There are often pages on a site that you don’t want to be indexed. If you have the same text on multiple pages, of you have a generic privacy notice or disclaimer which you use across multiple sites, using the robots “NOINDEX” meta tag on those pages will prevent a duplicate content slap from Google.
This is a particular problem when using a system such as Wordpress as a CMS, since by default there are archives (date archive, author archive etc.) which can be seen as duplicate content by the …

Finally, part three of this series on blogging and we’re ready to start our blog.  In part one we looked at what a blog is, why they are so popular, and why they are a great way to start an online business.  Yesterday in part two we discussed what to blog about, and we looked at some methods for researching niches.  Today we are ready to set up our blog and make our first posts.
Free or self hosted blog?
There are a number of decisions to make when starting a new …

Wordpress is a fantastic blogging platform, and as I showed you yesterday, it can be a great CMS platform too. Wordpress works great as it is, but one of its greatest assets is how extendable it is. There are hundreds of great plugins for Wordpress, but these are the 12 most useful in my opinion to anyone building an online business:
Askimet
Coming as standard with recent versions of Wordpress, you simply need to enable it from the plugins page. You’ll also need a Wordpress API key which you …

The success of your online business, no matter what model you use, relies on one thing – traffic. There are essentially two ways to get that traffic: pay for it (PPC, CPM advertising etc.) or get it free (which essentially boils down to SEO). SEO simply stands for Search Engine Optimisation and is the process of making your website more ‘valuable’ to the search engines and hence likely to rank higher for your keyterms. Here are my top 5 free tools to help in the SEO process:
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