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Adding the Author’s Face to Google Search Results

Cathy Tibbles — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:01:04 +0000

For those who want to add the author snippet to any WordPress theme (including Genesis), try this thorough tutorial by Yoast. For those who want to simply install a plugin and let it do all the work, read on!

1. Add the Google Authorship Plugin for Multiple Authors by Keyword Strategy (search for Google Authorship from within your Dashboard – Plugins – Add New screen). Don’t forget to “activate” it.

2. This will add a new field in your Profile page. It looks like this:

3. Add your Google+ Profile URL. An example Google+ url is provided. The “Location” and “Width” is referring to the Google+ badge that is automatically added to your site. On The Vacation Gals, it looks like this:

I recommend changing the “Location” box to “hidden” because its really not that pretty, is it?

4. You *must* update your Google Plus profile to link to your website. Go to https://plus.google.com/, click on “Profile” on the left hand menu. Click on the top “Edit Profile” blue button. Scroll down to the “Contributor to” box. Click anywhere on the box to edit it. Complete the screen with your website name and link:

5. Once the website is indexed again, the authorship information will show in searches. This can take a few hours to a few weeks depending on the size and popularity of your website. In the meantime, you can test that it is working by using the Rich Snippet Tool.

Printable Recipe Cards that Increase Traffic

Cathy Tibbles — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:14:51 +0000

There are two things that you need – well three – if you’re a food / recipe blogger:

1. SEO Friendly Ziplist Plugin - creates the recipe card formats for search engines. It adds a function to save to their ziplist site (with shopping lists and other cool organizing features) and to print a printable version of the recipe cards.

2. Branding Consistency - we create the printable recipe card formats to match your site

3. Pinterest - because this alone can increase your traffic 50+%

Printable Recipe Cards by DSWP Website Services

www.framedcooks.com

www.yourhomebasedmom.com

www.musingsofahousewife.com

www.StrawberriesAreGlutenFree.com

Get your own SEO-Friendly Recipe Cards

Bulk Editing of Posts and Categories, Tags, and other Terms

Cathy Tibbles — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:47:43 +0000

We’ve found two plugins that make editing a batch of posts and categories a snap! First, use Term Management Tools by Scribu to turn all those categories into a nice easy to manage hierarchy of main categories, sub-categories, and tags.

Then use Batch Cat by Lenin Lee to add /edit / remove the appropriate terms from the posts in bulk.

I just edited several hundred categories and 1,700 posts in about 30 minutes.

We heart plugin authors!

To install plugins:

go to Plugins -> Add new.
Search for the title.
Match the author against the results.
Install and activate.
Visit the corresponding Tools or Settings page to configure.

Guest Post at SavvyBlogging!

Cathy Tibbles — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:44:26 +0000

We’ve been featured on SavvyBlogging today! Head on over to

check out our list of the 12 Essential Plugins for 2012!

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And then don’t forget to follow the conversation on twitter at #savvyblogging. A lot of great questions & answers are posted there daily.