When it comes to adding social sharing buttons (e.g. “Share on Facebook”), I’m a big fan of Scriptless Social Sharing by Robin Cornett. The one thing I like to do when using it is add UTM parameters to the links that are shared. Here is the snippet I use to add UTM parameters to my URLs that are being shared.
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Google Authorship on WordPress.org
UPDATE: Google is removing author images from search results making this tip much less useful. As you can see, when you search “wordpress stop emails plugin” on Google, in addition to my Stop Emails WordPress Plugin on WordPress.org, you are treated to my smiling face. Feel free to try it yourself, https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+stop+emails+plugin Google Authorship A great […]
Google Indexing 301 Redirect
While SEO is not my focus of expertise, it is an interesting field which impacts the work I do. I was surprised when fellow developer Dustyn Doyle pointed out to me that Google was indexing 301 redirects. Based on my research, I couldn’t find any of these 301 redirect links coming up in general searches; […]