Matt Cutts has released his ‘Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers‘ powerpoint presentation this morning. This is the slideshow he presented at the Wordpress WordCamp in July.
He talks about the wordpress plugins he is considering using on his blog and also what you should do if you move domain.
Heres a preview of some of the slides :
My WordPress Wishlist
- Drop RSS 0.92 feed
- Prevent content at multiple url aliases
- Better caching without WP Cache
- Drop version string in header.php
- Put a blank index.html in /plugins/ directory. When a plugin has a security hole, it’s easy to see who to hack
- Protect /wp-admin/ more
SEO tips: Webmaster console
- Test out robots.txt before pushing live
- Submit an authenticated spam report
- Url removal tool: remove urls/directories for 6 months
- See your backlinks (helps moving to a new domain)
- See 404 and crawl errors
- See crawl stats
- Decide www vs. non-www
You can download the presentation from here (via this page).
BeachBum | August 10th, 2007 at 10:27 am #
Awesome, thanks for the info and link. I saw a post earlier today where Matt talks about dashes vs. hyphens. Good stuff all around!
BeachBum
Michael from Pro Blog Design | August 10th, 2007 at 10:34 am #
Thanks for the link. I downloaded the video a few days ago, but the slides are a nice summary.
He had a lot of good tips here.
The Buxr Widget | August 10th, 2007 at 11:39 am #
I’ve had no problems ranking one of my major sites without making www vs non-www decision? What about you guys??
Quad City SEO | August 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am #
I can’t believe in this day and age that www or non-www would make a difference on either of the big 3. It still does in some cases though. As I’m typing this I can see a difference in Yahoo back links on one of my sites, on another monitor. They’ll all come around eventually.
SEO Freelancer | December 4th, 2007 at 6:00 am #
Neat Tutorial. Please use white hat techniques as mentioned guys.