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href="http://yoast.com/search-social-cream-coffee/">Search &#038; Social &#8211; you can&#8217;t get the cream out of the coffee</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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href="http://yoast.com/search-social-cream-coffee/">Search &#038; Social &#8211; you can&#8217;t get the cream out of the coffee</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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href="http://yoast.com/stop-sopa/">Stop SOPA, help the internet.</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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href="http://yoast.com/stop-sopa/">Stop SOPA, help the internet.</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/">WordPress SEO Plugin Theme Integration Guide</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/">WordPress SEO plugin</a>.</p><ol><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#basics">Basics</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#head">Head elements</a><ol><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#titles">Titles</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#meta">Meta's</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#link-items">Link items</a></li></ol></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#body">Body elements</a><ol><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#breadcrumbs">Breadcrumbs</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#other-body-elements">Other body elements</a></li></ol></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#plugincheck">Is your WordPress SEO plugin active?</a></li></ol><h2 id="basics">Basics</h2><p>Whether or not your theme is in the WordPress.org repository, you should strive to meet their <a
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review">Theme Review guidelines</a>. With the <a
href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/">theme check</a> plugin you can simply check whether that's the case for most of the technical aspects. This makes sure you have all the necessary hooks for plugins to do their work. If any of those fail, fix them before even looking at the stuff below.</p><h2 id="head">Head elements</h2><h3 id="titles">Titles</h3><p>The most common issue with SEO plugins and WordPress themes is with titles: theme authors have a tendency to hardcode (sections of) titles into their themes, which results in hard to fix behavior, which I recently <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/">discussed here</a> and hasn't been fixed in WordPress core yet. In short, your title should be not even a tiny bit longer than this:</p><pre class="brush: php; html-script: true; light: true; title: ; notranslate">&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php wp_title(''); ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</pre><p>If you decide to embed SEO functionality in your theme, you should then put a filter function on to that <code>wp_title</code> functionality just like a plugin would. This allows you to "unhook" that filter when an SEO plugin is active.</p><h3 id="meta">Meta's</h3><p>Meta tags come in a vast amount of shapes and sizes, but there are only a few that "matter". There are the meta description, the meta keywords (<a
href="http://yoast.com/meta-keywords/">on which I have a strong opinion too</a>) and the meta robots tag. In my opinion, your theme should <em>never</em> embed any of these meta tags, but, if you decide to embed SEO functionality into your theme, write functions for these things and hook them on to the <code>wp_head</code> action.</p><p>Be very, very sure to allow for site owners to fully disable any meta functionality you write. I regularly, read: daily, advise people to change themes when their theme has a lot of SEO stuff embedded that is just plain wrong or collides with other plugins. Make no mistake: a portion of your users, probably a large portion of your users, cares about their SEO. Getting it <em>wrong</em> is worse then not doing anything, so if I were a theme author I'd most definitely opt for the latter.</p><h3 id="link-items">Link items</h3><p>There are a lot of &lt;link&gt; items that matter for SEO these days. There are <a
href="http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/">rel=canonical</a>, <a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=next and rel=prev</a> and a few more. WordPress does rel=canonical on single posts and pages but nowhere else yet, though a <a
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   yoast_breadcrumb('&lt;div id=&quot;breadcrumbs&quot;&gt;','&lt;/div&gt;');
}</pre><p>This code will not display anything unless the breadcrumbs feature of my SEO plugin is enabled.</p><h4>Breadcrumbs Variables</h4><p>This breadcrumb path takes the following 3 variables:</p><p><strong><code>$prefix</code></strong><br
/> The code that your breadcrumb should be prefixed with. Default to an empty string.</p><p><strong><code>$suffix</code></strong><br
/> The code that should be added on the back of your breadcrumb. Default to an empty string.</p><p><strong><code>$display</code></strong><br
/> If set to false, will return the breadcrumb path instead of echo-ing it. Defaults to true.</p><h3 id="other-body-elements">Other body elements</h3><p>You should take note of my guides on <a
href="http://yoast.com/blog-headings-structure/">HTML heading structure</a> and <a
href="http://yoast.com/html-sitemap-wordpress/">HTML Sitemaps</a>. While my SEO plugin doesn't "interfere" with those, it's good practice to make them optimal. You should also read my <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme/">WordPress SEO Theme Guidelines</a> to make sure you're doing all the other necessary things.</p><h2 id="plugincheck">Is your WordPress SEO plugin active?</h2><p>You should check whether a constant named WPSEO_VERSION is defined, preferably like this:</p><pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">if ( defined('WPSEO_VERSION') ) {
// Disable your SEO stuff
}</pre><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/">WordPress SEO Plugin Theme Integration Guide</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/MhjO31oiFgM" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:67:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"41";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:150:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide";}s:7:"summary";s:817:"<p>Theme authors come in two different shapes and sizes: those who integrate SEO "functionality" into their themes and those who don't. If you're in the camp of integrating SEO functionality into your theme, you've got yet another choice to make: do you "yield" for site owners that have an SEO plugin installed, disabling your own [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/">WordPress SEO Plugin Theme Integration Guide</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:7279:"<p>Theme authors come in two different shapes and sizes: those who integrate SEO "functionality" into their themes and those who don't. If you're in the camp of integrating SEO functionality into your theme, you've got yet another choice to make: do you "yield" for site owners that have an SEO plugin installed, disabling your own SEO functionality or do you deny them that choice.</p><p>For those who do decide to yield and for those who do not integrate SEO functionality into their theme, this is the guide to follow on how to make sure your theme works with all the major SEO plugins and more in particular, my <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/">WordPress SEO plugin</a>.</p><ol><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#basics">Basics</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#head">Head elements</a><ol><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#titles">Titles</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#meta">Meta's</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#link-items">Link items</a></li></ol></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#body">Body elements</a><ol><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#breadcrumbs">Breadcrumbs</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#other-body-elements">Other body elements</a></li></ol></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/#plugincheck">Is your WordPress SEO plugin active?</a></li></ol><h2 id="basics">Basics</h2><p>Whether or not your theme is in the WordPress.org repository, you should strive to meet their <a
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review">Theme Review guidelines</a>. With the <a
href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/">theme check</a> plugin you can simply check whether that's the case for most of the technical aspects. This makes sure you have all the necessary hooks for plugins to do their work. If any of those fail, fix them before even looking at the stuff below.</p><h2 id="head">Head elements</h2><h3 id="titles">Titles</h3><p>The most common issue with SEO plugins and WordPress themes is with titles: theme authors have a tendency to hardcode (sections of) titles into their themes, which results in hard to fix behavior, which I recently <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/">discussed here</a> and hasn't been fixed in WordPress core yet. In short, your title should be not even a tiny bit longer than this:</p><pre class="brush: php; html-script: true; light: true; title: ; notranslate">&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php wp_title(''); ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</pre><p>If you decide to embed SEO functionality in your theme, you should then put a filter function on to that <code>wp_title</code> functionality just like a plugin would. This allows you to "unhook" that filter when an SEO plugin is active.</p><h3 id="meta">Meta's</h3><p>Meta tags come in a vast amount of shapes and sizes, but there are only a few that "matter". There are the meta description, the meta keywords (<a
href="http://yoast.com/meta-keywords/">on which I have a strong opinion too</a>) and the meta robots tag. In my opinion, your theme should <em>never</em> embed any of these meta tags, but, if you decide to embed SEO functionality into your theme, write functions for these things and hook them on to the <code>wp_head</code> action.</p><p>Be very, very sure to allow for site owners to fully disable any meta functionality you write. I regularly, read: daily, advise people to change themes when their theme has a lot of SEO stuff embedded that is just plain wrong or collides with other plugins. Make no mistake: a portion of your users, probably a large portion of your users, cares about their SEO. Getting it <em>wrong</em> is worse then not doing anything, so if I were a theme author I'd most definitely opt for the latter.</p><h3 id="link-items">Link items</h3><p>There are a lot of &lt;link&gt; items that matter for SEO these days. There are <a
href="http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/">rel=canonical</a>, <a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=next and rel=prev</a> and a few more. WordPress does rel=canonical on single posts and pages but nowhere else yet, though a <a
href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18660">patch for core is ready</a> to make WordPress add rel=canonical in more cases, but your theme should not do any of these. You're, to be honest, bound to get them wrong.</p><p>If you do decide to add them, do it in the same fashion as meta elements: hook them on to <code>wp_head</code> and make sure site owners can disable the functionality.</p><h2 id="body">Body elements</h2><h3 id="breadcrumbs">Breadcrumbs</h3><p>While the above points make integration for <em>any</em> SEO plugin easier, this point is more specific for my own WordPress SEO plugin. Integration of my breadcrumbs is quite easy, use something like the following code:</p><pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
