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)
This site now uses WordPress 2.0.9. Upgrading is quick and easy if you go to the Mark on WordPress site and download the Changes Diff zip file that only contains the core WordPress files that have been changed.
This blog has been updated to v2.0.7 as there were a few security issues and the upgrade was mandatory.
I am waiting till all the WordPress plugins fully support v2.1 before the next major update (e.g. the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin).
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.
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.