New York Search Engine Optimization
SEO July 24th, 2008
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This post is a ranking experiment for search engine optimization services in New York. If you found this post through Google, Yahoo, or MSN well then it’s working
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Since Squareoak is located in New York City it’d be nice to rank for the keyword phrase which is the title of this post. Not that location matters when working remotely but still, local clients are always nice. After a bit of KW research I found that search engine optimization pairs geographically with Michigan first (which I thought was a bit strange) and Seattle second in terms of search volume. New York was not in the list so I guess that volume’s a little low, but no matter. Google is telling me that there are 3.1 million instances of this keyword phrase in its index.
There are a few things I’ve done to maximize this post’s exposure using only wordpress and without any sort of link building. Using the All in One SEO Wordpress plugin, we’re autogenerating the description tags from the first paragraph of the post. Hence the slightly cheesy intro. Then, I’ve gone to Wordpress’ Manage tab and then to the Writing sub tab. Scroll down and you’ll see the services that Wordpress pings when you publish a post. The default service is http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ but I’ve updated mine to include the following:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.onejavastreet.com/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.pingmyblog.com/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
If you decide to enter all of these services into your Wordpress you’ll have to be aware that Wordpress naturally pings all of these services the instant you press the publish button. Wordpress will churn and churn until all of these services are pinged and more often than not, Wordpress will time out. So what we’ll need to do is install the No Ping Wait Wordpress plugin which does exactly what it sounds like.
After we get this in order the post is published and I view it through my feed reader. I’m checking out my own feed because with Feedburner you can add Feed Flair. My flair is setup to include a great site called outside.in which will allow me to geo tag this post.
So that’s it. That’s all I’m going to do for now so we’ll see how well this works. And if you’re worried about content scrapers, let them do a little link building for you by adding the RSS footer Wordpress plugin.
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