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By default, websites / blogs can be accessed by with or without the www in the front of the domain name; however search engines see this as two different domains. One with the www and one without. To avoid content duplicity it is advisable to choose one and to stick with it, this way SE’s can consolidate all links to your domain whether they are with or without the www and give you the maximum link juice.

There are many ways to accomplish this, you can find in detail on this website. You can also use Google Webmaster tools to tell Google your preference so that you are nicely covered in the biggest search engine.

Most of us forget that we have to change certain things on our blog at the end of every year, certain things like the footer which contains the copyright year of the blog. Now most theme on WordPress have the year hardcoded, meaning instead of a php code which would display the year it is simply coded 2008 or 2009. This means that at the beginning of every year that information has to be changed.

You can do this by logging on to your WP admin and then selecting the editor of the theme. Click footer and the find the place where the copyright notice has been placed. Either you can change the year to 2009 or let this be taken care of automatically by using this php code.

If you are using the php code then this is would be a one time change as the year will be automatically updated from now on. However you would need to do this again incase you change the theme. Also note that your date settings should be correct in the settings tab otherwise the year could be displayed wrongly.

I am sure you must have heard about this a lot. Apparently Google advices you to use this tag whenever linking out to a websites so as to save you from your page rank being drained as well as keeping the link juice from being passed on.

Why was this initiated by Google? A lot of bad websites were getting top ranking in Google searches simply by having a ton of links from every possible source and to keep their search listing credible they came out with the rel=”nofollow” tag.

When should you use it? Whenever linking out from your blog make sure you use the nofollow tag, unless you are sure the website you are linking to does not fall under bad neighborhood.

Personally I would not mind passing on the link juice to websites who have PR 6 and more and therefore not use the nofollow tag for such websites.

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