SEO or Search engine optimization  is very important and every website has to be optimized for SEO to get high rankings. However, there are many useless factors that do not even make any necessary influence on your website or blog. I will list 10 facts, which may be considered as unnecessary tips for SEO.

Fact 1. Submit URLs to search engines. It is no longer necessary to submit your website URL or any other link to search engines to make it visible. Just get a back link from any other website and your website will be reachable for everyone.

Fact 2. You must have a Google sitemap. If you have correctly made website, there is no need to have a sitemap. If you have sitemap it doesn’t  hurt your website or blog, and it is not necessary because it won’t get you better rankings.

Fact 3. Update your site frequently. Updating your site doesn’t mean you have to change something. Frequent updates will not increase your rankings. Updating your content is a great way to get back links and all the back links may get you better rankings.

Fact 4. Pay per click advertisements will increase or decrease rankings. People say that Google Adwords may increase rankings but there are many more people who say that Adwords may decrease blog’s or website’s rankings. Neither of the propositions are true.

Fact5. Your blog will be banned if you do not follow Google guidance. Everyone can read Google Webmaster’s guidelines. If you do not try Black hat SEO tips your website will not lose rankings.

Fact 6. If you buy links your website will get a ban. It is not true because if you buy links your website will never be banned from Google. Your website may get better rankings only. They do not allow to participate in link schemes. People can buy or sell links because it is a part of internet business.

Fact 7. Use H1 for better rankings. It is very hard to prove that keywords in H1 tags make any effect for search engine rankings. Many tests have been made and none of them showed that keywords in H1 tags affect rankings. It is up to you to decide because it is a doubtful fact.

Fact 8. Use meta keywords on your page. Home keywords or meta keywords are ignored by Google and do not make any effect. This is really funny to read posts that meta keywords can help you get visitors but this is an old fact.

Fact 9. Use 250 words in post to get better rankings for SEO. It is absolutely untruth and it’s not necessary to write 250 words or more to get better rankings. Even short stories get great rankings because of back links.

Fact 10. Optimize for long keyword phrases. This fact is not true because you will not be competitive for long keyword phrases. It is good to optimize for short keywords or for two, three words in length. It is also great to make keyword phrases in bold in your text.

I hope these untrue facts will help you understand the facts about SEO and its rankings.

I have found a great story about making money online and the ways to do it. The story has been promoted on electronic library. I am not a beginner in making money online so it was very interesting to read what others can tell about it and what the true is.

The author has told about money making schemes and scams so i was really interested in his post. After spending some time I haven’t got any new information about the schemes to make money and scams. But i know there are many young guys who don’t even know anything about these schemes. Even real businessmen can fail because it is very simple. At first sight everything looks auspicious but the true is different. Just read the real story about schemes to make money and try not to fail.

Well, as I said every user has to protect himself and no one is responsible for you. The internet is full of cheaters so it is very important to know how to protect yourself against scam. You will never get something good or valuable for free or for nothing. You will always have to invest to make money so do not even try to believe that you will make money if you click on a link “make easy money for free”.

Try to keep in mind these signs of a scam and protect yourself against it.  I hope this post will help everyone to keep the money in your pocket.

10 Must Use SEO Tips for Wordpress,

While it is often mentioned that WordPress has been designed to be SEO friendly out of the box, there are quite a few tweaks that you can make to your installation to guarantee that your blog will be on a higher level above many others. Implement these 10 SEO tips for WordPress below and you will definitely see a boost in the search engine results.

1. Use a Sitemap Generator. Sitemaps inform the search engines where your content is located, which helps get it indexed properly and as a result visits to your website. Sitemaps are a crucial element of any website’s SEO strategy and blogs are no exception. Creating a sitemap in WordPress is a painless process. Simply install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, set it up and you’re ready to go. Even though it’s called a Google sitemap generator, the sitemaps it can generate are also formatted for the other popular search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. This plugin will rebuild your XML sitemap automatically, notifying the search engines of new content in need of crawling.

2. Use Pretty Permalinks. Permalinks are the permanent links which are produced for each post on your blog. By default, WordPress sets your permalinks to: http://w w w.domain.com/?p=1234. By customizing the permalinks, you can make the URL more suitable for search engines and have a link such as: http://w w w.domain.com/category/the-post-title/. To edit the way in which your permalinks appear, log into your admin panel and select Options -> Permalinks. Enter /%category%/%postname%/ under the custom field and then click on update permalink structure. While this should be enough for the average user, if you’re looking for additional options to customize your permalinks then take a look at the Advanced Permalinks plugin.

3. Check for the Proper Use of Header Tags. Your blog title and main keyword needs to be in a <h1> tag. Should your subtitle have keywords as well, then it is possible to place it in a <h2> tag. If not, then it is a good idea to place it in a non-header tag such as <div>. All of your blog post titles should be placed in <h2> tags, and section titles in the sidebar should preferably be in either <h3> tags or non-header tags. Not all themes are mindful of these recommendations, and so you may have to manually adjust the theme you are using to take advantage of this SEO tactic.