   yoast_breadcrumb('&lt;div id=&quot;breadcrumbs&quot;&gt;','&lt;/div&gt;');
}</pre><p>This code will not display anything unless the breadcrumbs feature of my SEO plugin is enabled.</p><h4>Breadcrumbs Variables</h4><p>This breadcrumb path takes the following 3 variables:</p><p><strong><code>$prefix</code></strong><br
/> The code that your breadcrumb should be prefixed with. Default to an empty string.</p><p><strong><code>$suffix</code></strong><br
/> The code that should be added on the back of your breadcrumb. Default to an empty string.</p><p><strong><code>$display</code></strong><br
/> If set to false, will return the breadcrumb path instead of echo-ing it. Defaults to true.</p><h3 id="other-body-elements">Other body elements</h3><p>You should take note of my guides on <a
href="http://yoast.com/blog-headings-structure/">HTML heading structure</a> and <a
href="http://yoast.com/html-sitemap-wordpress/">HTML Sitemaps</a>. While my SEO plugin doesn't "interfere" with those, it's good practice to make them optimal. You should also read my <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme/">WordPress SEO Theme Guidelines</a> to make sure you're doing all the other necessary things.</p><h2 id="plugincheck">Is your WordPress SEO plugin active?</h2><p>You should check whether a constant named WPSEO_VERSION is defined, preferably like this:</p><pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">if ( defined('WPSEO_VERSION') ) {
// Disable your SEO stuff
}</pre><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-plugin-theme-integration-guide/">WordPress SEO Plugin Theme Integration Guide</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/MhjO31oiFgM" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:3;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:43:"GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/sJu1fSIn6dA/";s:8:"comments";s:48:"http://yoast.com/godaddy-link-building/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:47:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:20:"SEOLink BuildingSpam";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=32888";s:11:"description";s:763:"<p>Over the last few months, I've seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very strong domain in a smart way, but then I noticed they ranked for terms I know you can't rank for without a lot of external links, no [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/godaddy-link-building/">GoDaddy&#8217;s spammy link building techniques</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:17:"Array            ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:44:"http://yoast.com/godaddy-link-building/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:3:"184";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:6:"      ";s:13:"content_title";s:221:"Search Engine SpamWebSite Tonight bannerwebsite tonight logo with embedded link beneath itgodaddy visibility according to searchmetricsMajestic SEO backlink history for GoDaddyAnchor text distribution of GoDaddy backlinks";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:104:"http://yoast.com/godaddy-link-building/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=godaddy-link-building";}s:7:"summary";s:763:"<p>Over the last few months, I've seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very strong domain in a smart way, but then I noticed they ranked for terms I know you can't rank for without a lot of external links, no [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/godaddy-link-building/">GoDaddy&#8217;s spammy link building techniques</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:4;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:35:"Rich Snippets showing up everywhere";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/9FxCqQPk0qA/";s:8:"comments";s:51:"http://yoast.com/rich-snippets-everywhere/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:28:35 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:16:"SEORich Snippets";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=32838";s:11:"description";s:784:"<p>Google seems to have taken out the whitelisting process for several types rich snippets, most importantly the review and review-aggregate types. In the process they have also made some changes to how combined author / rich snippets are shown. Let me run you through what I've seen over the last few days. Review snippets for [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/rich-snippets-everywhere/">Rich Snippets showing up everywhere</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:22:"Array                 ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:47:"http://yoast.com/rich-snippets-everywhere/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"84";}s:5:"media";a:4:{s:7:"content";s:7:"       ";s:13:"content_title";s:229:"Rich Snippets showing up everywhere • YoastGD Star Rating – rich snippetsyoast favicon result with rich snippetswordpress seo author higlightauthor review rich snippetuse google libraries rich snippetRich Snippets Application";s:19:"content_description";s:137:"Getting rich snippets showing for your site was never as easy as it is now, reviews are showing for every site that has them implemented.";s:16:"content_keywords";s:27:"Rich Snippets,rich snippets";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:110:"http://yoast.com/rich-snippets-everywhere/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rich-snippets-everywhere";}s:7:"summary";s:784:"<p>Google seems to have taken out the whitelisting process for several types rich snippets, most importantly the review and review-aggregate types. In the process they have also made some changes to how combined author / rich snippets are shown. Let me run you through what I've seen over the last few days. Review snippets for [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/rich-snippets-everywhere/">Rich Snippets showing up everywhere</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:5;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:48:"How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/vAfdH1JyMh4/";s:8:"comments";s:63:"http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:36:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:22:"WordPressWordPress SEO";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=30717";s:11:"description";s:802:"<p>Quite often I give people the advice to change their WordPress permalink structure, this post details the why and, more importantly: how to make such a change without losing the traffic that you already have. It includes a new tool built by yours truly to help you create the necessary redirects. Keep on reading! Why [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/">How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:10:"Array     ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:59:"http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:3:"182";}s:5:"media";a:3:{s:7:"content";s:2:"  ";s:13:"content_title";s:64:"change WordPress permalink structureWordPress Permalink Settings";s:19:"content_description";s:40:"Change your WordPress Permalink Settings";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:134:"http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=change-wordpress-permalink-structure";}s:7:"summary";s:802:"<p>Quite often I give people the advice to change their WordPress permalink structure, this post details the why and, more importantly: how to make such a change without losing the traffic that you already have. It includes a new tool built by yours truly to help you create the necessary redirects. Keep on reading! Why [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/">How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:6;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Using Cornerstone Content to make your Site Rank";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/bGoyEZyjFk0/";s:8:"comments";s:51:"http://yoast.com/cornerstone-content-rank/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:08:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:32:"SEOKeyword ResearchLink Building";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=29057";s:11:"description";s:765:"<p>The most common question we answer in our website reviews is "how do I make my site rank for keyword X?". What most people don't realize is that they're asking the wrong question. You see, sites don't rank: pages rank. If you want to rank for a keyword, you'll need to determine which page is [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/cornerstone-content-rank/">Using Cornerstone Content to make your Site Rank</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:7:"Array  ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:47:"http://yoast.com/cornerstone-content-rank/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"56";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:1:" ";s:13:"content_title";s:19:"Cornerstone Content";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:110:"http://yoast.com/cornerstone-content-rank/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cornerstone-content-rank";}s:7:"summary";s:765:"<p>The most common question we answer in our website reviews is "how do I make my site rank for keyword X?". What most people don't realize is that they're asking the wrong question. You see, sites don't rank: pages rank. If you want to rank for a keyword, you'll need to determine which page is [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/cornerstone-content-rank/">Using Cornerstone Content to make your Site Rank</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:7;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Sending Reliable Email with Postmark";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/lQyHV9c98oQ/";s:8:"comments";s:50:"http://yoast.com/postmark-reliable-email/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:49:01 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:31:"WordPressEmailWordPress Plugins";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=28284";s:11:"description";s:809:"<p>Reliable email delivery is important to your business: your website probably has a contact form for hiring inquiries; your web application(s) rely on email for interaction with your clients, heck, you might even rely on your server to send email for e-commerce transactions. If those emails do not reliably reach you or your (prospective) customers, [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/postmark-reliable-email/">Sending Reliable Email with Postmark</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:7:"Array  ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:46:"http://yoast.com/postmark-reliable-email/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"25";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:1:" ";s:13:"content_title";s:23:"Reliable Email Delivery";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:108:"http://yoast.com/postmark-reliable-email/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=postmark-reliable-email";}s:7:"summary";s:809:"<p>Reliable email delivery is important to your business: your website probably has a contact form for hiring inquiries; your web application(s) rely on email for interaction with your clients, heck, you might even rely on your server to send email for e-commerce transactions. If those emails do not reliably reach you or your (prospective) customers, [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/postmark-reliable-email/">Sending Reliable Email with Postmark</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:8;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:41:"Questions and Answers – Google+ edition";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/wfJ8XSbwfYM/";s:8:"comments";s:42:"http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:33:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:38:"SEOHTML5Rich SnippetsWordPress Plugins";s:11:"description";s:779:"<p>In honor of the new Yoast Google+ page, I've taken questions there which I'll answer here, so everyone can benefit. Do you think the increased number of metatags released by Google are good for webmasters and the web, or just making things more complicated for the amateur so only those that can afford SEO consultancy [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/">Questions and Answers &#8211; Google+ edition</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:6215:"<p>In honor of the new <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/115382620698940425312/115382620698940425312/posts">Yoast Google+ page</a>, I've taken questions there which I'll answer <em>here</em>, so everyone can benefit.</p><ul><li><p><em>Do you think the increased number of metatags released by Google are good for webmasters and the web, or just making things more complicated for the amateur so only those that can afford SEO consultancy will benefit?</em></p><p>I think Google is making it harder in some ways, but they're also allowing us to help solve problems we couldn't solve before. Things like <a
