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WordPress SEO Alt Tag Optimizer | Font Resizer Tool Plugin

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)

Written on 07 June 2007 by Dicontas Blog Admin under Wordpress & Plugins with No Comments
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is google really that slow at identifying and indexing backlinks?

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?…

Written on 08 January 2007 by Dicontas Blog Admin under Other with 2 Comments
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Google to Yahoo-MSN-Live Search Sitemaps Generator - Updated Version

If you have a web site and a blog site, chances are that you have two separate Google sitemaps that list the URLs within each site. I use WordPress for my blog and PHP for my web site. There are many tools/plugins to create these Google sitemaps separately, and this is where the issues lies, and the need for this script.

This means that I have to maintain two Google sitemaps and there is no easy way (i.e. a tool) to generate a proper sitemap for all the pages within my sites. I use the Google Sitemaps plugin for WordPress, but use another sitemap generator for my website.

What the Script does? If you do have two Google sitemaps, then I have enhanced a PHP script to read these two Google sitemaps, extract the URLs and to append/parse them into a file (called urllist.txt) that is used by Yahoo, MSN and Live sitemaps. This helps Yahoo, MSN and Windows Live Search search engine bots to find and index your site pages and aids Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) as they can find all your page URLs more easily.

To read more, and to download the latest version, go to this page:

Google to Yahoo-MSN-Live Sitemaps Creator Tool

Also included in this version is a text file explaining the use of Yahoo’s ApplicationID and Site Explorer tools to enable you to create an easy process of informing Yahoo every time you update your urllist.txt file. This process involves 3 steps to create a browser short-cut that sends an update notification request informing Yahoo of your new web pages.

Written on 02 November 2006 by Dicontas Blog Admin under Tools, Wordpress & Plugins with No Comments
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Google to Yahoo-MSN-Live Search Sitemaps Creator Tool

If you have a web site and a blog site, chances are you have two seperate Google sitemaps that list the URLs within each site. I use WordPress for my blog and PHP for my web site.

This means that I have to maintain two Google sitemaps and there is no easy way (i.e. a tool) to generate a proper sitemap for all the pages within my sites. I use the Google Sitemaps plugin for WordPress, but use another sitemap generator for my website.

If you do have two Google sitemaps, then I have enhanced a PHP script to read these two Google sitemaps, extract the URLs and to append them into Yahoo and MSN (Live Spaces) sitemaps. Both these files are identical except in name only (yahoo.txt and urllist.txt).

This helps both Yahoo and MSN find their respective sitemaps more easily and aids SEO as they can find your page URLs more easily. This approach also allows for any future changes in the specifications of Yahoo and MSN sitemaps to be easily accomodated.

You are free to download, review and use this PHP script as you so desire.

Download the Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool

The download includes a readme.txt file for instructions on how to use the script.

For more info on future releases, please go to my static page:

Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool Page

If you are happy with this script, please leave a trackback or comment on this post.

Written on 29 September 2006 by Dicontas Blog Admin under Wordpress & Plugins with 2 Comments
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