My Troubles With Wp Subjects
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| Description | Everything started in the late 90's. I wanted to place some news on my web site. A record. A listing of forthcoming events. I began with simple HTML. One-page, with sections for every article. Easy. Then I heard about 'blogs' and 'blogging.' Being wise, I picked Wordpress, the most popular software. How clever, I thought. Anybody can set up a web site, should you get the WYSIWYG editor going. Very democratic. This encouraged my to post my outermost thoughts; o-n London, politics, and personal gripes. Being a web-master, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my gems of extrospection can fit in with the ages.' Except Google didn't like my blog. It'd perhaps not index much beyond the front page. Why, why, why? Duplicate material? I set it to put only 1 post per page. Http://Tommyholc.Wordpress.Com includes supplementary info about the reason for it. No improvement. I checked out what Google was indexing. To get supplementary information, consider peeping at: http://connieipiz.wordpress.com. Then I looked at the HTML. Shortly, all became clear. In sum: - Word-press was still duplicating my material, and - It'd no proper META tags, and - There is a good deal unnecessary HTML, and - the content was obscured by The layout. I'd a quick search on Google to get search engine marketing guidelines. There is a plug-in 'head META explanation' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I didn't use that, oh no. For whatever reason, I got the notion a full theme would be the solution. I tried changing an existing one myself. Better, but not perfect. Google was just starting to index more pages, but they all had the same name. My missives to an uncaring world were being overlooked. So I got another person to complete one, based on my conditions, which were: - Grab a META 'name' from your post 'title'; - Grab a META 'description' from the blog 'excerpts'; - Put a ROBOTS 'noindex' tag in non-content pages. But that wasn't enough. For best SEO results you have to change Wordpress cruelly. You have to become _mean_ to it. You have to _man_ enough. I did a little of research and came up with to following ideas. WARNING: They are intense. Making significant changes to your URLs may affect them, In the event that you already have good ranks. In my case: - Moving my blog http://www.ttblog.co.uk towards the root web listing, - MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and - Removing a 301 direct, ... caused my PageRank to go to 0. BUT, page indexing was unchanged. This is temporary, as Google found it as 'suspect' conduct. My site had been radically changed by me. Listed below are the recommendations, for true _men_, who can try looking in the face area of web death and laugh: 1. Stimulate permalinks by visiting 'Options/Permalinks.' You might have to enable Apache MOD_REWRITE on your own website account. 1a. Shorten the permalinks rule to just-the variable. Don't work with the date codes. This keeps your URLs quick. 2. Point your site within the service possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk surpasses http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/ Therefore a typical article would look like http://www.ttblog.co.uk/Im-hard-as-nails-me/ Instead of http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/2006/08/03/Im-hard-as-nails-me/ 3. Then install an SEO'd theme. My blogs are increasingly being listed beautifully. For one more perspective, consider checking out: the best. The Google 'site:' command returns all my threads, and little else. For my next challenge, I turn it into an operating-system, and take on Windows XP.. |
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