href="http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/">rel=canonical</a>, <a
href="http://yoast.com/tag/rich-snippets/">rich snippets</a>, <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me/">rel=author</a> and <a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=next &amp; rel=previous</a> might make the "average" user think that more and more needs to be done. Some of them help us solve problems that we couldn't solve before, others allow for new options that just weren't there before. So yes, it's becoming a bit more technical, no I don't really think that's a bad thing. Does it mean more websites need an SEO? I don't think so, most of that stuff is covered by plugin authors like myself. My <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/">WordPress SEO plugin</a> for instance already does 2 out of 4 of the above.</p></li><li><p><em>According to you, what is the optimal way to use pagination in web shop pages (categories, filters) to prevent duplicate content issues and crawling issues?</em></p><p>This is one of the hardest bits of e-Commerce SEO, mostly because it differs for each website. We encounter this regularly when we do <a
href="http://yoast.com/hire-me/website-review/">website reviews</a>for e-commerce sites: 9 out of 10 sites have bad categorization. I don't mind whether you use tags or categories or something else; I do mind if whatever you use isn't logical and doesn't allow me to easily find all the products you offer.</p><p>Faceted search results are by far the most user-friendly in my opinion, but come with a set of SEO issues of their own: do you want all facets indexed? Usually the answer is no. Do you then want to keep them all <em>out</em> of the index? No. I want to hand pick which ones are indexed, yes, that's hard if not impossible in most systems. So you can understand that this is the sort of thing I can't answer in a couple of paragraphs, or even in a longer article. It requires a per site analysis and testing.</p></li><li><p><em>How do you think G+ will help SEO for your website?</em></p><p>It's already helping. Author highlighting through rel=author in combination with Google+ is proving to be a tremendous improver of click through rates from the search results. What would you click on? If you saw 5 results and one of them had an author picture next to it and stated the author was in 10,000+ circles? Right. Awesomeness.</p><p>For the "average blogger" though, who's not getting highlighted in the search results yet and doesn't have a big following on Google+, it might seem less obvious. But trust me: you want to invest the time in it.</p></li><li><p><em>Any WordPress Plugin you recommend to manage Schema microformats?</em></p><p>None really. I think most of that belongs in your theme. The couple of plugins I've seen out there that say they do stuff with microformats do it through filthy hacks, or by hiding data. I would really suggest reading my articles on <a
href="http://yoast.com/tag/rich-snippets/">rich snippets</a> and implementing it in your theme.</p></li><li><p><em>Why does adding more content doesn't automatically lead to more visitors anymore? Do you really need links to every post to get the traffic?</em></p><p>Yes you need links. Loads of unlinked pages within your site will usually not help you an awful lot anymore, even though it might have in the past. It depends a bit on your domain authority though, any post on this site will rank, regardless of whether that individual post has a lot of links to it or not. What does help is that I have a relatively "ok" internal link distribution and I tend to interlink my posts a lot.</p></li><li><p><em>If you were to write the 10 commandments of WordPress &amp; SEO, what would they be?</em></p><p>Well, let's see, commandment #1: install &amp; configure my <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/">WordPress SEO plugin</a>. #2 through to #8: write great content. Commandment #9: properly tag / categorize that content. Commandment #10: talk to your prospective audience about what you've written on every platform that audience uses and engage with them. Bonus commandment #11: forget all other technical tricks.</p></li><li><p><em>What is the best html5 resource you recommend (book or site) so I can point some of our programmers in that direction?</em></p><p>Buy them <a
href="http://www.abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers">this small book</a> from Jeremy Keith &amp; the great guys at A Book Apart, then send them to <a
href="http://diveintohtml5.info/">Dive Into HTML5</a>.</p></li><li><p>Best one for last: <em>From your view, how to Recover from a Google Panda Penalty?</em></p><p>The sites I've seen that really got hit don't really stand a chance of coming back, and usually rightfully so. The quick &amp; dirty guide though is: get rid of <em>all</em> your low quality pages and make sure you offer a fantastic user experience and loads of added value. By then you won't need the Google traffic anymore of course, but that's usually the point when you'll get it in droves.</p></li></ul><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/">Questions and Answers &#8211; Google+ edition</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/wfJ8XSbwfYM" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:38:"http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"12";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:92:"http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-a-google-plus";}s:7:"summary";s:779:"<p>In honor of the new Yoast Google+ page, I've taken questions there which I'll answer here, so everyone can benefit. Do you think the increased number of metatags released by Google are good for webmasters and the web, or just making things more complicated for the amateur so only those that can afford SEO consultancy [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/">Questions and Answers &#8211; Google+ edition</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:6215:"<p>In honor of the new <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/115382620698940425312/115382620698940425312/posts">Yoast Google+ page</a>, I've taken questions there which I'll answer <em>here</em>, so everyone can benefit.</p><ul><li><p><em>Do you think the increased number of metatags released by Google are good for webmasters and the web, or just making things more complicated for the amateur so only those that can afford SEO consultancy will benefit?</em></p><p>I think Google is making it harder in some ways, but they're also allowing us to help solve problems we couldn't solve before. Things like <a
href="http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/">rel=canonical</a>, <a
href="http://yoast.com/tag/rich-snippets/">rich snippets</a>, <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me/">rel=author</a> and <a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=next &amp; rel=previous</a> might make the "average" user think that more and more needs to be done. Some of them help us solve problems that we couldn't solve before, others allow for new options that just weren't there before. So yes, it's becoming a bit more technical, no I don't really think that's a bad thing. Does it mean more websites need an SEO? I don't think so, most of that stuff is covered by plugin authors like myself. My <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/">WordPress SEO plugin</a> for instance already does 2 out of 4 of the above.</p></li><li><p><em>According to you, what is the optimal way to use pagination in web shop pages (categories, filters) to prevent duplicate content issues and crawling issues?</em></p><p>This is one of the hardest bits of e-Commerce SEO, mostly because it differs for each website. We encounter this regularly when we do <a
href="http://yoast.com/hire-me/website-review/">website reviews</a>for e-commerce sites: 9 out of 10 sites have bad categorization. I don't mind whether you use tags or categories or something else; I do mind if whatever you use isn't logical and doesn't allow me to easily find all the products you offer.</p><p>Faceted search results are by far the most user-friendly in my opinion, but come with a set of SEO issues of their own: do you want all facets indexed? Usually the answer is no. Do you then want to keep them all <em>out</em> of the index? No. I want to hand pick which ones are indexed, yes, that's hard if not impossible in most systems. So you can understand that this is the sort of thing I can't answer in a couple of paragraphs, or even in a longer article. It requires a per site analysis and testing.</p></li><li><p><em>How do you think G+ will help SEO for your website?</em></p><p>It's already helping. Author highlighting through rel=author in combination with Google+ is proving to be a tremendous improver of click through rates from the search results. What would you click on? If you saw 5 results and one of them had an author picture next to it and stated the author was in 10,000+ circles? Right. Awesomeness.</p><p>For the "average blogger" though, who's not getting highlighted in the search results yet and doesn't have a big following on Google+, it might seem less obvious. But trust me: you want to invest the time in it.</p></li><li><p><em>Any WordPress Plugin you recommend to manage Schema microformats?</em></p><p>None really. I think most of that belongs in your theme. The couple of plugins I've seen out there that say they do stuff with microformats do it through filthy hacks, or by hiding data. I would really suggest reading my articles on <a
href="http://yoast.com/tag/rich-snippets/">rich snippets</a> and implementing it in your theme.</p></li><li><p><em>Why does adding more content doesn't automatically lead to more visitors anymore? Do you really need links to every post to get the traffic?</em></p><p>Yes you need links. Loads of unlinked pages within your site will usually not help you an awful lot anymore, even though it might have in the past. It depends a bit on your domain authority though, any post on this site will rank, regardless of whether that individual post has a lot of links to it or not. What does help is that I have a relatively "ok" internal link distribution and I tend to interlink my posts a lot.</p></li><li><p><em>If you were to write the 10 commandments of WordPress &amp; SEO, what would they be?</em></p><p>Well, let's see, commandment #1: install &amp; configure my <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/">WordPress SEO plugin</a>. #2 through to #8: write great content. Commandment #9: properly tag / categorize that content. Commandment #10: talk to your prospective audience about what you've written on every platform that audience uses and engage with them. Bonus commandment #11: forget all other technical tricks.</p></li><li><p><em>What is the best html5 resource you recommend (book or site) so I can point some of our programmers in that direction?</em></p><p>Buy them <a
