:55 in web hosting, SEO, wordpress, search engines

    I’ll bet you $1000 that if we took an existing and well established default site installation today, and first upgraded it to WP 2.82, then we set WP up correctly with our chosen SEO plug-ins, correct permalinks, etc. that we would LOSE ranking...

  • WordPress 2.82 – Changing URL is Bad

    Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 12:15 in wordpress

    In WordPress, the traditional behavior of the past few months has been that if you edit the Permalink of a page or post, the old URL will generate a 301 (permanent) redirect to the new URL. This action follows SEO best practices, and in general it fo...

  • Taking Nofollow to the Next Level

    Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 15:21 in SEO, wordpress, nofollow, nofollowizer, pagerank sculpting

    Almost two years ago at SMX Advanced 2007 I had a short talk with Matt Cutts about the nofollow tag being “okay to use”, and my last statement was something like this: “So there’s really no “over optimization” pen...

  • WordPress Checklist Now a Plug-In

    Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 07:41 in SEO, wordpress, plugin, cms, core tweaks, new blog setup

    I can’t even begin to count the number of WordPress blogs that I’ve set up personally, much less count how many have been done by various members of our team. Literally dozens of hours have been spent doing the same repetitive and mundan...

  • My Secret WordPress H1 Hack

    Posted on Monday December 22nd, 2008 at 13:28 in SEO, wordpress, h1, wp hack, header tag

    We use WordPress to build a lot of websites, not only because it’s so easy, but because it’s great for search engine optimization. However, when I began using it to build full sites as opposed to just supplementing existing sites with blo...