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GoDaddy WordPress Coupon BDAYPRESS for Unlimited WordPress Hosting

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With WordPress you have the option of choosing a free account or obtaining your own domain and hosting. Of course some free accounts allow you to mask or redirect a domain but usually with a monthly fee. Having your own domain name is important for search engines and branding. However you may not want to deal with installing WordPress yourself. Therefore GoDaddy has a WordPress solution for you and a special WordPress hosting acount. You get the hosting, along with your own domain and they have it setup already. Here is the GoDaddy Coupon for Unlimited WordPress hosting good until 6/4/10. Unlimited transfer is a nice account when you are growing or anticipating growth.

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New WordPress Stats

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WordPress announced two new statistic features in the Site Stats. Here is the official WordPress post.


Home Page Stats
You may not have realized but the statistics did not show your home page in the past. In other words the front page of your site was not listed in the statistics. Therefore you would not know, other than through a statistics provider such as Google analytics, how your home page performed.

Posts On Which Day
If you host your blog on WordPress.com you will also, as you move your mouse on the statistics, see which posts were created on each day. A nice feature, however you can obviously also find this by simply looking within the posts which are sorted by date.

Adding Keywords and Description to a WordPress Template

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Description and keywords are important tags for your website. Search engines look at both of these tags as one of the many ways in which to determine how to rank your sites relevance.

In the WordPress installations and themes, the keyword and description code is not in the template. The code is simple to copy and paste and looks like this:

< meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword, keyword, keyword” />
< meta name="description" content="description of the site" />

To determine if the template you are using in WordPress has these tags or not, follow these steps:

  • Login to your WordPress admin
  • Choose the Presentation menu item
  • Choose the Theme Editor menu item
  • on the right hand menu choose the header or sometimes header.php

Now you scroll down through the code to determine if the items above are present. If not, you then place them between the < head> and < /head> tags. To make it easier you may paste them just above the tag.

The keywords should be keywords that you would like your site found under. A tool to help uncover keywords is Wordtracker (get a Free Trial here). Add you keywords separated by a comma.

Next write a concise site description also using keywords.

It is that simple.

WordPress URLs and Creating Permalinks

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If you had your choice would you want a link to a page on your site to have the following format:

  • http://www.longest.com/?p=1, OR
  • http://www.longest.com/2007/09/11/google-affiliate-program/

The latter if you would like to increase your pages relevancy in search engines such as Google.

Instead of just a variable as a number your link will be more relevant using the keywords from your post title. In WordPress you navigate to the Options menu, then choose Permalinks and pick the format you would like. See the screen shot below for the setup.

WordPress Permalink

Permalinks are permanent links, meaning the URL to that page will not change. These links will receive a higher search engine ranking with the title of the post in the URL. This is an excellent way to receive higher search engine rankings and therefore natural search traffic without paying for the clicks.