href="http://www.abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers">this small book</a> from Jeremy Keith &amp; the great guys at A Book Apart, then send them to <a
href="http://diveintohtml5.info/">Dive Into HTML5</a>.</p></li><li><p>Best one for last: <em>From your view, how to Recover from a Google Panda Penalty?</em></p><p>The sites I've seen that really got hit don't really stand a chance of coming back, and usually rightfully so. The quick &amp; dirty guide though is: get rid of <em>all</em> your low quality pages and make sure you offer a fantastic user experience and loads of added value. By then you won't need the Google traffic anymore of course, but that's usually the point when you'll get it in droves.</p></li></ul><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/q-a-google-plus/">Questions and Answers &#8211; Google+ edition</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/wfJ8XSbwfYM" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:9;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:49:"SEO Ranking Data: Tracking Passively and Actively";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/jy8x6skbCzw/";s:8:"comments";s:43:"http://yoast.com/seo-ranking-data/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:02:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:11:"SEORankings";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=21183";s:11:"description";s:739:"<p>People ask me at times whether I talk about SEO ranking data with my clients and/or monitor it for them. In almost all cases I do monitor it, in some cases, we talk about them, in a lot of cases we don't, as it's just not that reliable of a metric. On the other hand, with [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/seo-ranking-data/">SEO Ranking Data: Tracking Passively and Actively</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:7:"Array  ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:39:"http://yoast.com/seo-ranking-data/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"20";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:1:" ";s:13:"content_title";s:28:"On tracking SEO Ranking Data";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:94:"http://yoast.com/seo-ranking-data/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seo-ranking-data";}s:7:"summary";s:739:"<p>People ask me at times whether I talk about SEO ranking data with my clients and/or monitor it for them. In almost all cases I do monitor it, in some cases, we talk about them, in a lot of cases we don't, as it's just not that reliable of a metric. On the other hand, with [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/seo-ranking-data/">SEO Ranking Data: Tracking Passively and Actively</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:10;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Questions and Answers";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/j6CaGpZTJZ0/";s:8:"comments";s:48:"http://yoast.com/questions-and-answers/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:39:15 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:25:"SEOWordPressGravity Forms";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=17244";s:11:"description";s:737:"<p>Last sunday evening I started taking questions on my Facebook page, and I promised to answer them in a blog post here, so here we go: If I have just made changes to my WP site, does it help to toggle the cache plugin? Absolutely. My SEO plugin force refreshes the cache because otherwise people [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/questions-and-answers/">Questions and Answers</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:7:"Array  ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:44:"http://yoast.com/questions-and-answers/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"42";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:1:" ";s:13:"content_title";s:20:"hammer-questionmarks";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:104:"http://yoast.com/questions-and-answers/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-and-answers";}s:7:"summary";s:737:"<p>Last sunday evening I started taking questions on my Facebook page, and I promised to answer them in a blog post here, so here we go: If I have just made changes to my WP site, does it help to toggle the cache plugin? Absolutely. My SEO plugin force refreshes the cache because otherwise people [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/questions-and-answers/">Questions and Answers</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:11;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Lowering the Price for Site Analyses";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/hiP2RfdWvIA/";s:8:"comments";s:48:"http://yoast.com/site-analyses-now-495/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:22:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:25:"Online MarketingUsability";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=15129";s:11:"description";s:765:"<p>I've made a pretty drastic change this morning in a manner that I normally do not do. I usually only raise my rates and never lower them. However, I've significantly lowered the rates of my website review this morning, going from €750 to €495. Why I made this change? Simple: I wanted the site analysis, [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/site-analyses-now-495/">Lowering the Price for Site Analyses</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:9:"Array    ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:44:"http://yoast.com/site-analyses-now-495/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"29";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:2:"  ";s:13:"content_title";s:29:"Site Analysismichiel-heijmans";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:104:"http://yoast.com/site-analyses-now-495/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=site-analyses-now-495";}s:7:"summary";s:765:"<p>I've made a pretty drastic change this morning in a manner that I normally do not do. I usually only raise my rates and never lower them. However, I've significantly lowered the rates of my website review this morning, going from €750 to €495. Why I made this change? Simple: I wanted the site analysis, [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/site-analyses-now-495/">Lowering the Price for Site Analyses</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:12;a:14:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Google & Privacy…";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/5azmMfG6W6k/";s:8:"comments";s:41:"http://yoast.com/google-privacy/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:42:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:3:"SEO";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=14954";s:11:"description";s:628:"<p>Google announced some changes today, in that they'll enable SSL for all logged in users because of "privacy concerns". I think that reason is bull, and wrote a guest post about it on SEObook.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/google-privacy/">Google &#038; Privacy&#8230;</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:777:"<p>Google announced some changes today, in that they'll enable SSL for all logged in users because of "privacy concerns". I think that reason is bull, and <a
href="http://www.seobook.com/false-privacy-claims">wrote a guest post about it on SEObook</a>.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/google-privacy/">Google &#038; Privacy&#8230;</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/5azmMfG6W6k" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:37:"http://yoast.com/google-privacy/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"16";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:90:"http://yoast.com/google-privacy/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-privacy";}s:7:"summary";s:628:"<p>Google announced some changes today, in that they'll enable SSL for all logged in users because of "privacy concerns". I think that reason is bull, and wrote a guest post about it on SEObook.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/google-privacy/">Google &#038; Privacy&#8230;</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:777:"<p>Google announced some changes today, in that they'll enable SSL for all logged in users because of "privacy concerns". I think that reason is bull, and <a
href="http://www.seobook.com/false-privacy-claims">wrote a guest post about it on SEObook</a>.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/google-privacy/">Google &#038; Privacy&#8230;</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/5azmMfG6W6k" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:13;a:15:{s:5:"title";s:43:"(Collaboratively) Translating Yoast Plugins";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/5Ug93U596kk/";s:8:"comments";s:50:"http://yoast.com/translate-yoast-plugins/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:51:26 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:39:"WordPressGravity FormsWordPress Plugins";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://yoast.com/?p=11271";s:11:"description";s:773:"<p>I've been bugged for over 2 years now by people who wanted me to make it possible to translate my plugins into their language. Only a few of my plugins so far have had proper internationalization options, mostly due to me being lazy busy with other stuff. This is now changing, rapidly, though! Last friday [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/translate-yoast-plugins/">(Collaboratively) Translating Yoast Plugins</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";s:7:"Array  ";s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:46:"http://yoast.com/translate-yoast-plugins/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"28";}s:5:"media";a:2:{s:7:"content";s:1:" ";s:13:"content_title";s:26:"Tower of Bable: no longer!";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:108:"http://yoast.com/translate-yoast-plugins/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=translate-yoast-plugins";}s:7:"summary";s:773:"<p>I've been bugged for over 2 years now by people who wanted me to make it possible to translate my plugins into their language. Only a few of my plugins so far have had proper internationalization options, mostly due to me being lazy busy with other stuff. This is now changing, rapidly, though! Last friday [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/translate-yoast-plugins/">(Collaboratively) Translating Yoast Plugins</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:1:"A";}i:14;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:54:"rel=”next” & rel=”prev” for paginated archives";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/cOFTG8QLUZs/";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:57:57 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:21:"SEOHTML5WordPress SEO";s:11:"description";s:844:"<p>Google is once again showing why standards compliant building might be very beneficial for SEO. They have started to use rel="next" and rel="prev", both part of HTML4 and HTML5, to recognize archives and paged articles. Just yesterday I was having a discussion with Nathan Rice, on of the developers of Genesis over how one should deal [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=&#8221;next&#8221; &#038; rel=&#8221;prev&#8221; for paginated archives</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3256:"<p>Google is once again showing why standards compliant building might be very beneficial for SEO. They have started to use rel="next" and rel="prev", both part of <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links">HTML4</a> and <a
