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Update on Google Panda
How Google’s Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever – Whiteboard Friday
Links to Resources
Usage of content management systems for websites
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
Free PR checking service like: http://www.prchecker.info/
Excellent add-on for firefox like “SEO Toolbar” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/seo-toolbar-13927/
Use an SEO friendly URL. Adjust the options settings of WordPress visit http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/seo-friendly-url-structure-for-wordpress/ for more information.
BMW given Google ‘death penalty’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4685750.stm
Link to article about backlinks and content
http://www.quicksprout.com/2010/03/17/7-ways-to-legitimately-build-backlinks/
What are some effective techniques for building links?
(From Google Own Webmasters)
Google Adwords for tools related to Keywords
https://adwords.google.com.au)
Social Networking Plug-ins
· Network Publisher http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/network-publisher/
· CommentLuv http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/commentluv/
· Sociable http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/sociable/
· Sexy Bookmarks http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/sexybookmarks/
· Wordbook http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/wordbook/
· FotoBook http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/fotobook/
· Twitter Tools http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/twitter-tools/
· Tweet Meme http://wordpress.org/extend/plug-ins/tweetmeme/
WordPress Navigation and Menus
Creating Two-Tiered Conditional Navigation in WordPress
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/02/12/creating-two-tiered-conditional-navigation-in-wordpress/
How To: Making a Categories Drop-Down Menu
http://wphacks.com/how-to-make-categories-drop-down-menu/
Using Sliding Doors with WordPress Navigation
http://wphacks.com/sliding-doors-wordpress-navigation-css-technique/
Joost De Valk’s WordPress SEO plug-in
http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Pingomatic
http://pingomatic.com/
Hardening WordPress
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
WordFence Firewall Plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/