Make Your Blog Eye Catching With Favicon
Favicon is an icon for your blog. You can see icon on your browser address bar line. With this icon, your blog sound like pro. More benefit using this favicon is when your reader has lot of feeds, your blog will stand out from the crowd.
Having favicon on your blog is easy, you just need to create image file gif/jpg/png and save it as icon file (.ico) then upload it on your root server. Root server usually on public_html or htdocs directory. Once you have uploaded it, go to your WordPress admin, and choose theme editor. Find a file with name header.php and add this code bellow between <head> </head> tags.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”www.tipscollections.com/favicon.ico”>
<link rel=”icon” href=”www.tipscollections.com/favicon.ico”>
www.site.com or site.com
Blog can be accessed on two different ways with www.yourblog.com or yourblog.com. Both ways are good but you need to choose one of them as preferred domain which make search engine easy to recognize your blog. To set preferred domain for your blog, you need to register at www.google.com/webmaster/ and add your blog URL. After you add your blog URL, you need to set up which domain you prefer to be preferred domain on Google webmaster.
One you setup your preferred domain on Google webmaster, now you need to add 301 redirect on your blog. This is important coz you need to redirect your URL to preferred domain URL. To redirect your blog you need to add this code bellow on your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.yourblogname\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourblogname.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Use Permalinks to Improve Your SEO
WordPress has default setting how to show your blog URL. Permalinks is one of function that allows you to setup your URL link style. If your permalinks setting still on default value, your post URL will be like this.
http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=number
Permalinks setting need to be well optimize for SEO. With this default setting, your blog result on search engine will be like above. Let’s try to change this permalinks setting to custom structure and add this code bellow on custom box.
/index.php/%postname%.html
With this setting, your post URL will be change like this.
http://www.yourblogname.com/your-post-tittle.html
So is not too late to change your permalinks setting and make it SEO friendly.
Title Optimization
Have you try look on Google if your site has been indexed? Try add this keyword on Google “site:yoursite.com”, it will show your indexed page. Check on your indexed page title. It will show
“Blog Name >> Blog Archive >> Post Title”
Look funny right? And how about this
“Post Title – Blog Name”
Isn’t that cool?
Let me show you how to edit that title. Go to admin area, then go to presentation >> theme editor, choose header.php. Find this line
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
Now change it to:
<title><?php wp_title(); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> – <?php } ?> <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title>
Save it! Now let’s check the different, go to your blog and click on your post. The title will change to “Post Title – Blog Name”
Add Some Page
WordPress have the ability to add some page on your blog. You can add some page like about me page, contact us page or advertise page. This function quite useful for me to optimized my blog page.
Ping list Improve Your Visibility
When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the following site like search engine or other RSS feed that your blog has been update. WordPress inform service by sending small package which call ping. When service receive ping from your blog, each service robot will automatically crawl your blog page in a minute. By default WordPress only have one ping list service but can add several ping lists to your blog here.
Full RSS or Not
WordPress have the ability to manage your feed page. Feed can be manage on how much post you want to show and how you want to show full or summary for each article. The problem is if you choose to show full article, reader doesn’t have to come to your blog to read your post but if you show summary feed, reader who interesting with your post will be force come to your blog if they want read the full article. Is up to you to decide whatever you give summary feed or full feed for your reader.
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good idea………………
Everyone should put a favicon. It dosen’t take too much time and it’s good in the long run! Thanks for sharing those tips!