First we need to download the Search Meter WordPress Plugin. It basically keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After installing it, you can show the latest or most popular searches on your sidebar using:

• <?php sm_list_recent_searches(‘ ‘,’ ‘,’10′) ?>
• <?php sm_list_popular_searches(‘ ‘,’ ‘,’10′) ?>

The first and second empty brackets represent what you want to place in front of and after every search term (html code like <li> and </li>) The number at the end is the number of results you want your visitors to see.

Now we need to edit it:

On line 101 and 120 of the plugin file, replace

<a href=”‘. get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/search/’ . urlencode($result->terms) . ‘”>

with

<a href=”‘. get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/search/’ . urlencode($result->terms) . ‘.html”>

this will show your searches as html documents, and I don’t have to say how much Google loves html documents, do I?

Now, the plugin will list the searches as html documents, but they will return 404 errors since we have not yet configured WordPress internal files. The .htaccess rewrite attributes are written in a file called rewrite.php inside your wordpress/wp-includes/ folder. Open that file and go to line 408, and replace

$this->search_structure = $this->root . $this->search_base . ‘/%search%’;

with

$this->search_structure = $this->root . $this->search_base . ‘/%search%.html’;

This will prevent WordPress from returning 404 errors. Now wait for google to crawl through your searches. You will be amazed at how much traffic your wordpress searches can bring. There are also other possibilities that I won’t get into, but I hope you like it.

PS: this will never get you banned or put you in google sandbox. Overall, this is acceptable according to Google Guidelines.

But don’t you feel like seo experts are hiding some key concept or optimization technique from you? Well there are a lot of seo techniques that regular users don’t know or can’t implement on their website. Those are the ones that make Aaron Wall’s seobook.com list on the first SERP (Search Engine Result Page) for the term “seo” on Google eventhough it looks like an usual blog from the source code. One of these “hidden techniques” has been revealed in How to be a Gray Hat by Eli. So I said, why not make a plugin out of it?

Would you share it with other people if you knew such secret? Would you be willing to reveal the ultimate way to get one way backlinks from hundreds of PR 6 sites? They don’t share it, so neither should you (if you are not going to make some money) when you find something new. If every webpage had the same backlinks, same seo optimization and similar anchor links; what is left for Google?

Now back to the point: The reason I placed this post in the Gray Hat SEO category and not in the WordPress category is how it achieves a higher keyword density on a post page. The High Keyword Density WordPress Plugin checks for the user-agent (in this case Googlebot), and removes certain common words from the post text accordingly. So when Googlebot visits your page, it won’t be seeing these words, while your readers can still read your meaningful sentences. I hope John Chow will find it evil enough!

Currently, High Keyword Density WordPress Plugin checks for the following phrases and removes them:

$patterns[0] = ‘/ why /’;
$patterns[1] = ‘/ but /’;
$patterns[2] = ‘/ I /’;
$patterns[3] = ‘/ is /’;
$patterns[4] = ‘/ are /’;
$patterns[5] = ‘/ about /’;
$patterns[6] = ‘/ to /’;
$patterns[7] = ‘/ of /’;
$patterns[8] = ‘/ by /’;
$patterns[9] = ‘/ the /’;
$patterns[10] = ‘/ a /’;
$patterns[12] = ‘/ posted /’;
$patterns[13] = ‘/ from /’;
$patterns[14] = ‘/ in /’;
$patterns[15] = ‘/ if /’;
$patterns[16] = ‘/ on /’;
$patterns[17] = ‘/ and /’;
$patterns[18] = ‘/ with /’;
$patterns[19] = ‘/ for /’;
$patterns[20] = ‘/ be /’;

The reason I left spaces before and after the phrases is so that the plugin won’t remove those phrases inside a word such as ‘the’ in ‘theory’. You can easily add additional phrases by continuing the patterns array. I didn’t bother to add additional search engines, but if you guys want here is a list of user-agents. If you want to see how GoogleBot sees your website after you install the plugin, please visit here: View a Web Page as ‘Googlebot’

The nicest thing about this plugin is its fully customizable; you can add various type of seo stuff in there very easily. Possibilities with High Keyword Density WordPress Plugin is endless. For example I came up with this list just now:

1. Adding bold tags to words mentioned in the post title
2. Automatically adding hyperlinks to some keywords
3. Placing keywords in your keyword metatag inside your post text.

So try and experiment with it. You should be the one looking for ways to improve your website. Thats why some people actually reach top 10 rankings and others just read their blogs.

You can download High Keyword Density WordPress Plugin using the above button.

Installation of High Keyword Density WordPress Plugin:

1. Download the source file: thb-high-keyword-density.phps
2. Rename the file to thb-high-keyword-density.php
3. Upload it to your plugins folder
4. Active the High Keyword Density WordPress Plugin on the plugin page

First of all, most of you know that link building is the key to a high PR and therefore high traffic website. Google Images work in the same way! You need to get as much links with relevant anchor text to your images as possible. For example, using a script to get the last 5 posted images and place them with thumbnails on your toolbar will get you a lot of pages linking to that 5 recent images.

Also try posting your images on photo forums and link directly to your images. I know this will probably hurt you bandwith-wise, but it will really help your images get listed on Google Images.

Don’t name your images like my_image_name.jpg. Name them with “-” between words like my-image-name.jpg. This way Search Engine Bots, especially Googlebot, will recognize the image name as 3 different words. Another optimization would be using the keywords on the same paragraph of the image that is between the <p> and </p> tags.

Now lets get to the grey hat seo part. When you have your images listed on Google Images, people will look at the thumbnail and click it, getting to the 2 frame page with your website on the bottom. People searching for images on a certain niche can leave your site immediately if they think that your webpage is unrelated. We don’t want to take this chance and force the visitor to visit your blog by adding a couple of codes to your webpage.

Here is the javascript code the break the Google Image Search Frame from image results:

<script language=”JavaScript1.1″ type=”text/JavaScript”>
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);</script>

Now what you can do is to add a specific code to detect that the referrer is google images and display related images on that page. The PHP code to determine the referrer and the search keyword is:

$queryurl = $_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’];
$refer = parse_url($_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’]);
$refer= $refer[’host’];

if(strstr ($refer, ‘yahoo’)){
ereg(’p=(.*)’,$queryurl,$match);
}

else{
ereg(’q=(.*)’,$queryurl,$match);
}

$qstring = str_replace(’+’,’ ‘,$match[1]);

Now you have $qstring which is the image search keyword and $refer , which is the referring image search engine (most probably Googe Image Search). Now you can include a simple php page with file name “$qstring”.html containing related images to the $qstring. I am not going into details of writing the code to display related images, since it can depend on what kind of CMS you are running on your website.