About WordPress SEO Sniper Lite Plugin
One of the advanced SEO strategies that Dan Thies recommends in his SEO Fast Start manual is what he calls the “third level push”.
The third level push takes more of the PageRank from your Category pages and pushes it down to your individual posts. That means the individual posts accumulate more PageRank than what they would have accumulated otherwise.
PageRank is only one of the factors that determine a post’s search engine ranking position, albeit an important on-page search engine optimization one.
With this free WordPress plugin you can ensure that each post gets more PageRank attributed to it.
Using the Plugin
- Download the plugin;
- Unzip it to your local computer disk;
- Upload the “wp-seo-sniper-lite” folder (not just the files in it!) into your /wp-contents/plugins/ folder. If you’re using FTP, use ‘binary’ mode;
- In your WordPress administration panel, go to the Plugins page; and
- Activate the WP SEO Sniper Lite plugin.
WP SEO Sniper Lite will always nofollow links to Categories on the category pages. That’s the basic third level push.
In the Options panel of the plugin, you have two configurable options to instruct the plugin to also nofollow Category links on the individual pages and posts. Dan Thies calls this an aggressive extension of the third level push.
Support for this Free WordPress SEO Plugin
Please submit your comments and support questions below in the comments section of this post.
Also look through the Frequently Asked Questions.
Tags: plugin, search engine optimization, SEO, seo fast start, seofs, wordpress
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The free plugin download doesn’t work.
It’s fixed now.
Yup works just fine now.
I received the page not displayed before when clicking on the link.
Thanks.
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Hi there.
I was wondering if you could explan the use of Nofollow. Why is it used. What does it do?
Why is it important.
John
Hey John,
No-follow is simply a search engine attribute. It is a message to the Search engines telling them not to go to a certain page and hence prevent it from any pagerank benefits.
Hope that helps.
Al
John,
The nofollow attribute of the “A HREF” HTML tag was initially introduced to tell the search engine spiders that they must not follow the link. Google’s ranking algorithms figure out the popularity of a site from the number and quality of the links that are pointing to it (amongst other things).
Google assigns a certain level of PageRank to a link that it then passes via that link to the destination page and/or site. It’s from all the links that point to a site (and the PageRank that flows along those links) that a site’s PageRank is calculated.
When you mark a link with the nofollow attribute, Google says, “Okay, I won’t let any PageRank flow along that link.”
Just as PageRank flows between sites, it also flows between pages on the same site, along the internal links that connect those pages.
By using nofollow internally on your site, you can control how much PageRank flows to certain pages. In fact, you can make it that your important pages receive most of the PageRank and your unimportant pages receive no PageRank. That means your important pages will rank higher in Google as a result.
This “opening and shutting” of PageRank flow is what WP SEO Sniper Professional enables you to do on your WordPress blog.
Dewald
I’ll just try your plugin if all you have saying here is true….:)
Wouldn’t it be better to add “noindex, follow” instead of nofollow to category pages?
Have used it in one of my blogs. thanks!
-Des
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I see the following written on here.
This plugin helps you to push your page rank from the category pages down to your individual articles. The idea is to get more internal linking done, so that the Google juice is spread out evenly and carried more to the article pages. Not a bad idea, if you can’t do the linking manually, this one will just do the trick.
Does that meann if I do internal linking I don’t need SEO Sniper Plugin????
Joaquin
Joaquin,
WP SEO Sniper enables you to do internal linking in a specific way to optimize the PageRank that flows to your posts.
Dewald
going to give this a try just to see what all the fuss about
Thanks, how to add .html extension ?
Is it possible by Apache mod rewrite ?
Hi,
Thanks for the free plugin. It worked perfectly on a WP version 2.3.3. However, in another install with WP version 2.5.1 I got the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_rel_nofollow() in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-seo-sniper-lite/wp-seo-sniper-lite.php on line 127
Both are using the /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure.
I’m using the free Semiologic theme on both but with an updated version on the 2.5.1 install.
Thanks and best regards.
JV,
I’m not sure why you would be getting that error on your install. The wp_rel_nofollow function exists even in WordPress 2.6.1.
Pointless Wordpress SEOing?…
It’s funny how a whole industry has grown up around second guessing and hypothesizing about how to rank as high as possible in the search results.
Up until now I really haven’t done much to that effect - when it comes to the basic stuff I h…
This is another great SEO plugin for wordpress, I enjoy using this combined with quite a few other plugins. Including the category base killer. They both work well in optimizing your blog.
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