By default, any links you have in your WordPress comment section have nofollow attribute. Removing nofollow attribute from links in comment section would encourage your visitors to post comments. That is because it provides backlinks to their websites. Would you remove nofollow attribute from links in comments? If the answer is yes, this tutorial is for you. This tutorial will show you how to do this without install a WordPress plugin.
Using images in your article provides better user experience and engagement. Image can also bring good traffic to your website from search engine. Thus, image plays an important role to your website’s SEO and help you rank higher. In this article, you will learn how to optimize your image for your website.
Adding Twitter Follow Button on your website makes it easy for your visitors to find your profile and follow you on Twitter directly with just a click. This will allow you to have more followers, more users, more traffic, and more engagement to your website.
What is this button do? When people click on this button, they will be able to see your twitter account information such as following/follower and a few Tweets, and then they can follow you on Twitter.
The following instruction will show you how to add this button to your website:
Step 1: Login to your Twitter account
Step 2: Go to https://publish.twitter.com/
[Continue Reading…]It’s important to ensure that all links on your website are accessible and functional. However, there’s always a possibility that your visitors may click on a non-existent link and end up on the 404 Error page.
When this happens, your visitors may become disoriented and leave your website, resulting in a loss of traffic. To prevent this, it’s a good idea to customize your 404 Error page with helpful information instead of relying on the default page or not having one at all.
[Continue Reading…]According to Google, your website URL structure is displayed in a breadcrumbs-like format on mobile search result.
This is to help mobile searchers to understand your website better. Having a well URL structure is important. If you are using WordPress and your site is new, you should update your permalink to use the following link structure
/%category%/%postname%/To update your permalink, you can login and update at “Settings -> Permalinks” as follow and click “Save Changes“
Adding a Facebook Like button to your WordPress website will allow your visitors to like and share your content on Facebook. You can add this Facebook Like button with this plugin or manually modify your template. In this article, we will show you how to do it by adding it to your WordPress template manually.
Step 1: Open the Facebook Like button configuration page
Step 2: Scroll down to “Like Button Configurator” to configure your Facebook Like button layout and size. You can leave the “URL to Like” box empty. The URL will be dynamically generated when a user click like
[Continue Reading…]Adding SSL certificates to your website is now important. This will enable your visitors to communicate with your website securely. Since Google now consider SSL as one of its ranking factors, this implementation will help improve your SEO ranking.
The following instruction is for WordPress site on AWS that was deployed using Bitnami stack.
Step 1: Login to your AWS server using a SSH client
Step 2: Install Git
sudo apt-get install gitAfter you installed an SSL certificate for your domain, you may want to re-direct your visitors from http:// to https://. This will help your webpage load securely. Now, google search ranking also supports https://, this will also help your SEO.
You can modify your .htaccess file and add the following code to the beginning of your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</IfModule>Your .htaccess file needs to be in the root folder of your website to make it works.
For SEO purposes, the best permalink structure is the one that is simple and clean. For WordPress, either one of the following is best:
/%postname%/Or
/%category%/%postname%/Here at www.clipsify.com, we use the first one because each post may have multiple categories.
For consistency and SEO purposes, this will prevent Google from indexing both www and non-www domain version of your site and avoid duplicated content issue. I prefer to re-direct from non-www to www, so here is my code that I’m using on clipsify.com. Just copy and past into your .htaccess file and it will work right away.
# Redirect from non-www to www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# End Redirect from non-www to www
