WordPress almost setup for SEO

Posted by David Whitehouse

Just been going through the Yoast WordPress SEO guide

I’m about halfway through, it’s only taken me an hour! Well worth it I reckon.

Apologies to my friends, but I will be removing my blogroll and putting a post about each of you instead – hope you don’t mind!

How to setup Twitter to promote your WordPress blog

Posted by David Whitehouse

I’ve been looking into all the difference Twitter related plugins for WordPress, all the different services starting up for Twitter and thinking about how you can promote yourself through Twitter. As a result of this I’ve come up with what I think is the perfect setup for promoting your WordPress blog through Twitter. Basically, here is my setup:

1. I use Tweetmeme (the little icon top right of this post) to try and encourage to re-tweet my blog post.
2. I have TwitterUpdater, so that when I write a post and publish straight away, it announces it on my twitter feed.
3. When I do scheduled posts, TwitterUpdater won’t notify twitter, in order to do this you need to use TweetLater – which can also allow you to follow people who follow you, automatically.
4. I am using Twollow to follow other people, based on keywords.
5. I am also using TweetLater to keep an eye on keywords on Twitter, such as my name, domain name etc.

And that’s how you can maximise the amount of traffic you get from Twitter. If you have any more suggestions, please let me know. (P.S. This is a scheduled post – so it’s also a kind of a test to see if TweetLater and my WordPress plugin can get it right. It might go horrible wrong because my WordPress is an hour behind!)

Scheduled Posts on WordPress

Posted by David Whitehouse

One thing I never bothered using before working at Bronco is scheduled posts on WordPress. But this feature happens to be extremely powerful! You can get all your articles on for say the week, or month (whatever) and have it released whenever you want!!! If your in the UK and you want to target the US market – this is espcially useful if you are Tweeting your post at the same time.

Checking it out, the best time to Tweet is between 4pm-5pm (according to Malcolm) so from now on the majority of my posts will be at this time, every day :)

It would help if my web server’s system time wasn’t an hour behind though…

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