Big Foot Web Marketing

I quite like the Daily Top 10 Posts Plugin. I find it quite useful to take a quick peel at what posts are doing very well or breaking out. The plugin keeps track of post page views in a 24 hours day stating at midnight.

You can display post count for all to see as well as place code in sidebar or widget to show the top 10 posts. I don’t do this and set the daily top 10 post to “noshow” in the snippet of code in readme file for the plugin.

You can view your “top 10 posts” in the dashboard it will list them in descending order as well as give you view count.

I have found it useful on a couple of high traffic sites to show more than my top 10 posts using the Daily Top Ten plugin and set it to show me the top 50 but you can set for any number quite easily.

How To Increase Number of Posts to Show Using Daily Top Ten Plugin

Go into the the plugin to edit. Find two snippets of cod that define the number of posts to display:

The first set of code displays the numebr of posts in your dashboard:
$widgets = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from $table_name inner join $table_posts on $table_posts.ID=$table_name.postnum WHERE time = '$nowisnow' and postcount > 0 and post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY postcount DESC LIMIT 10");
and change the DESC LIMIT 10 to DESC LIMIT 25
or whatever number you like.

Find the next snippet and do same:
Thsi snippet dispalys posts on your site for all to see .
$widgets = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from $table_name_all inner join $table_posts on $table_posts.ID=$table_name_all.postnum WHERE postcount > 0 and post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY postcount DESC LIMIT 10");

Change the DESC LIMIT 10 to DESC LIMIT 25 ( or number you choose)

When you go to you dashboard you should see your new top 25 (or 50, etc) listed.

You can also reduce the number of posts to display with Daily Top 10 plugin. You may only want to show you top 3 or 5 posts to visitors in your sidebar. Just change the second number to the value you want to display in sidebar.

Why would knowing your top posts be useful to you?
Take your top 10 posts an expand on the idea. If your page one best brownie recipes is ding well try best squares or best cookies.
If you are aware of what people are looking for then you can use this information to expand your blog and your traffic/readership.

Tags: SEO Tools, WordPress Plugins by Lisa Stewart
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Yes I know its Thursday. I thought of the idea yesterday and Thursday’s Tool didn’t sound as good as Tuesday’s Tool.

Google announced that they are adding a robot text generator to their webmaster tool line up.

While I do like that Google is heightening awareness level of certain elements of a website the average user may not know about ( like robot.txt files and xml sitemaps) I am also wary about just how much Google KNOWS about me.
I am uneasy that I have to login in and register a site that I want to create a tool for. A post for another day, however.

A robot.tx file is a little file that tells who and where they can go on your site- any site not just a blog.
it can be a simple as allow everyone in or putting up stops signs to certain pages or areas you don’t want followed and indexed.

Do I Need a Robot.txt File On My Server?

No. You site will be crawled and indexed without one- all the pages will accessible. A robot.txt file lets you shape they way they crawl your site and BLOCK specific content.

Why Would You Want to Stop Search Engines From Crawling A Site?

Nature of the blog is to publish content. So when you create a post it will be slotted into different spot. The content will be sorted into archives and categories and by those zillions of little tags you have created. Duplicate content.
Duplicate content is to be avoided- some of the content will be dropped from index , dumped into supplement results or steal page rank.
I will also block or disallow section of my site – no need for Google to index my admin section, javascript or css. Those sections might be taking a piece of the page rank pie that you want to to share.

Google’s Robot.txt Generator

You can create a Robot,txt file in Google’s Webmaster Tool’s Actually bit tricky to find- you need to login and click on your verified site (and frankly creating your own robot.txt file would be faster). It lets you decide basic allows/disallows.

I find it just as easy and less intrusive to make your own robot.txt file. Basically create in notepad and upload to your WordPress root directory.

This is good robot.txt to use in a WordPress blog, it is my generic robot.txt file that i tweak as unnecessary.
I will say that to avoid duplicate content I do prefer to use dofollow and nofollow plugins.

Copy and edit text below or download

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.js
Disallow: /*.png
Disallow: /*trackback
Disallow: /*.css
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/robots-generator/

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/search-engine/robots-txt.asp

http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/robots.txt/

download http://www.bigfootwebmarketing.com/downloads/robot.zip

Tags: Internet Marketing and Blogs, SEO Tools, Tuesday's Tool by Lisa Stewart
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LOVE this plugin! In EASILY allows for custom title tags in all of your wordpress posts. Instead of trying to weave keywords awkwardly into your post titles- you can use this to create custom title tags when posting in wordpress.

Download the plugin for WordPress 2 , SEO Title Tag 1.0, here .

and follow installation instructions below. If you are not comfortable editing code- don’t worry- it is quite simple- follow directions step-by-step and you should have no problems. Please post in comments sections if you are having difficulty and I will do my best to solve.

1. Upload seo-title-tag.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Under Presentation -> Theme Editor in the WordPress admin, select “Header” from the list and replace:

   <title><?php bloginfo('name'); wp_title(); ?></title>

   (or whatever you have in your <title> container – it will vary from theme to theme ) with:

   <title><?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) { seo_title_tag(); } else { bloginfo('name'); wp_title();} ?></title>

4. Under Options -> SEO Title Tag, specify a title tag for your home page which will override your blog name as the home page’s title tag. You can also configure here whether you want all the rest of your site’s title tags to have your blog name, or a shortened version of your blog name, or neither, appended to the end.
5. Define category descriptions in the admin under Manage -> Categories. When defined, these will be used in place of category names in the title tag on category pages (e.g. yourdomain.com/archives/category/uncategorized/)
6. As desired, you can add a custom field called title_tag (or whatever you alternatively specified as the custom field name under Options -> SEO Title Tag) to any post or Page which will be used as a replacement title tag, specifically and only for that page. Don’t like the title tag for a particular post? No problem: just define a custom field when writing or editing a post or page in the WordPress admin. Custom Fields is above the “Delete this page” button. You may need to hit the plus sign to the right of Custom Fields to expand that section. The Key is title_tag (unless you’ve changed it in the Options) and the Value is whatever you want that post’s/page’s title tag to be.

Tags: Internet Marketing and Blogs, SEO Tools, WordPress Blog by Lisa Stewart
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Giving away the farm here on some link building tips in post for Search Engine Guide, Secrets of a Professional Link Builder Part 1: It’s the Keywords, stupid

If you are just starting out promoting your site take a look- I discuss how to go about researching keywords- a great foundation for your link building campaign.

Tags: Internet Marketing and Blogs, SEO Tools by Lisa Stewart
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