For more information; you can check the announcement about this mobile search tool in Google Mobile Blog.

It has a section named Performance Overview where the tool shows a chart showing your pages load speeds per day and month plus a statistical information regarding your websites average speed rate among all the websites that Google logs.

There is also a Page Speed Suggestions section which gives you ways on how to improve your website loading speed with a list of urls that can be optimized. Tips include enabling gzip compression, combining external JavaScripts, minimizing DNS lookups and combining external CSS files where possible.

For example, if you are searching a specific product or an event, the search results that fit your criteria will have an additional field of the product or the event with an image/video of the search term located right above the search result. This field may include featured variaties of the product listed with prizes, or the map of the shops that has that product or a trailer of a movie you are looking for.

There is also an option to hide these additional informations if you prefer having the results in the way it was before.

I will try to list some of the useful plugins for you to check and use the ones meet your needs.

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

This useful plugin generates a sitemap for your website that will let search engines to crawl and index your content easily. It supports custom URLs and notifies major search engines whenever the sitemap is updated after a post or a page you publish.

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Download Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator from Wordpress.Org

All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack is one of the most famous seo plugins for wordpress. It generates meta tags automatically, and lets you to override any title. You can set canonical URLs and fine-tune your navigational pages. The options interface comes with the plugin is pretty user friendly.

Download All in One SEO Pack Plugin Homepage on Wordpres.Org

HeadSpace2 SEO

This SEO plugin is an advanced user one which lets you to configure your meta tags for your posts, categories and pages. You can also set-up which parts of your website will be published on no-follow or no-index attributes. You can add javascript or CSS files to your posts

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Download HeadSpace2 SEO Plugin from Wordpress.Org

SEO Smart Links

This plugin lets you to automatically link the keywords and matching URLs in your posts and pages. You can also add no-follow attribute and target values for the link. This plugin briefly; looks for keyword phrases that match the titles of your posts and pages by default and turn them into links. For example: If you have a product name and if you want that product name linked to the product page automatically whenever it is written on a post or a page, SEO Smart Links make it automatically. Check the plugin’s author website for more detailed help.

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Download SEO Smart Links from Wordpress.Org

Broken Link Checker

No need to mention how broken links might damage your website SEO wise. This plugin checks your posts and pages to find if there are any broken ones and notifies you on your dashboard if any. There is also some additional options such as reporting redirected links, and broken images which can be set in the plugin options page.

Download Broken Link Checker from Wordpress.Org

SEO Image

ALT and TITLE tags are important parts of your images for SEO purposes. They add information about the images in the code and lets search engines crawl the image successfully. This plugin lets you to automatically add ALT and TITLE tags to your images that hasn’t been set with these tags according to the options you specify in the plugin options page.

Download SEO Friendly Images from Wordpress.Org

Redirection

This plugin lets you to manage 301 redirections which is vital for your on site search engine optimization. It captures the broken / 404 links on your website and lets you to point them to 301 redirection. An additional option this plugin provides is you can also redirect any link in your website; not only the broken ones. This feature can be useful in some cases. It also keeps a full log of redirected pages which is helpful for you to keep the track of the actions.

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Download Redirection Plugin from Wordpress.Org

Additionals

Google Doc Embedder

This is a plugin that lets you embed PDF files, Powerpoint documents into your posts using the Google Doc Viewer. The good thing with this plugin is it doesn’t require any software installed on the visitors browser to view it.

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Download Google Doc Embedder from Wordpress.Org

WP Greet Box

This plugin automatically shows greeting messages in your homepage with referer URL the visitor directed to your website. The nice thing about this plugin is it suggests visitors to take actions related with the referers they are visiting your website. For example, if the visitor clicks a link on a twitter page and visits your website; this plugin generates a message telling the visitor to tweet that page and follow you on Twitter. There are also some other major services included to the referers list. You can also set a default welcome message ignoring any referer related messages.

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Download WP Greet Box from Wordpress.Org

Important Note: All plugins listed here are given download links to Wordpress.Org official website. Be careful when you are trying to download a plugin; make sure you are getting the file via wordpress.org or directly from the author’s website if trusted.

Couple of years ago while working in a project, I was checking and moderating when necessary a website’s comments section which was only one of my responsibilities. It was a pretty high trafficed website and there were dozens of comments coming in daily, not bot based but user comments. That was the first time when I felt so sick about people leaving URL addresses with their so-called comments (I will explain the “so-called” part) just for SEO purposes. I was so stucked moderating comments in that project and I realized I was turned into a master of comment filterer, eventually. I was like “Yea yea, just another comment to drop an URL on the page” just after reading the beginning words of the comment.

Don’t want to go down there too deeply, where I am getting at is; This is a way of trying to fool a person for your needs. Sounds low, doesn’t it? Writing cliche sentences with some quotes from the original post or trying to seem thankful with affectational words is nothing but a disrespect.

In this website I am trying to add information and ways for people who are trying to built a worthy content for their websites, but the main aim here is to do it in a good and ethical way. As for the URL using in your comments and forum signatures/posts; do it in a good way and really mean it while doing. Try to add a value to the topic you are participating. Right, it requires more effort than just dropping a standard comment.

Bottom line is; If you leave a comment under a post with useful information or sincerity in it; that URL you use with your comment will be more attractive to the readers.

Think about it.

What we should be doing here is to call the rss.php from the wordpress install in the first line of the code with<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); (the rss.php should already be there coming from a default wordpress install)

Then we give the RSS url of the feed we want to display in our wordpress website wp_rss(’http://ENTER-RSS-FEED-URL-HERE’, 10); ?> in the second line. The number written as “10” is the number of the feeds you want to display from the RSS feed url. It is optional and changable.

The final code should be two lines and look like:

<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’);
wp_rss(’http://ENTER-RSS-FEED-URL-HERE’, 10); ?>

Title order example:

Business Category : Your Website Name, City  – State

instead of

Website Name

As seen, I added SEO as the business category, website name, and a location information. Emphasis here; This title tag option goes to the ones who give priority to list in local SERPS. Since the searchers add specific details such as state and business category when doing a local based search, listing those fields in your title tags will add your website a higher value from that point of view.

Google have already services like Google Talk which uses VOIP technology to link phone numbers and Google Voice as an online communication service; and acquisition of Gizmo5 will definately add a lot value in the competition.

You can reach the original announcement of Google here.

Commenting on blogs are a really effective way to bring visitors to your website. Your comment should include your website url with an active link.

Do Really Participate

By commenting, I mean really commenting. Don’t just find a post and leave a comment like “Wow! That’s cool.” and leave your website url with it. That’s uncool and also considered as a spam. You need to participate in the topic and your comment has to add a value to that post. If it does, then the rest of the participators will more than happy to click and visit your website.

Comment on Relevant Blogs

It is better for you to find and comment on relevant blogs to your website’s content. In a related area the readers of that blog are also a potential visitors to your website. With the help of your comment’s being valuable; the readers of that post will find a reason to have a look to your website, probably. That’s what an interested reader would do.

Points

Don’t comment to just leave a comment. Add a value to the post you are commenting.
Never leave a word or two length comment and leave your website url with it. That’s spam.
Comment on relevant blogs.

Article by searchef.com