You might have seen star ratings in search results while looking for movie and software reviews in Google. These star ratings are inserted by the particular websites using rich snippets. Google announced the support for rich snippets long back in 2009. Rich snippets are intended to give extra information about an article; like author, publishing date, rating, price, etc. Wonder how you could add it your website? Well, if you are a blogger using WordPress platform you may add rich snippets to your posts using a plugin.

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WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms in the world. Since WordPress uses server side scripting languages like PHP to process pages, its little bit slower than websites on Google Blogger platform. But we can speed up WordPress blogs by using optimized themes and plugins like WordPress Super cache. WPsimpy is one such theme that when used can speed up WordPress pages. One of the fastest WordPress themes, WPsimpy uses only valid CSS for its design. It has single sidebar and 3 column footer, both widgetised. WordPress itself is seo optimized. WPsimpy is designed by referring WordPress Codex to maintain the seo friendliness of WordPress pages. Its Blue-Gray color combination and magazine style design is well suited for blogs running Google Adsense ™ and other advertising services.

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Microsoft recently launched Bing search engine by renaming their two year old Live search. Bing is getting a mixed reaction from both public and geeks. I have already shared my experience on Bing, which is still worse in some aspects. However, it seems that Microsoft is putting the lot of efforts to bring a Google look alike in Bing. Bing now shows news results and indexes pages almost instantly. There is also an improvement in search speed. Another surprise is the traffic it brings. Recently, I have seen sudden depletion in my incoming search engine traffic from Yahoo and a rise from Bing side. So I was forced to sign up and Submit websites to Bing webmaster center, which earlier I ignored. Here I will share how you can sign up with Bing Webmaster center, submit a website /sitemap and to add Bing search box.
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Few months back , We had a post on seo tips and tricks for blogs hosted in Blogger .Today I am adding some more tips to this list . Hope this would help the new Bloggers to get to start with search engine optimization(seo) .

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By default, WordPress category URL is accompanied with a word category. This looks like a bad structural organization and is less SEO friendly.

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Some web forums permit users to put signatures or comments on posts made by them. As you might know, getting links from related forums is an important SEO strategy that will benefit your site in a long term. A dofollow forum is a community that allows dofollow links in the signature space. Search engines will not crawl nofollow links-so while participating in a forum for basic search engine promotion always check whether it’s a nofollow or dofollow.

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