href="http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#new-relations">HTML5</a>, to recognize archives and paged articles.</p><p>Just yesterday I was having a discussion with Nathan Rice, on of the developers of <a
title="Genesis" href="http://yoast.com/wp-theme/genesis/">Genesis</a> over how one should deal with paginated archives, eg. <a
title="Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!" href="http://yoast.com/cat/seo/page/2/">page 2 of my SEO category</a>. In Genesis there is the option to canonicalize the subpages back to the first page of an archive. I have said, and will keep saying that I think that that's the sole big SEO mistake in that theme.</p><h2>Enter rel="next" and rel="prev"</h2><p>Now, as it goes with these things, <a
href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html">Google has just posted the solution</a>. They've asked to add <code>rel="next"</code> and <code>rel="prev"</code> to paginated archives, so that they can distinguish them as a series and, quote:</p><blockquote><p>Send users to the most relevant page/URL—typically the first page of the series.</p></blockquote><p>Bingo! That's what we want. The syntax is very simple. On <code>http://yoast.com/cat/seo/page/2/</code> we should have a prev link pointing to the first page in the series and a next link pointing to the <em>next</em> page in the series, like so:</p><pre class="brush: xml; title: ; notranslate">&lt;link rel='prev' href='http://yoast.com/cat/seo/' /&gt;
&lt;link rel='next' href='http://yoast.com/cat/seo/page/3/' /&gt;</pre><p>Now I think this should be added in WordPress core, but of course it currently isn't. We have some other relation links in core right now, most of which are useless. In fact – with the exception of <code>rel="prev"</code> and <code>rel="next"</code> – <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18128">they'll be removed from core anyway</a>. I'm working on a patch for that combined with the <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18672">ticket to add this to core</a>. I'll probably need to combine that with the work Nathan and I were doing on canonical on <a
href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18660">another ticket</a>.</p><h2>Already in WordPress SEO by Yoast</h2><p>For now though, I've added this functionality to my WordPress SEO plugin, so all you have to do is update to version 1.0.2 and you'll be taken care of!</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=&#8221;next&#8221; &#038; rel=&#8221;prev&#8221; for paginated archives</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/cOFTG8QLUZs" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:55:"http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:1:"0";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:126:"http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rel-next-prev-paginated-archives";}s:7:"summary";s:844:"<p>Google is once again showing why standards compliant building might be very beneficial for SEO. They have started to use rel="next" and rel="prev", both part of HTML4 and HTML5, to recognize archives and paged articles. Just yesterday I was having a discussion with Nathan Rice, on of the developers of Genesis over how one should deal [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=&#8221;next&#8221; &#038; rel=&#8221;prev&#8221; for paginated archives</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:3256:"<p>Google is once again showing why standards compliant building might be very beneficial for SEO. They have started to use rel="next" and rel="prev", both part of <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links">HTML4</a> and <a
href="http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#new-relations">HTML5</a>, to recognize archives and paged articles.</p><p>Just yesterday I was having a discussion with Nathan Rice, on of the developers of <a
title="Genesis" href="http://yoast.com/wp-theme/genesis/">Genesis</a> over how one should deal with paginated archives, eg. <a
title="Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!" href="http://yoast.com/cat/seo/page/2/">page 2 of my SEO category</a>. In Genesis there is the option to canonicalize the subpages back to the first page of an archive. I have said, and will keep saying that I think that that's the sole big SEO mistake in that theme.</p><h2>Enter rel="next" and rel="prev"</h2><p>Now, as it goes with these things, <a
href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html">Google has just posted the solution</a>. They've asked to add <code>rel="next"</code> and <code>rel="prev"</code> to paginated archives, so that they can distinguish them as a series and, quote:</p><blockquote><p>Send users to the most relevant page/URL—typically the first page of the series.</p></blockquote><p>Bingo! That's what we want. The syntax is very simple. On <code>http://yoast.com/cat/seo/page/2/</code> we should have a prev link pointing to the first page in the series and a next link pointing to the <em>next</em> page in the series, like so:</p><pre class="brush: xml; title: ; notranslate">&lt;link rel='prev' href='http://yoast.com/cat/seo/' /&gt;
&lt;link rel='next' href='http://yoast.com/cat/seo/page/3/' /&gt;</pre><p>Now I think this should be added in WordPress core, but of course it currently isn't. We have some other relation links in core right now, most of which are useless. In fact – with the exception of <code>rel="prev"</code> and <code>rel="next"</code> – <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18128">they'll be removed from core anyway</a>. I'm working on a patch for that combined with the <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18672">ticket to add this to core</a>. I'll probably need to combine that with the work Nathan and I were doing on canonical on <a
href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18660">another ticket</a>.</p><h2>Already in WordPress SEO by Yoast</h2><p>For now though, I've added this functionality to my WordPress SEO plugin, so all you have to do is update to version 1.0.2 and you'll be taken care of!</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/">rel=&#8221;next&#8221; &#038; rel=&#8221;prev&#8221; for paginated archives</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/cOFTG8QLUZs" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:15;a:14:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/ygif_-qYbyE/";s:8:"comments";s:47:"http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:14:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:9:"WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:24:"http://yoast.com/?p=8934";s:11:"description";s:777:"<p>This is a quick post to let you know thatI've started doing plugin reviews again, starting with Gravity Forms and I've also started with reviews of WordPress themes, starting with a review of Genesis. I'll be reviewing themes regularly, but only if they work with my WordPress SEO plugin, to avoid confusion. Today is also [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/">Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2494:"<p>This is a quick post to let you know thatI've started doing <a
title="WordPress Plugin Reviews" href="http://yoast.com/wp-plugin-review/">plugin reviews</a> again, starting with <a
title="Review of Gravity Forms" href="http://yoast.com/wp-plugin-review/gravity-forms/">Gravity Forms</a> and I've also started with <a
href="http://yoast.com/wp-theme/">reviews of WordPress themes</a>, starting with a <a
title="Genesis" href="http://yoast.com/wp-theme/genesis/">review of Genesis</a>. I'll be reviewing themes regularly, but only if they work with my WordPress SEO plugin, to avoid confusion.</p><p>Today is also one of those days of the year again where I ask you, my dear reader, whether you're a lurker or not, to help me out. I've got three things that need some attention and I hope that one or two of them are applicable to you and you're willing to help me.</p><p>First of all, I'm soliciting testimonials for two of my plugins, I'd like you to tell me why you use them and how much you like them (if you like them, that is). So, if you please could:</p><ul><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/wpseo-testimonial/">Leave a testimonial for my WordPress SEO plugin</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/gawp-testimonial/">Leave a testimonial for my Google Analytics plugin</a></li></ul><p>Next, if you hadn't noticed my previous post, I'm looking for (premium) themes and theme frameworks that work with my WordPress SEO plugin <em>and</em> for themes that are giving issues. This allows me to both compile a list of themes that work well with my WordPress SEO plugin as to reach out to theme developers and see if we can work together to get things fixed. So, if you use a theme that you didn't build yourself but that you either bought or downloaded from WordPress.org, <a
title="WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey" href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/">please fill out this survey</a>.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/">Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/ygif_-qYbyE" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:43:"http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:1:"5";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:102:"http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=testimonials-surveys";}s:7:"summary";s:777:"<p>This is a quick post to let you know thatI've started doing plugin reviews again, starting with Gravity Forms and I've also started with reviews of WordPress themes, starting with a review of Genesis. I'll be reviewing themes regularly, but only if they work with my WordPress SEO plugin, to avoid confusion. Today is also [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/">Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:2494:"<p>This is a quick post to let you know thatI've started doing <a
title="WordPress Plugin Reviews" href="http://yoast.com/wp-plugin-review/">plugin reviews</a> again, starting with <a
title="Review of Gravity Forms" href="http://yoast.com/wp-plugin-review/gravity-forms/">Gravity Forms</a> and I've also started with <a
href="http://yoast.com/wp-theme/">reviews of WordPress themes</a>, starting with a <a
title="Genesis" href="http://yoast.com/wp-theme/genesis/">review of Genesis</a>. I'll be reviewing themes regularly, but only if they work with my WordPress SEO plugin, to avoid confusion.</p><p>Today is also one of those days of the year again where I ask you, my dear reader, whether you're a lurker or not, to help me out. I've got three things that need some attention and I hope that one or two of them are applicable to you and you're willing to help me.</p><p>First of all, I'm soliciting testimonials for two of my plugins, I'd like you to tell me why you use them and how much you like them (if you like them, that is). So, if you please could:</p><ul><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/wpseo-testimonial/">Leave a testimonial for my WordPress SEO plugin</a></li><li><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/gawp-testimonial/">Leave a testimonial for my Google Analytics plugin</a></li></ul><p>Next, if you hadn't noticed my previous post, I'm looking for (premium) themes and theme frameworks that work with my WordPress SEO plugin <em>and</em> for themes that are giving issues. This allows me to both compile a list of themes that work well with my WordPress SEO plugin as to reach out to theme developers and see if we can work together to get things fixed. So, if you use a theme that you didn't build yourself but that you either bought or downloaded from WordPress.org, <a
