Google search operators and search tricks for SEO

Here are a few tips and tricks which will help you use Google more effectively. You can also use these techniques to carry out SEO research to find guest blogging opportunities, low-hanging link building fruit etc. Here is a full list of Google search operators.

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Completely backup your WordPress website

Backing up your WordPress website is obviously a very good idea but is something which is often neglected. Ideally you want to be able to automatically backup your entire WordPress site including your posts, pages, revisions, comments as well as all of your uploaded files such as images.
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SEO plugins for WordPress

There is a ton of SEO plugins for WordPress available (well, 943 at the time of writing) so choosing the best ones can be tricky. Here I’ll talk you through the plugins I use on both this site as well as my client’s WordPress based sites.
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Paid links on the BBC – an SEO controversy

A few months back I attended the excellent ProSEO Seminar in London. One of the speakers was Russell Smith, Editorial big cheese of the BBC News website. His talk on data journalism was very interesting but what stuck in my mind was a question which came from the floor during the Q&A session. Someone asked if he was aware of journalists placing out-bound links on the BBC news pages.
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Move a WordPress site to a new domain without affecting SEO

After my issues with the sluggish speed of my site, I decided to move to a new, Manchester based hosting company. I also thought a more Manchester centric domain would be a good idea, hence the move from TokyoRepublik.com to MancunianRepublik.com.

Moving domains throws up a plethora of problems with regard to SEO. The TokyoRepublik.com site had been live for over 5 years and had built up some pretty good in-bound links and domain history. I needed to find a way to keep all (or at least most) of this SEO good stuff. Here is a checklist of the steps I took.
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