4. Don’t Forget Traditional SEO Practices. In the end, a WordPress blog is a website like any other and so standard SEO strategies must be kept in mind. These include bolding your keywords at sensible times, building incoming backlinks, ensuring that you’re writing quality content, and so on. When checking for keyword density, you may find the Keyword Statistics plugin useful.

5. Integrate Social Media Services. Including social networking links allows your visitors to promote your top quality blog posts. Social websites are a terrific way to effortlessly build links, along with generating targeted traffic to your website. You can use popular plugins such as AddToAny, Sociable, or ShareThis to easily integrate social bookmarking services into your blog.

6. Install a SEO Plugin for Automatic Optimization. You can quickly automate SEO optimization of your blog by using All-in-One SEO or HeadSpace2. Both are excellent plugins, and while All-in-One SEO has a shorter learning curve and is compatible with most WordPress plugins, some feel that HeadSpace2 allows for more customization.

7. Use Pinging. Pinging is a way to notify bots that your blog has new or updated content. By default, WordPress will ping a central site, Ping-o-matic, which will then ping a collection of others. To add more services, go to the admin panel and select Options > Writing. Consider adding popular pinging services such as Google Blog Search, which is http:// blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2.

8. Make Use of the Title and ALT Attributes in Links. It’s important to take advantage of these two attributes in your links. Also, by using a plugin like SEO Friendly Images you can automatically have all of your images optimized with alt and title attributes.

9. Use an Optimized Robots.txt File. You want to make sure you block certain directories from search engine bots and direct them to the content that you want them to crawl. This can be done manually if you’re familiar with the robots.txt file, but I recommend you use iRobots.txt SEO (IRSEO) to get the job done.

10. Link Within Your Blog. Interior linking helps with the general crawling of your blog, and it also keeps your readers focused on your content. One way to create keyword-rich anchor text for internal linking is by using the SEO Smart Links plugin.

Melissa Tamura writes about online degrees for the Zen College Life blog. She most recently wrote about the best nursing schools in the USA.

Just a week ago I had many problems with my blog. Seems like it was hacked or infected with malware/badware. And it was the first time I have had so many problems with it. Every time I tried to open my website ESET Nod32 blocked pages from loading. I could not even edit any WordPress file using Cute FTP professional. I had to find a solution to clean my blog so I will give you several tips how to clean your infected website (mostly Wordpress blogs).

Almost all WordPress files were infected. I have downloaded them all and scanned with Anti Virus software.

All infected files were .php and .html only and if you take a look at the code of the original file and infected one you will see that there is an added code/virus.

Virus code

< script type=”text/javascript”>eval(String.fromCharCode(118,97…50,55))

Also some files were infected with this code:

< !– ad –>< script>function ixtdoyiepvo..cygw3E”.replace(/sqncygw/g, “”));< !– /ad –>

Virus removal

You may remove the virus from your site by deleting the codes mentioned above. You will have to clean all WordPress files but it takes time and requires your attention. I have deleted all files via FTP and uploaded the new ones. I also checked all HTML and PHP files. The easiest way is to delete old files and upload the new ones.Remember to check all folders under domain name.

Do not forget to check all your files manually to be sure that all files are clean. Also recheck your .htaccess file if it is not corrupted. I do not know how this the website was infected but i offer to change your ftp password as well.

URL structure is important for any Wordpress blog if you want to tell readers more about the post and content. I remember that I have read about structure of the URL and which structure may be the best. I have found many suggestions and all of them were very similar. I know that it is really hard to decide what URL structure to use so I will try to share my ideas to help you with it.

Bloggers always ask what structure to use and which one is the best. They also care about the page rank and how it flows within a site. Well, what is a negative side of the structure domainname(.)com/year/month/day/post-name/? If a user finds interesting information it is very good but the main thing is that he can see the date of the post. And we don’t want our visitors to look for a newer version of the article we want him to stay on our site as long as possible. This structure makes URL a little bit uglier. Just take a simple URL structure domainname(.)com/post-name. That is very easy for users to remember and it is very simple URL.

Another question is “has this to do with how page rank flows within a site?”. Google doesn’t worry about how deep a set of directories is. Matt Cutts has admitted it. So if you had your root page and you linked directly to a very deep page, that page would still get the PageRank from the root page. I am not sure about the Yahoo or Bing but Google doesn’t really worry about that very much.

It would be fine to have year/month/day in terms of the PageRank would still flow within a site just fine based on links. So you wonder which way to use? It is kinda up to you.

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At first sight a short list of “related posts” shouldn’t make any negative impact on your website. That is why people create plugins to show related posts and to keep visitors on your website as long as possible. There are no negatives as long as it is a short list but if you have a list of 200 links it may impact your website.

To have two or five links is not so bad and there is no need to be afraid that you may lose your page rank. Users can find that really helpful. I use “related posts” plugin on my blog for a long time so users can find useful related posts. This way they can spend more time browsing your website.

You can look in Google Analytics and find your bounce rate. That can tell you a lot about your website. Things like “related posts” give people a good reason to stay on your site and help them explore and find more of the great content on your site.

In my opinion, it is very useful. Just think about Youtube. You can watch any video you want and then you see all of these related videos on the right side. So you can entice people to spend more time on your website and show related videos or related posts, that can be a great thing for them. People can learn more and it could be a good thing for you as well.