title="WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey" href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/">please fill out this survey</a>.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/testimonials-surveys/">Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/ygif_-qYbyE" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:16;a:14:{s:5:"title";s:40:"WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/bVZ78REtKsM/";s:8:"comments";s:60:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:24:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:22:"WordPressWordPress SEO";s:4:"guid";s:24:"http://yoast.com/?p=8834";s:11:"description";s:754:"<p>Quite often now, I get the question which themes work well with my WordPress SEO plugin. The honest answer is that I know only a few by heart because I haven't tried them all. Now I know I have a quite active user base for my WordPress SEO plugin and therefor, I've decided to try [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/">WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:5881:"<p>Quite often now, I get the question which themes work well with my WordPress SEO plugin. The honest answer is that I know only a few by heart because I haven't tried them all. Now I know I have a quite active user base for my WordPress SEO plugin and therefor, I've decided to try and combine the two. If you want to help me create a list of themes and whether they're compatible or not, please fill out the form below for one, or more, WordPress themes:</p><div
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href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/bVZ78REtKsM" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:56:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"10";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:128:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility";}s:7:"summary";s:754:"<p>Quite often now, I get the question which themes work well with my WordPress SEO plugin. The honest answer is that I know only a few by heart because I haven't tried them all. Now I know I have a quite active user base for my WordPress SEO plugin and therefor, I've decided to try [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/">WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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id='field_9_3' class='gfield               gfield_contains_required' ><label
class='gfield_label' for='input_9_3'>Theme URL<span
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id='field_9_6' class='gfield' ><label
class='gfield_label' for='input_9_6'>Website</label><div
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name='input_6' id='input_9_6' type='text' value='http://' class='medium'  tabindex='13'  /></div></li></ul></div><div
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type='hidden' class='gform_hidden' name='is_submit_9' value='1' /> <input
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type='hidden' class='gform_hidden' name='gform_unique_id' value='4f1f142333e5a' /> <input
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type='hidden' name='gform_field_values' value='' /></div></form></div><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-theme-compatibility/">WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/bVZ78REtKsM" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:17;a:14:{s:5:"title";s:59:"VPS.net issues: what’s up and what will they do about it?";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/HhcxS3yOFC4/";s:8:"comments";s:41:"http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:10:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:42:"WordPressHostingInterviewWordPress Hosting";s:4:"guid";s:24:"http://yoast.com/?p=8506";s:11:"description";s:771:"<p>When I posted my interview with Terry Myers about cloud hosting, I wasn't really prepared for the backlash that would come in on that post. Quite a few people responded and a lot of them weren't too happy. On top of that, there were several instances of downtime in both the AMS and several US [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/">VPS.net issues: what&#8217;s up and what will they do about it?</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:8539:"<p>When I posted <a
href="http://yoast.com/cloud-hosting/">my interview with Terry Myers about cloud hosting</a>, I wasn't really prepared for the backlash that would come in on that post. Quite a few people responded and a lot of them weren't too happy. On top of that, there were several instances of downtime in both the AMS and several US clouds over the last week. As you might know, I'm an affiliate for VPS.net, so I get a bit better every time they get a new client through me, but I was seriously debating whether that was still a wise choice. In fact, some people were telling me that I should stop recommending them altogether.</p><p>Now, I've been with VPS.net for quite some time, from their very beginning in fact, and I've always liked the service and the people working there. I'm not one to easily leave and on top of that, having had issues at other hosting companies before, I know that things are bound to go wrong at some point. So, I decided to confront my contacts at VPS.net and "talk to the boss". That boss is someone I hadn't spoken to before, Rus Foster. Rus has recently (7 weeks ago) joined VPS.net as their new Managing Director, although he's been in the VPS business for years, replacing Nick Nelson, who's gone higher up in the UK2 Group.</p><p>As you can see, I asked him some, I think, rather tough questions. I was happy with the answers I got, and must say that the changes he's talking about below on the AMS cloud have indeed had a very positive effect on my <a
href="http://yoast.nl">yoast.nl</a> server.</p><h2>Interview with Rus Foster, MD of VPS.net</h2><p><strong>Hi Rus, thanks for agreeing to this interview. My goal is to shed some light on what is currently causing all the issues around VPS.net. First of all, it seems as though every day, somewhere in the world, a VPS.net SAN dies. Some locations have more issues than others, but in general, it's been quite bad lately. What's causing that? And, more importantly, what will you do about it?</strong></p><p>Start with the easy questions eh? Nothing like whats your favourite colour? :)</p><p>Seriously though yes there have been SAN issues on some of our newer clouds.</p><p>Some of the SANS in multiple locations have been showing instability issues caused by the software running on them. As such we are starting to undertake a very aggressive upgrade schedule to move the SAN software to the latest version. Coupled with this we are also upgrading the storage network within each cloud to increase I/O speeds.</p><p>We are however also looking to start using the enterprise class Nexenta storage solution on our new clouds which is engineered fundamentally different to our current SAN solutions. The upshot of this is that the system is much more resilient to failure meaning in the event of a failure there will be no noticeable effect on customers.</p><p>This will be going live on our next cloud but more about that later .....</p><p><strong>When you say "very aggressive upgrade schedule", what do you mean, exactly?</strong></p><p>We have identified 6 clouds where we feel significant upgrades, or full migrations to new facilities are required. We are doing 1-2 clouds a week and aim to have everything completed within the next 6 weeks, if not sooner. This is a significant investment in our infrastructure to increase resiliency and performance.</p><p><strong>To be fair, some people would say that it's a significant investment to make it work the way it should... Which clouds are we talking about?</strong></p><p>There were decisions made in the past that were right at the time. Those choices however no longer reflect customers expectations as cloud hosting is becoming more mainstream. We are making decisions now that prepare us for the future allowing easier service enhancements to be rolled out to all our customers new and old. We are targeting clouds in both the US and Europe. Some of the work, for example on our Amsterdam cloud, has been completed.</p><p><strong>Could you say that maybe you've grown a bit too fast? (Which would be partly my fault, perhaps, sorry about that)</strong></p><p>We learn from mistakes. There is nothing wrong with growing fast. There is something wrong with not managing that growth. I would say that is where as a company we found ourselves tripping over our own feet. My personal focus is split into both pushing the growth of the company, looking at exciting new markets and technologies but also its vitally important that we look after our current customers. This is reflected in us bringing back such old favourites as sales live chat but also focussing on how we can help existing customers. This include things such as the cloud upgrades as well as some exciting upgrades we have coming for all customers.</p><p><strong>Apart from the SANs, another issue seems to have been the fact that you weren't responding during those outages, either on tickets, or on Twitter, with the status blog being deafeningly silent too. What are you going to do about that?</strong></p><p>Communications. Communications. Communications. Nothing travels as fast as bad news. We need to be quicker. We need to be more open. We are taking steps to do that. We are now proactively emailing customers in the event of an outage. We are making it the sole responsibility for the manager on duty to communicate with customers. The status blog and twitter are important fields of communication but they can't give customised responses to each customers. Our support ticket system is in place for that.</p><p><strong>I've seen you jump in on more and more tickets yourself, are you one of those managers on duty?</strong></p><p>Its best to lead by example. I never ask anyone to do something that I wouldn't be willing to do myself. When things get busy in an outage its really a matter of needing all hands to the pumps. Thats why you will see me replying to all sorts of support tickets from simple reboots to full implementations of load balancing.</p><p><strong>I get the feeling, talking to some of the people who bought a VPS, that they actually shouldn't have a VPS. They have two types of downtime, the one caused by themselves as they don't really know their way around a web server, and the ones caused by SANs or other hardware failures at VPS.net. I think that for people who have a lot of those first issues, the new Cloud Hosting, or a somewhat faster WestHost package, both a bit more managed, would be better for them.</strong></p><p><strong>Do you agree? If people think that's true for them, is there any way for you to help in that?</strong></p><p>We all love power. As a petrol head I dream of having a TVR Sagaris on the drive but do I need the power? Of course not. Some people do however need that power. It's all about what matches your individual needs. If people just have a few websites that need to "just work" then a VPS isn't always the best choice and there are other things in our current, and upcoming, product range that could suit them better. If however people do require large amounts of customisation VPS are still a good way to go. If they do require that little bit of hand holding they can always get an On-Demand ticket for a one time issue or pop management on top for unlimited help.</p><p>If a customer wants to move to another product we can move a reasonable number of sites free of charge.</p><p><strong>Cool.</strong></p><p><strong>So you mentioned a new cloud... Tell me more.</strong></p><p>Yes our Japan cloud is the first cloud to be running our new Nexenta storage system and OnApp 2.2. It will also be live next week. Coupled with this, as we know people might be a bit wary of the new solution, we are doing first month, free of charge, for customers new and old. There is a limit of 10 free nodes per customer.</p><p><strong>What can customers do if they think they deserve more attention?</strong><br
