Wordpress 3.2 released

Wordpress 3.2 released - Faster, Lighter and BETTER

Finally something was done to Wordpress loading speeds. I'm using both Blogger and Wordpress blogs, and Wordpress has always been very slow. (Yes, I know that there are plugins that should speed up things, but I like to have less plugins.)

Wordpress 3.2 -  Changelog Highlights

• Refreshed Administrative UI - Admin redesign
• New Default Theme "Twenty Eleven" - Uses the latest Theme Features
• Full Screen Editor - Distraction free writing experience
• Extended Admin Bar - More useful links to control the site

• Requirements Changes -
  • PHP 5.2.4 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.5 was PHP 4.3 or greater)
  • MySQL 5.0.15 or greater (old requirement - since WordPress 2.9 was MySQL 4.1.2 or greater)

• Enhanced Browser Compatibility -
  • Drop Internet Explorer 6 support
  • Start End-of-life (EOL) cycle for Internet Explorer 7
  • Browse Happy notify users of out-of-date browser

• WordPress is Faster and Lighter -
  • Faster page loads -- We've gone through the most commonly loaded pages in WP and done improvements to their load time
  • Faster Upgrades -- The update system now support incremental upgrades so after 3.2 you'll find upgrading faster than ever
  • Optimizations to WP_Filesystem -- Updates over FTP are now much quicker and less error prone
  • Stream downloads to the filesystem -- Improves update times and lowers the memory footprint
  • Performance improvements for wptexturize()
  • Remove PHP4 compatibility including timezone support
  • More efficient term intersection queries
  • Some optimizations in the HTML sanitizer (kses)
  • Speed optimizations for is_serialized_string()
  • Cache the Dashboard RSS Widgets HTML output to reduce unnecessary Ajax requests as well as the memory footprint
  • And many other improvements and tweaks

Whole list of changes is available here.

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Google Doesn't Give a Shit About Your Content

Why would someone set up a regular website?

If you want to gain visitors to your site. Only way to do so, is to add a blog. You can set a new blog up with few clicks. Then you need to make three crappy blog posts to get your site indexed.

Since 2004 there has been no reason to set up a regular website. Google doesn't give a shit about your website, or the content that you have on your website. You gain much more visitors by making a new blog post instead, rather than trying to update your old pages.

I have a PR2 website with hundreds of pages unique content, and it doesn't get nearly as much visitors as any of my PR0 blogs. Yes, my site has been optimized for search engines, and it's fast, and pretty much ad free. It also gets regular updates.

My blogs are filled with ads, not too many backlinks (about 20x less), and not much original content. Still my blogs gets much more visitors, and higher search results.

I love Google.

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Google Wordpress Plugin for Webmaster Tools verification

Google Site Verification Plugin - New Wordpress Extension

Google has released their own(?) Wordpress blog extension for Webmasters with self-hosted Wordpress blogs. You can now verify your Wordpress blog to Google's Webmaster Tools service by using "Google Site Verification Plugin". Plugin (extension) only works on self-hosted Wordpress blogs, not with blogs hosted on wordpress.com (aka free Wordpress blogs)

After you have verified your blog, you can access your blog statistics and information on Google Webmaster Tools.

Download: Google Site Verification Plugin (Wordpress Extensions)

Source: Google Webmaster Central Blog

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Best of SEO Links - Today's Picks

I've spend most of my day reading various tweets, and 99% of the tweets are all lies and marketing crap, but sometimes you land on to pages that are worth bookmarking.

Here is a list of sites I've found worth bookmarking


Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Company Blog

10 Tips for Posting on Your Brand’s Facebook Page

109 Ways to Make Your Business Irresistible to the Media

SEO Checklist: 60 essential checks before launching a website

10 Reasons Your Site Isn’t Getting Enough Traffic (and How To Fix Each)


I'm still not a Twitter Fan. See my related post:

Twitter promoting is a joke - No SEO Value

Always looking out more people to follow on Twitter. Also taking suggestions who to follow.

Thanks again for reading my blog.

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Follow Up - 5 More Ways To Use Old Blog Posts

Another 5 Good Reasons To Use Your Old Blogs Posts

I promised yesterday on Twitter to add 5 more tips how to use your old blog posts to get more visitors. I got some nice tips from other users as well.

Social Media

Maybe you wrote something before joining the social media sites. Share your older posts on Twitter, Facebook etc too,. I’d say never post your article more than once per social media site. I will personally ignore all sites that spam their article more than once. You will only hurt your reputation by spamming same links, and people will stop following you.


Link To Other Blogs

Did other blogger made a similar post. Write a comment and add link to your blog. He will more likely to allow your comment, or even edit his/her blog to include your link. This is a great way to create new contacts. Never use automated comment generator. You will only lose your money, and reputation.

Or you could do a pingback to his/her blog, by editing your older post. It is always cool to add links to other blogs too. Other bloggers use Search Analytics as much as you do, and If you bring them enough traffic. They will link back to you..


