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Free WordPress Plugin: “100 SEO tips”

Boris Written on 19th February 2008                                                                                                              34 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

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Last week I was browsing through our WordPress Admin here and noticed the “Hello Dolly” plugin. This is a plugin that comes pre-installed with every WordPress install. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. As you can imagine this isn’t a very useful plugin. Then I decided to take the “Hello Dolly” plugin and make it do something useful: display tips.

I wrote a blog post on my personal blog and sent an update to Twitter asking for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tips. Then I opened up a Google Spreadsheet where people could insert and edit the tips. Within 30 minutes I had received hundreds of tips from several friendly SEO experts (complete list below). Together we wrote, collected and fine-tuned more than 250 tips. We ended up with a nice collection of exactly “100 SEO Tips” which is also the title of the Plugin we launch today.

Even if you know a lot about SEO this plugin is still fun to install. It reminds you, casually, of what you already know but sometimes forget. So, install it, share it, link back here and if you have a few tips of your own please do share them with us so we can include them in the next version of the plugin.

Download: http://thenextweb.org/100-seo-tips.zip
Install: Download the plugin, unzip, upload to server in directory /wp-content/plugins/ and then activate in Wordpress Management. Tips will appear in top right corner of WordPress admin.

Please let us know if you installed it by leaving a comment here with your blog url! Or even better, blog about it and and send us a trackback.

Special thanks to the following people who helped collect the tips: David Petherick, Joop Dorresteijn, Nikki Pilkington , Joery Bruijntjes, Gerben Bouwhuis and Eduard Blacquière .

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About the author: Serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. Current activities include TwitterCounter.com & this Blog. Boris is also very active on Twitter: @Boris

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  2. By Joop on Feb 19, 2008

    Nice work Boris,
    These web collaborations could be useful for more broad knowledge issues. It goes way further than a old fashioned website poll!

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  3. By Frank Meeuwsen on Feb 19, 2008

    Download, upload and install. And then started refreshing my wp-admin area for the tips :-) Thanks, nice addition!

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  4. By gerben on Feb 19, 2008

    Nice! Have to plug it in, but posted it first.

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  5. By gerben on Feb 19, 2008

    Hi Boris,

    If you update it. Please, make sure to target=”_blank” hyperlinks. Now i’m leaving my wordpress editor along hitting the most interesting hyperlinks.

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  6. By Joost de Valk on Feb 19, 2008

    Great idea Boris! A slight bit of feedback though:

    About the URL’s, consider using dashes between the words. not ‘%20′ or ‘_’

    %20 is not the best option indeed, but as far as Google is concerned,underscores are just as good as dashes. Also, since this is displaying in WordPress, it might be a bit weird as WordPress does the dash by default.

    Always use “alt” and “title” tags for images, flash objects and links.

    I simply do not agree that this is always necessary. If your anchor text on a link is descriptive, there’s no need of adding a title tag IMHO.

    Break larger pages into two or more smaller ones.

    Why? People will do this and maintain the same title, this would NOT be wise from an SEO perspective.

    Browsers allow for bad html code, SE spiders are a different beast.

    It seems like you’re saying SE spiders can handle bad code… Well surprise: they’re not. The same goes as did for the dashes as well: WordPress doesn’t even allow you to write bad code, so this is probably not really in it’s place.

    If you have a blog, start investing some time in community marketing, use blog friends for Facebook, and submit to Twitter.

    and

    Start a blog, search engines like fresh content. Actually, they LOVE it.

    Well ehm, I’ve installed this plugin, so I guess I have a blog, right? :)

    I’d go over all advice in the plugin a second time, either yourself or with a real SEO, and make sure you’re not telling people stuff that isn’t true, or irrelevant…

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  7. By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Feb 19, 2008

    @joost I will invite you to the speadsheet so you can edit all you want!

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  8. By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Feb 19, 2008

    @gerben updated it right away. All links are opening in new windows now…

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  9. By gerben on Feb 19, 2008

    @Boris,
    Thanx.

    @joost,
    http://www.seoking.nl/undersco.....teken-seo/ they discovered once that using a – gives more semilar results in search engines than using a _. In that way it could be better to use – instead of _. Don’t you agree?

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  10. By Joost de Valk on Feb 19, 2008

    Nope: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-24-n83.html

    Reply

  11. By gerben on Feb 19, 2008

    Than i still think it’s weird that at http://www.google.nl/search?hl.....sluitingen the page http://www.verzekeringen-onlin.....tingen.php doesn’t show up at all?

    (i know it used to be worse at all!)

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  12. By oeroek on Feb 20, 2008

    It is a funny plugin indeed. I love the concept that you extracted form hello dolly. Great use of the mother of all plugins.

    But keep the ads out.

    “Buy 299 Steps to Website Heaven. An invaluable guide to SEO for the SME”

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  13. By oeroek on Feb 20, 2008

    Before somebody thinks that I post ads, my post above actually quotes a tip from the top 100. I posted the tip (that included html code). My apologies.

    Reply

  14. By Joost de Valk on Feb 20, 2008

    Gerben: It is indexed though!

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  15. By gerben on Feb 20, 2008

    Hi Joost,

    I told you it was worse before, but it’s still strange that google doesn’t rank that page. The page normally ranks perfect.

    So, i would also prefer – over _.

    Reply

  16. By Ayman van Bregt on Feb 20, 2008

    Great plugin, smart thought, excellent execution!

    Thanks!

    Reply

  17. By adam on Feb 20, 2008

    Boris, that’s a real ‘mini SEO constitution’ for me as a newbie in this world. Thanks!

    Reply

  18. By adriaan verstijnen on Feb 26, 2008

    Cool! Heb net 500 keer mijn wordpress-dashboard gerefreshed en volgens mij heb ik alle tips, inderdaad, verwerkt in het keyword strategy document voor een van onze klanten. Een goeie cross-check ;)
    Daag!!!

    Reply

  19. By Besplatne Stvari Samo najbolje on Mar 1, 2008

    Great plugin, smart thought, excellent execution!

    Thanks!

    Reply

  20. By John on Mar 7, 2008

    Great plugin, its more usefull that dolly plugin :) You done a great jobs.
    Thanks u so much !

    Reply

  21. By manele noi on Mar 8, 2008

    Great plugin, excellent execution!

    Reply

  22. By SEO Australia on Mar 10, 2008

    Excellent idea!! Will install it….. Thanks!

    Reply

  23. By Squeaky on Mar 13, 2008

    Nice idea for a plugin. I am curious to see how many of them I know or have forgotten.

    Reply

  24. By Aurelius Tjin on Apr 30, 2008

    Thanks for the heads up. It really pays to be updated with the latest news on technology and keep abreast with the innovations.

    Reply

  25. By Wordpress SEO Plugin on Sep 12, 2008

    These are excellent SEO tips for the Wordpress blogging platform. I also really enjoy using the category base killer to remove the /category/ part in permalinks and the yet another relevant post plugin to provide relevant\related posts underneath every post; it’s a great way to boost your internal linking. You should try those two out, make sure if you use the category base killer to 301 redirect old urls!

    Reply

  26. By Adi on Nov 12, 2008

    Nice post !! Thanks for sharing.

    Reply

  27. By Trabajo Llobregat on Jan 10, 2009

    Thanks, i have included this plugin in my page, when finish i return and paste my site url :)

    Reply

  28. By Pilar on Jan 26, 2009

    Gracias, lo acabo de instalar en mi sitio

    Reply

  29. By Josh on May 23, 2009

    Definitely beats Hello Dolly and it helped me FLY up the rankings.

    Reply

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