/> They can contact me directly at <a
href="mailto:rghf@vps.net">rghf@vps.net</a>.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/">VPS.net issues: what&#8217;s up and what will they do about it?</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/HhcxS3yOFC4" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:37:"http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"87";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:90:"http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vps-net-issues";}s:7:"summary";s:771:"<p>When I posted my interview with Terry Myers about cloud hosting, I wasn't really prepared for the backlash that would come in on that post. Quite a few people responded and a lot of them weren't too happy. On top of that, there were several instances of downtime in both the AMS and several US [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/">VPS.net issues: what&#8217;s up and what will they do about it?</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:8539:"<p>When I posted <a
href="http://yoast.com/cloud-hosting/">my interview with Terry Myers about cloud hosting</a>, I wasn't really prepared for the backlash that would come in on that post. Quite a few people responded and a lot of them weren't too happy. On top of that, there were several instances of downtime in both the AMS and several US clouds over the last week. As you might know, I'm an affiliate for VPS.net, so I get a bit better every time they get a new client through me, but I was seriously debating whether that was still a wise choice. In fact, some people were telling me that I should stop recommending them altogether.</p><p>Now, I've been with VPS.net for quite some time, from their very beginning in fact, and I've always liked the service and the people working there. I'm not one to easily leave and on top of that, having had issues at other hosting companies before, I know that things are bound to go wrong at some point. So, I decided to confront my contacts at VPS.net and "talk to the boss". That boss is someone I hadn't spoken to before, Rus Foster. Rus has recently (7 weeks ago) joined VPS.net as their new Managing Director, although he's been in the VPS business for years, replacing Nick Nelson, who's gone higher up in the UK2 Group.</p><p>As you can see, I asked him some, I think, rather tough questions. I was happy with the answers I got, and must say that the changes he's talking about below on the AMS cloud have indeed had a very positive effect on my <a
href="http://yoast.nl">yoast.nl</a> server.</p><h2>Interview with Rus Foster, MD of VPS.net</h2><p><strong>Hi Rus, thanks for agreeing to this interview. My goal is to shed some light on what is currently causing all the issues around VPS.net. First of all, it seems as though every day, somewhere in the world, a VPS.net SAN dies. Some locations have more issues than others, but in general, it's been quite bad lately. What's causing that? And, more importantly, what will you do about it?</strong></p><p>Start with the easy questions eh? Nothing like whats your favourite colour? :)</p><p>Seriously though yes there have been SAN issues on some of our newer clouds.</p><p>Some of the SANS in multiple locations have been showing instability issues caused by the software running on them. As such we are starting to undertake a very aggressive upgrade schedule to move the SAN software to the latest version. Coupled with this we are also upgrading the storage network within each cloud to increase I/O speeds.</p><p>We are however also looking to start using the enterprise class Nexenta storage solution on our new clouds which is engineered fundamentally different to our current SAN solutions. The upshot of this is that the system is much more resilient to failure meaning in the event of a failure there will be no noticeable effect on customers.</p><p>This will be going live on our next cloud but more about that later .....</p><p><strong>When you say "very aggressive upgrade schedule", what do you mean, exactly?</strong></p><p>We have identified 6 clouds where we feel significant upgrades, or full migrations to new facilities are required. We are doing 1-2 clouds a week and aim to have everything completed within the next 6 weeks, if not sooner. This is a significant investment in our infrastructure to increase resiliency and performance.</p><p><strong>To be fair, some people would say that it's a significant investment to make it work the way it should... Which clouds are we talking about?</strong></p><p>There were decisions made in the past that were right at the time. Those choices however no longer reflect customers expectations as cloud hosting is becoming more mainstream. We are making decisions now that prepare us for the future allowing easier service enhancements to be rolled out to all our customers new and old. We are targeting clouds in both the US and Europe. Some of the work, for example on our Amsterdam cloud, has been completed.</p><p><strong>Could you say that maybe you've grown a bit too fast? (Which would be partly my fault, perhaps, sorry about that)</strong></p><p>We learn from mistakes. There is nothing wrong with growing fast. There is something wrong with not managing that growth. I would say that is where as a company we found ourselves tripping over our own feet. My personal focus is split into both pushing the growth of the company, looking at exciting new markets and technologies but also its vitally important that we look after our current customers. This is reflected in us bringing back such old favourites as sales live chat but also focussing on how we can help existing customers. This include things such as the cloud upgrades as well as some exciting upgrades we have coming for all customers.</p><p><strong>Apart from the SANs, another issue seems to have been the fact that you weren't responding during those outages, either on tickets, or on Twitter, with the status blog being deafeningly silent too. What are you going to do about that?</strong></p><p>Communications. Communications. Communications. Nothing travels as fast as bad news. We need to be quicker. We need to be more open. We are taking steps to do that. We are now proactively emailing customers in the event of an outage. We are making it the sole responsibility for the manager on duty to communicate with customers. The status blog and twitter are important fields of communication but they can't give customised responses to each customers. Our support ticket system is in place for that.</p><p><strong>I've seen you jump in on more and more tickets yourself, are you one of those managers on duty?</strong></p><p>Its best to lead by example. I never ask anyone to do something that I wouldn't be willing to do myself. When things get busy in an outage its really a matter of needing all hands to the pumps. Thats why you will see me replying to all sorts of support tickets from simple reboots to full implementations of load balancing.</p><p><strong>I get the feeling, talking to some of the people who bought a VPS, that they actually shouldn't have a VPS. They have two types of downtime, the one caused by themselves as they don't really know their way around a web server, and the ones caused by SANs or other hardware failures at VPS.net. I think that for people who have a lot of those first issues, the new Cloud Hosting, or a somewhat faster WestHost package, both a bit more managed, would be better for them.</strong></p><p><strong>Do you agree? If people think that's true for them, is there any way for you to help in that?</strong></p><p>We all love power. As a petrol head I dream of having a TVR Sagaris on the drive but do I need the power? Of course not. Some people do however need that power. It's all about what matches your individual needs. If people just have a few websites that need to "just work" then a VPS isn't always the best choice and there are other things in our current, and upcoming, product range that could suit them better. If however people do require large amounts of customisation VPS are still a good way to go. If they do require that little bit of hand holding they can always get an On-Demand ticket for a one time issue or pop management on top for unlimited help.</p><p>If a customer wants to move to another product we can move a reasonable number of sites free of charge.</p><p><strong>Cool.</strong></p><p><strong>So you mentioned a new cloud... Tell me more.</strong></p><p>Yes our Japan cloud is the first cloud to be running our new Nexenta storage system and OnApp 2.2. It will also be live next week. Coupled with this, as we know people might be a bit wary of the new solution, we are doing first month, free of charge, for customers new and old. There is a limit of 10 free nodes per customer.</p><p><strong>What can customers do if they think they deserve more attention?</strong><br
/> They can contact me directly at <a
href="mailto:rghf@vps.net">rghf@vps.net</a>.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/vps-net-issues/">VPS.net issues: what&#8217;s up and what will they do about it?</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/HhcxS3yOFC4" height="1" width="1"/>";}i:18;a:14:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Discuss: The Page Title in WordPress Themes";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joostdevalk/~3/qFipqYSWUdc/";s:8:"comments";s:54:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:30:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Joost de Valk";}s:8:"category";s:9:"WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:24:"http://yoast.com/?p=7565";s:11:"description";s:797:"<p>WordPress is a content management system. It allows the user to create and edit types of content, be them post, pages or custom post types and classify them with taxonomies, categories, tags or custom taxonomies. Almost every bit of content a WordPress site outputs is easy to control by the maintainer of that WordPress site. [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/">Discuss: The Page Title in WordPress Themes</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:5272:"<p>WordPress is a content management system. It allows the user to create and edit types of content, be them post, pages or custom post types and classify them with taxonomies, categories, tags or custom taxonomies. Almost every bit of content a WordPress site outputs is easy to control by the maintainer of that WordPress site. Almost, because there's one piece of content that's notoriously hard to fully control. That bit is the title, often also called "meta title". The way that title is displayed is determined, in large part, by your theme.</p><p>Now I bring this up for a single reason: the title is <em>the</em> single most important piece of content on a page relating to SEO. In the most recent update of <a
href="http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-6">SEOmoz's ranking factors</a>, the presence of a keyword in the title was agreed by SEO's to have an "influence value" of 94.4 out of 100. That's huge.</p><p>In WordPress' most recent default theme, dubbed Twenty Eleven, the content of that title tag is determined by the following code:</p><pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php
/*
 * Print the &lt;title&gt; tag based on what is being viewed.
