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As a free open source option for beginners, advanced webmasters and SEO’s alike, Wordpress has become one of the most popular platforms in which to build a web property. Although Wordpress is rounding the corner towards version 3.0 there is still a lot of useful SEO tools that are not and will not be built-in to the blogging software.

Once having installed the software to your web server one must hunt around the internet tirelessly for Plugins in order to satisfy their requirements for SEO. Metamend has decided to make this task easier for our valued web visitors by putting together a little wordpress seo bundle. This Wordpress SEO theme bundle could save the average person hours of time researching and obtaining the best tools for Wordpress.

Wordpress in itself is naturally good for SEO in the way that it allows so much control over the website including on-page optimization and file naming. With a few additional plugins you can turn a wordpress site into an SEO dream.

To learn more about Wordpress and to download our comprehensive Wordpress SEO Bundle click here.

How many times today have you waited for a slow loading web page to appear? Did you wait patiently, or did you move on and try another site? Slow site performance could be costing your site a lot of search traffic. After clicking on your site’s link in a search result many visitors may just turn around and look elsewhere if a page is taking too long to appear. I know I do.

Nobody likes a slow website, and now officially Google doesn’t. And by “now” , I mean a couple of months ago. Yes ironic I know, a slow response with this post.

Google is constantly checking your site’s performance and all indications point to this being a ranking factor in future. This was reported a late last year by WebProNews, after an interview with the venerable Matt Cutts from the Goog.

By their own admission Google is all about the ”user experience”, with their prime SEO mantra being; “make websites for users, not for the search engines”. And page load time is one if the most important user experience issues that you’ll encounter when browsing the web.

Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog, has an online reputation management problem.

He emerged in Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday to see his shadow, which traditionally means winter will last another six weeks.

12,000+ people from as far as Chile and the Netherlands, came to watch the pseudo-German tradition unfold. It has mutated from the original holiday of “Candelmas” and has become somewhat of a pop-culture tradition more than anything.

People stand around in near freezing, and sometimes below freezing, temperatures to watch a Marmot look for a shadow.  This is all with the understanding that a superstition will forecast the weather for the next month and a half, approximately.

Far from a factual undertaking, the whole circus is now geared towards entertainment.

You can see “Phil” at his website;   www.punxsutawneyphil.com .  The site header is carefully worded;

“Greetings from Punxsutawney! A tribute site to the world’s most famous weather-forecasting groundhog”.

However, a direct search for the Marmot today, puts his site at 3rd place, behind “news” and then “groundhog.org”. This begs the question, why wouldn’t Phil want his traffic pointing to his site and then monetize it heavily?

In recent times the Vatican has been open about their perception of how the internet fits into the scheme of things from a religious standpoint. This is not a surprise as the internet has become nearly inseparable from our daily lives, as religion is to a number of us as well.

The somewhat “quakeresque” public perception of religious leadership is that anything “tech” is bad and living in an 1800’s way of life with a candle, and wooden shack and a Holy Bible is something we should all aspire to.

Possibly contrary to the stereotype, Pope Benedict XVI is encouraging his priests to become more versed in internet and technical things. The Vatican has been very much near the cutting edge, believe it or not, for most of the internet’s existence.

For example; The Vatican / Holy See has had its own internet ccTld since inception of the naming standard. The registration web site is http://www.nic.va, which is currently offline. The only used .va extension is vatican.va and the website is live.

Some of the content on the Vatican site is the PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS.

It appears we are all not quite seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with the latest economic slump. It has hit everyone hard regardless of business size or industry and in many cases marketing dollars are the first to disappear.

Truth be known, many companies that do succeed during tougher economic times are the ones who actually increase their online marketing budgets.  In many cases this strategy is used to take advantage of the competition dropping their strategies all together and the benefits are far reaching well after the economy woes are over.

Everyone can understand the incredible value in this economy of having highly relevant traffic directed to your website showcasing your products or services. A skilled SEO company is your best and most cost effective option to handle the daunting task of continuously growing relevant and converting search engine traffic.

There are a large amount of key points to consider when deciding whether or not to outsource your SEM / SEO initiatives. The following points are two that are common throughout regardless of industry.

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