A new WordPress plugin (called the ‘SEO Alt Tag Optimizer‘) has been developed that allows a website owner to make full use of the Image Alt tags to assist in improving your search engine rankings through the effective utilisation of established and proven search engine optimization techniques.
What this plugin does, is that is creates 3 images on every page of your WordPress site, and populated these images ALT tags with different combinations of the following blog strings:
- WordPress Site’s Name
- WordPress Site’s Description
- WordPress Page’s Title (if you are on homepage, category page or archives page)
- WordPress Post’s Title (if you are on a single post page)
The uniqueness and second benefit of this plugin is that the 3 images are also used to allow your web site visitors to increase the font size, decrease the font size or to return the font size back to the default size. This assists any visitor with any accessibility difficulties to read your web site without having to change their own browser’s viewing settings.
This plugin helps to increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score by up to 5%, but it is also a fully working font re-sizer tool.
You can read more background on this plugin here: SEO Alt Tag Optimizer & Font Resizer Tool (WordPress plugin)
A new version of the Google Sitemaps – Append UTW Tags plugin has been released (v2.0b) to automatically append all the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) tags onto the end of your Google XML sitemap (sitemap.xml) file.
This WordPress 2.0, 2.1 & 2.2 compatible plugin saves your site administrator in having to manually add the URLs of all the tag pages each time you add a new UTW tag onto a new post.
This release automatically reads all the necessary UTW settings and associated tag tables so that no configuration changes are necessary to execute this time-saving plugin.
For further information on the plugin, visit Google Sitemaps – Ultimate Tag Warrior – Tag Addon for WordPress
Written on 25 May 2007
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WordPress has just be updated to version 2.0.6. I updated my blog site using the excellent script from markjaquith.wordpress.com.
Mark’s zip file only contains the core WordPress files that have been updated, and installation is a breeze – a lot more easier that WordPress’s own upgrade instructions!!! It’s well worth a look and will save plenty of backup and upgrade administration time.
All my plugins appear to be working as expected – but it is early days.
My blog is hosted on Apache with mod_php so I also used Mark’s Feedburner fix to correct this issue.
Whilst on my weekly search engine optimisation (SEO) tasks, I am really getting the feeling that the Google bot is way behind the other search engines bot for identifying and indexing back-links.
I use WebSEO as my SEO tool, and this tool reports on the following back-link data:
- Altavista: 546 links to my blog
- Google: 5 links
- HotBot: was 4349 links but sadly dropped to 28 links (scratching my head on this one…)
- Yahoo: 1005 links
- Windows Live (MSN): 4324 links
This blog has been operational since August 2006 so Google has had plenty of time to catch up. Maybe the latest news about all the Google data-centers being full to capacity may have some bearings?
I use Technorati to publish my blog feeds and it today records:
These 56 links can be seen at Dicontas Blog Links from Technorati.
The msnbot does a really quick job at keeping up with all my blog changes, so why not google?
Is the size of Google’s bot too big to fit into its current pair of jeans?…
The Dicontas Blog site (on Email Monitoring and Email Filtering) has been updated to use WordPress 2.0.5.
This is a required upgrade. The installation went as planned and all site features and installed plugins seem to be fully working.
Great work again by the WordPress Team.