 */
global $page, $paged;

wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

// Add the blog name.
bloginfo( 'name' );

// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
if ( $site_description &amp;&amp; ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
	echo &quot; | $site_description&quot;;

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( $paged &gt;= 2 || $page &gt;= 2 )
	echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</pre><p>With all due respect, I hate that. The reason I hate that is that it means that on the front page of your site, no matter what you do, your title will always be of this format:</p><p>NAME OF SITE | DESCRIPTION OF SITE</p><p>On other pages, it will be:</p><p>NAME OF ARTICLE | NAME OF SITE</p><p>So we effectively hardcode in our design templates the way we output one of our most important bits of content on a page. That's very far from the separation of design &amp; content that the web community at large has been striving for over the last few decades.</p><p>If you're now thinking, "hey, I'm using that theme and I have another page title for my homepage", you might be right, I'll get to that. The reason you're able to do that is also the reason why I regularly get questions about my WordPress SEO plugin and theme X, Y or Z having issues with the title.</p><h2>The bad solution: Output Buffering the page title</h2><p>I don't want to spend this entire article explaining what output buffering is, so if you don't know, <a
href="http://www.phpcodebase.com/php-output-buffering-explained/">this is a rather simple explanation</a>. This process is used by most big SEO plugins. What they do is: catch the output of a page, look for the <code>&lt;title&gt;</code>, fix the contents of that title, return the output. For the record: if you check the "Force rewrite titles" box on the Titles page of my SEO plugin, it does just that. The reason my plugin has had issues with titles is exactly that: I don't have that box checked by default.</p><p>Now one can argue over whether output buffering in general is a bad idea or not, the way it's done here is arguably bad, although the only current working solution. It uses way more resources than should be needed to change the title <em>and</em>, possibly worse, it effectively disallows other plugins that don't do the buffering to have an influence on the title. On top of that, in my testing, on most servers it adds about 0.5 seconds to the page load time.</p><h2>The good solution: something new in core</h2><p>For quite a while, I thought that changing the way we, as a community, use <code>wp_title</code> would be a fix to this. I no longer think that it is. The reason for that is that it would create all sorts of other issues, with themes and plugins alike. In fact, Andrew Nacin already tried to do that a while back, see <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/15195">this changeset</a>, and reverted the changeset because the output buffering plugins broke because of it. I think we need a new function, specifically aimed at displaying the page title. Ideally this function would hook into wp_head and would be using the theme_supports functionality.</p><p>I've been working with Andrew on a patch, which has been heavily discussed on <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18548">this Trac ticket</a>. I have good hopes that something along these lines will go into core, but would love to know your opinion.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/">Discuss: The Page Title in WordPress Themes</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/joostdevalk/~4/qFipqYSWUdc" height="1" width="1"/>";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:50:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/feed/";}s:5:"slash";a:1:{s:8:"comments";s:2:"27";}s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:116:"http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordpress-themes-page-title";}s:7:"summary";s:797:"<p>WordPress is a content management system. It allows the user to create and edit types of content, be them post, pages or custom post types and classify them with taxonomies, categories, tags or custom taxonomies. Almost every bit of content a WordPress site outputs is easy to control by the maintainer of that WordPress site. [...]</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/">Discuss: The Page Title in WordPress Themes</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-hosting/">WordPress hosting</a>!</p>";s:12:"atom_content";s:5272:"<p>WordPress is a content management system. It allows the user to create and edit types of content, be them post, pages or custom post types and classify them with taxonomies, categories, tags or custom taxonomies. Almost every bit of content a WordPress site outputs is easy to control by the maintainer of that WordPress site. Almost, because there's one piece of content that's notoriously hard to fully control. That bit is the title, often also called "meta title". The way that title is displayed is determined, in large part, by your theme.</p><p>Now I bring this up for a single reason: the title is <em>the</em> single most important piece of content on a page relating to SEO. In the most recent update of <a
href="http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-6">SEOmoz's ranking factors</a>, the presence of a keyword in the title was agreed by SEO's to have an "influence value" of 94.4 out of 100. That's huge.</p><p>In WordPress' most recent default theme, dubbed Twenty Eleven, the content of that title tag is determined by the following code:</p><pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php
/*
 * Print the &lt;title&gt; tag based on what is being viewed.
 */
global $page, $paged;

wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

// Add the blog name.
bloginfo( 'name' );

// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
if ( $site_description &amp;&amp; ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
	echo &quot; | $site_description&quot;;

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( $paged &gt;= 2 || $page &gt;= 2 )
	echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</pre><p>With all due respect, I hate that. The reason I hate that is that it means that on the front page of your site, no matter what you do, your title will always be of this format:</p><p>NAME OF SITE | DESCRIPTION OF SITE</p><p>On other pages, it will be:</p><p>NAME OF ARTICLE | NAME OF SITE</p><p>So we effectively hardcode in our design templates the way we output one of our most important bits of content on a page. That's very far from the separation of design &amp; content that the web community at large has been striving for over the last few decades.</p><p>If you're now thinking, "hey, I'm using that theme and I have another page title for my homepage", you might be right, I'll get to that. The reason you're able to do that is also the reason why I regularly get questions about my WordPress SEO plugin and theme X, Y or Z having issues with the title.</p><h2>The bad solution: Output Buffering the page title</h2><p>I don't want to spend this entire article explaining what output buffering is, so if you don't know, <a
href="http://www.phpcodebase.com/php-output-buffering-explained/">this is a rather simple explanation</a>. This process is used by most big SEO plugins. What they do is: catch the output of a page, look for the <code>&lt;title&gt;</code>, fix the contents of that title, return the output. For the record: if you check the "Force rewrite titles" box on the Titles page of my SEO plugin, it does just that. The reason my plugin has had issues with titles is exactly that: I don't have that box checked by default.</p><p>Now one can argue over whether output buffering in general is a bad idea or not, the way it's done here is arguably bad, although the only current working solution. It uses way more resources than should be needed to change the title <em>and</em>, possibly worse, it effectively disallows other plugins that don't do the buffering to have an influence on the title. On top of that, in my testing, on most servers it adds about 0.5 seconds to the page load time.</p><h2>The good solution: something new in core</h2><p>For quite a while, I thought that changing the way we, as a community, use <code>wp_title</code> would be a fix to this. I no longer think that it is. The reason for that is that it would create all sorts of other issues, with themes and plugins alike. In fact, Andrew Nacin already tried to do that a while back, see <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/15195">this changeset</a>, and reverted the changeset because the output buffering plugins broke because of it. I think we need a new function, specifically aimed at displaying the page title. Ideally this function would hook into wp_head and would be using the theme_supports functionality.</p><p>I've been working with Andrew on a patch, which has been heavily discussed on <a
href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18548">this Trac ticket</a>. I have good hopes that something along these lines will go into core, but would love to know your opinion.</p><p><a
href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-themes-page-title/">Discuss: The Page Title in WordPress Themes</a> is a post by <a
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href="http://yoast.com/ads-social-sharing/">Are ads preventing your posts from being shared?</a> is a post by <a
rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/">Joost de Valk</a> on <a
href="http://yoast.com">Yoast - Tweaking Websites</a>.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don't want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on <a
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