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Many self-proclaimed SEO experts believe that hiding WordPress date helps in improving search engine rankings. I supported their strategy until I started thinking more about user experience and rich snippets. If you’ve come across a post that claims to improve SERP position after removing dates from the blog, you’re being misled. Google knows when you’ve published a blog post through the sitemap file that has both published/modified dates. So you can’t fool it. ...

Plagiarism in the online world is the art of stealing others content without the copyright holder’s permission. It is bad for bloggers because duplicate content can affect their blog’s search engine visibility. Bloggers are not the only professionals worried about Plagiarism. Teachers always fear that their students might copy the homework from any one of the billions of sites available in Google’s search index. If you think that your hard work has been copied or if you’re a teacher who wants to check the genuineness of student’s homework, use the below tools to find all websites that have duplicate content. ...

Every content management system has a login page, and dashboard that allows bloggers and webmasters to manage the data published on their site and WordPress is no exception. This page is relevant. Thus it will always be on the attack of website hackers that may/may not use automated program to gain access to your site’s dashboard. The default slug to log in to your WordPress dashboard is wp-login.php, and every hacker and WordPress user knows it knows it. Thus if you’re using the default password or if you’re using weak login credentials, your site might get easily hacked (You can remove the default user i.e., admin through the users page in WP). ...

404 errors in WordPress is caused when a user or a search bot is not able to find a page on your site. This page might be linked from your blog post or another website. According to Google webmaster tools, these errors won’t affect your site’s performance in the search engine, but you should try to get rid of them for a better user experience. Sometimes, a lot of WordPress 404 errors can do more harm than any other factor. For example, the bounce rate will be very high as users didn’t find the page they wanted to access, they’ll hit the back button of the browser immediately without spending much time on your blog. Thus it’s a good idea to get rid of 404 errors. You can use the below tips and plugins for the same. ...

Blogger might not be offering too many fancy and responsive templates as WordPress, but it is a powerful CMS. In WordPress directory, there are a lot of plugins but in blogger, there are a few but useful widgets. Thus if you’re a person who doesn’t like to explore and try out new things, Blogger is the best CMS as you just have to add your favorite widgets by navigating to the layout page in Blogger and on that page you’ve to click on add gadget link. ...

Registering a domain name is one of the most important activities of a person who wants to make an online career. But managing it and setting up a hosting service can be tricky. Name of a domain should be chosen wisely on the basis of below criteria. Keywords: A DN should have one or 2 keywords that will kelp users understand what your blog/site is all about. The keywords should not contain the names of large enterprises (and their products). For example Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Windows, etc. If you ignore this, you’ll face legal action in the future. The company might register a DMCA complaint against your site which will force search engines to remove your blog from their index. ...

Adsense is being used on millions of blogs, and it is a source of online income for many bloggers. Have you ever wondered how the webmasters manage to add advertisements to the best and hottest positions? Most blogs are using either WordPress or Blogger CMS. Blogger comes with an inbuilt utility to insert ads in various popular areas, i.e., above, middle and below post content. On WordPress, you don’t have to be a PHP and HTML programmer to add Google AdSense unit to your favorite position. Simply install any of the below best Adsense plugins for WordPress and follow its setup instructions. ...

Backlinks from social networks like Facebook, Google plus, twitter, etc are nofollow. But you’ll be shocked to know that Google uses data from social networks to rank websites in the search engine regardless whether the link is dofollow or nofollow. When someone reads and article on your site and if he/she shares it in a group/page or on his public timeline, this link will be considered as a vote of trust. Thus, if your blog articles are shared 100s of time, there’s no doubt that your site will rank in the 1st 2 or 3 pages of Google. Making people share content is not a piece of cake. The user will not share your blog post unless he has a reason to do so. ...

Adsense program accepts websites that have quality content or very high organic search traffic. If your site doesn’t have any of these 2, instead of wasting your time in applying for Adsense account, use any of the below techniques to monetize your site. I’ve not recommended ad networks like Infolinks, Chitika, Vigilink, media.net as they pay you just one or 2 pennies for traffic from non-English speaking countries. These advertising networks demotivate bloggers due to their low payouts. Hence many bloggers quit their online careers within 5 or 6 months. ...

As WordPress content management system has a commenting and trackback system, it’s always on the target of spammers. Trackback links are added below the post content. A spammer who wants his website or YouTube videos to rank high in Google or Bing will drop useless comments with some URLs. If you’re allowing dofollow backlinks, link juice will be transferred to the commentators website. To avoid this, install and activate the ultimate nofollow plugin on your blog. This plugin will allow you to convert all dofollow links in comments to nofollow. To block spam comments on your WordPress website, you install any of the below free plugins: ...