We’ve seen the light and are converting to the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin on all of our sites. However, when migrating from your existing SEO plugin to the (superior) Yoast plugin, there are a few tricks along the way that will help your conversion go seamlessly and keep your pages displaying properly. This tutorial walks you through the migration from the All in One SEO Pack to the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. Watch and learn – you (and your ...

By default, WordPress prints a lot of extra code to the “head” section of webpages that it generates. For example, it prints a “generator” meta tag that identifies the site as a WordPress site–that can serve as a flag to hackers that specifically target WordPress sites. In this video tutorial we’ll learn a quick and easy way to clean the following items from your WordPress installation:

Here’s code to install in your functions.php to follow the above ...

Most simple WordPress templates/themes generally employ a single sidebar. But, in keeping with WordPress’ open architecture, you can easily add a second (or 3rd or 4th) sidebar to your site’s theme. And, you aren’t restricted to using your sidebar in the typical sidebar area–you can put your new sidebar in a header, a footer, or any other area in your template. Additional sidebars let you place any WordPress Widget (such as Recent Posts, Pages, Links/Blogroll, Calendar, Tag Cloud, as well ...

Is your web design up to snuff? If it is, you can get free backlinks by submitting your superior web design to these CSS showcase websites. Would you like to add your CSS gallery? Post a comment and we’ll review it.

Our Favorite CSS Galleries, the Cream of the Crop: 

1. Urban Trash. This gallery is truly one of the best, and often our first stop when we seek to tighten up our design skills. [Odd, this site ...
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You may have heard that the iPhone’s new voice-command and personal/search assistant “Siri” will be “the end of SEO as we know it.” Undoubedly a shift is coming, but I for one doubt it will be as disruptive as the apocolyptos might have you believe. After all, we’re not all going to use only our phones for everything. We like our laptops, and in addition, bargain hunting (AKA commercial search) is deeply ingrained in human nature.

There are a lot of ...

[tweetmeme]I’ve just returned from PubCon Las Vegas 2011 where I spoke on Hosting Issues and SEO, and Ways to Monetize a Blog. Bruce Clay’s staff did a great job of summarizing the Monetizing Your Blog segment, complete with some screenshots. It was a great conference with lots of national leaders in the disciplines of SEO, social media, and internet marketing.

Leo Laporte’s Keynote Address:
Marketing in the Social Era and the Future of Search

Leo Laporte is an Emmy Award ...

The Expert List: Experts for Media Articles and Press

We have compiled a list of experts available for comment and appearances in local/national media and the press. All listed experts are leaders in their fields and are available for prompt comment. To reach any expert on this list, contact TastyPlacement at 512.535.2492 or email michael@tastyplacement.com.

Expert on Search Engines, SEO, and Social Media: Michael David

Michael David is the owner and founder of TastyPlacement and is the author of WordPress 3.0 Search ...