It’s finally finished as promised, a seo’d free wordpress theme that works with wordpress 2.7. All I wish you to do is keep the link in the signature and you can modify the theme how ever you like. Note it might look funny on the demo because we’re not 100% upgraded to 2.7 yet. We’re still using and older/latest version of 2.6.x
Download: seolove
Demo: Demo Link
To switch back to original theme click here.
Here are some of the things we’ve done to improve the SEO of your WordPress e-commerce site. Of course this assumes you already have the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin installed.
1/ Based on recommendations from David Westbrook at Dew Point Productions the WordPress e-Commerce plugin integrates with the WordPress Updates Services - in the same way the world knows you have done a blog post the world also knows about your new products.
Update services are powerful tools that let other websites and people know you have updated your site. You can read more about Update Services on the WordPress website.
2/ Interfacing with WordPress Permalinks was an obvious one. We decided to do this because we like to follow suit - if WordPress does something in a particular way then we normally do it too. Permalinks enhance your site by creating search engine friendly URLs for example instinct.co.nz/?p=N vs instinct.co.nz/contact-us.
3/ Google Base is available for shop owners that want Google to really know about their products the minute they add them to their site. Google Base is a tool that lets you add content to Google to make it easier for people to find your products online via the Google Product Search website.
Having to upgrade your WordPress install every time a new version is released is necessary, but also very boring. If you have a SSH access to your server, here’s a very quick way to upgrade your WordPress install.
This is probably the most important step of this whole tutorial: always backup your WP Database and files. This tutorial have been tested, however I won’t be held responsible for any kind of data loss.
Once done, you can connect to your server by using SSH. On Mac and Linux platform you can use the Terminal, on Windows I recommend using Putty.
Get the latest WordPress version available:
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Uncompress it:
tar xfz latest.tar.gz
Delete the wp-admin and wp-includes directories:
rm -rf ./wp-includes/ rm -rf ./wp-admin/
Go to the wordpress directory:
cd wordpress/
Now, it’s time to copy the downloaded files to your existing WP install, by overwriting old files:
cp -rpf -f * ../
Once done, come back to the Wordpress directory and remove the downloaded files:
cd .. rm -rf ./wordpress/ rm -f latest.tar.gz
Visit your blog and upgrade the database (if needed). That’s all, your blog is now up to date and the whole process didn’t took more than a minute or two!
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