SEO circles are all abuzz over the recent updates made by Google to its index. Names like Penguin and Panda have been flying back and forth. Some people are fairly upset, claiming that certain updates were misapplied, resulting in undeserved penalties for certain forms of optimization. Google’s Matt Cutts even admitted that one of the ‘updates’ which had SEOs howling was actually a bug. What do these Google updates mean for...

WordPress is widely and quite rightly regarded as being an excellent platform for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Straight out of the box, WordPress provides a plethora of features for obtaining optimal search rankings. The flip side of this in-built optimization is that the pool of Search Engine Optimized web sites has increased right along with the ballooning popularity of WordPress itself. I’ve compiled here a list of five simple,...