Use Titles and Subtitles


These are crucial and make sure you make them interesting, and remember to add keyword or two to the title. I’d always go for interesting rather than keyword filled.

Top lists

Create top lists from your older blogs. This is fast, easy and works 99% of time. People love top lists. Of course you need to have enough previous blog posts to create such lists.

When was the last time you wrote more than one interesting article a day? Would you follow an user that post dozens of messages a day?


Fresh Ideas

Read your older blogs and see if you can find fresh ideas. Maybe you could extend one article and do a follow up part? Create a video, and same time expand your blog to new media (Youtube)...


See my other 5 reasons to edit old blog posts - and why it's good SEO wise

Do you have even more good ways how to use your old blog posts? I'm listening.

Learning SEO on Twitter! Follow me!

Finally on Twitter!

I'm excited to see how Twitter helps my blog. I’m hoping to get more great contacts and help. If you have some nice Twitter stories to share. Let me know.

Follow Learning SEO Blog on Twitter, and submit your tips:

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Top-5 Blogger Tips - Maximize Visibility

How To Get More Love To Your Blog

Five easy steps that will help your blog to get more love from search engines. This guide works best on Blogger (Blogspot), but all of these are relevant with Wordpress and other blogs too.

1. Blog Title - Short, Sweet and Simple

Title should be around 60 characters (Search engines usually show only up to 60 characters) and to contain keywords that your blog has. Title is one of the most important search engine search terms, and title "Welcome to my blog" isn't the most used search term.

You can edit your blog title from design –> Title (Blogger)

2. Blog Description - Make it interesting!

Write a short description what your site is about. Don't go over 160 characters. Write the description to humans (not for search engines) and don't fill it with nonsense. Nobody wants to click your site, if it has description that doesn't make any sense. You can write more about your blog to About Me section...See next point


Design –> Description (Blogger)

3. About Me

It's usually a good thing to tell something about yourself and goals of your blog. After all readers want to know that there is a real person behind your blog.

4. Blogroll - Extra value

Find other blogs that are similar to yours (topic wise) and add them to your Blogroll. With Blogroll you get a better pagerank (thanks to backlinking). I wouldn’t add famous blogs, focus on smaller blogs and you will get your site to their Blogroll much easier. Avoid adding autogenerated sites and blogs that are not on same the topic. You get extra value when using "preview snipped" on. Your site can be found from those keywords too!

Design -> Page elements -> Add a gadget –> Blogroll or Blog links (Blogger)

5. Labels - Never too late

If your older blog posts doesn't contain labels. You should add them now! Labels work as keywords to most search engines. They also help user to find similar topics from your previous blog posts more easily.

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Remember to read my Blog post about "How To Make a Perfect Blog Post"

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SEO - Pick of the Day - PDF Optimizing

Once you have finished updating your blog or/an website to the max. You should start to optimizing your files too.

I have searched some blogs today to find new tips how to optimize my pages, and for some reason I landed to PDF optimizing blog post.  5 Ways To Optimize Your PDF For SEO. 

Plenty of other interesting blog posts too. Gonna take some more coffee, and continue reading. :)

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Matt Cutts, Man Against Spam

Matt Cutts - Google's Webspam Guru

Just wanted to let you know about one of my fav blogs: "Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO". Matt is the head of Google’s Webspam team, and his blog gives you nice info about how Google is fighting against spam, and how he feels about SEO, Gadgets and many other things.

Any other good SEO blogs out there?

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Fast visibility

Fast Google Visibility

I want fast visibility

I have two words: Social Media. Google really loves social media. Your blog posts etc. can be found instantly via Google. Social media is also a very cheap way to get more customers. Most of the social media services are free anyway. It might take some time to get all the services up and running, but it's worth it. If you have Google or Facebook account already, you can link to many social sites easily, and you don't have to register to each site.

Create videos. Youtube is another easy way to get more visitors + you get free advertising for your product(s) anyway. Basic videos can be done very easily with todays tools (hint: search Google), and uploading to YouTube is easy as ABC.

Remember to always use separate Email account when promoting your site. You will get a lot of spam, and it's pretty much a battle you will lose.

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How To Earn Money By Blogging - Lesson 2

Lesson 2: Use SEO service to get more visitors.  

STOP! No SEO service can magically make more visitors to your site. Only way to get more visitors is to write quality content that people will start to link. Otherwise you're just spending money for nothing.


There are ways to promote your site for free. If you want more visitors: comment on similar blogs, use a signature that has your blog address (emails, forums etc...)...use your blog address everywhere you think that it's helpful to others. Whatever you do....DO NOT SPAM!

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How To Earn Money By Blogging - Lesson 1

Lesson 1: 

There is no easy way. If you think you can make money by spending just 15minutes a day writing your blog, you are wrong. Most of the SEO marketing sites that provide tips are earning their money by selling cheap Ebooks, that promises you everything you have ever wanted. "Read this and you will earn $5000/month in no time". Save some money, and use your head.

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