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WordPress SEO Premium 1.0

We’re very proud to bring this release to you today: WordPress SEO premium 1.0 is here. This premium version adds a redirect module to the WordPress SEO plugin that allows you to manage your redirects from within your WordPress installation. It also allows you to retrieve your site’s crawl errors from Google Webmaster Tools and…

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WordPress 3.8.1 Maintenance Release

After six weeks and more than 9.3 million downloads of WordPress 3.8, we’re pleased to announce WordPress 3.8.1 is now available. Version 3.8.1 is a maintenance releases that addresses 31 bugs in 3.8, including various fixes and improvements for the new dashboard design and new themes admin screen. An issue with taxonomy queries in WP_Query […]

The tools we use for our site reviews

In our site reviews we check a website from multiple angles, and because of that we use a variety of tools to determine what to advise. Some tools are for analysing, some for clearing things up when we are in doubt. It only seems logical to provide you with a list of some of these…

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Link building, SEO & branding

If you want to rank a site for a keyword that’s even remotely competitive in search engines like Bing and Google, you need links. Link building has thus been one of the important pillars of most SEO campaigns over the last decade. Getting links is a non trivial business, and because of that, the SEO industry…

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This WordPress-driven site is for a South Island, New Zealand engineering, surveying, and development company. Urban Legend web was commissioned by Publica DDM to create the theme and functionality from supplied PSD files. We used … 

How Long Does It Take to Recover Your Site From Being Hacked, Google-Wise [Case Study]

A couple of months ago, my domain got hacked. Kind of. I mean, the domain itself didn’t get hacked directly, but the problem was the server it was hosted on. Back then, I was a HostGator customer, a mistake I will never make again. Just to give you a quick heads-up on that situation, HostGator doesn’t care that much about their customers’ safety. So in my case, they allowed for a spam forum to get installed on my domain without my knowledge.

How Long Does It Take to Recover Your Site From Being Hacked, Google-Wise [Case Study] | NewInternetOrder.com

Shopping cart abandonment

We optimize our checkout process continually. To do so, we keep track of our shopping cart abandonment. Why won’t people complete their purchase, even after they have already added your products to their shopping carts? That’s what we’ll discuss in this article. Some of the reasons for shopping cart abandonment are so obvious, that you would almost […]

Should we move to an all HTTPS web?

There was a bit of tweeting in the SEO community today because Bing introduced an HTTPS version of their site and people thought that would mean they’d lose their keyword data. That’s not true, if you take the right precautions. I thought I’d write a bit of an intro in how all this works so…

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7 Quite Deadly Indicators That Your Online Business Website Is In Bad Shape

We all desire some recognition, don’t we? Some online popularity, preferably profits, and overall stardom…things like that. However, the road to success can be long and difficult, and at some point, we can stumble upon some disturbing signs that we might not be going in the best of directions. I’ve had a number of sites failing in the past, so I know what I’m talking about.

7 Quite Deadly Indicators That Your Online Business Website Is In Bad Shape | newInternetOrder.com

Why we’re offering Conversion Reviews

As of January 2nd we’re offering Conversion Reviews, in which we review your website and give you a list of improvements to increase your conversion rates. We’ve come to the conclusion we needed to offer these Conversion Reviews as a result of my own activities within Yoast, as well as our experience with the Website…

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