My Troubles With Word-press Subjects

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Everything began in the late 90's. I wanted to put some information o-n my internet site. A journal. A listing of forthcoming events. I started with simple HTML. One-page, with parts for every article. Basic.

Then I found out about 'blogs' and 'blogging.' Being wise, I picked Wordpress, the most used pc software. How clever, I thought. In the event that you have the WYSIWYG editor going, anybody can set up a web site. Very democratic.

This encouraged my to publish my outermost thoughts; o-n London, politics, and personal gripes. As a webmaster, I watched to see Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my jewels of extrospection will participate in the ages.'

Except Google did not like my website. It would perhaps not index much beyond leading page. Why, why, why?

Replicate content? I set it to put just one post per-page.

No progress.

I looked over what Google was indexing. Then I checked out the blog HTML. Soon, all became clear.

In sum:

- Wordpress was however replicating my content, and

- It had no suitable META tags, and

- There is a good deal irrelevant HTML, and

- the content was obscured by The layout.

I'd a fast search o-n Google to get search engine optimization tips. There is a plug-in 'head META description' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I did not use that, oh no.

For whatever reason, I got the notion a comprehensive topic will be the solution. I tried modifying an existing one myself. Better, although not great. Google was beginning to index more pages, but they all had exactly the same name. My missives to an uncaring world were being overlooked.

So I got someone else to complete one, according to my standards, which were:

- Grab a META 'subject' in the article 'title';

- Grab a META 'explanation' from your website 'excerpts';

- Put a ROBOTS 'noindex' draw in non-content pages.

But that wasn't enough. For best SEO results you must change Wordpress extremely. You have to be _mean_ to it. You've to _man_ enough.

I did a little of research and created to following ideas.

WARNING: They are severe. In the event that you already have good rankings, making major changes to-your URLs may possibly influence them. Within my case:

- Moving my weblog http://www.ttblog.co.uk to the root web service,

- MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and

- Removing a 301 direct,

... caused my PageRank to visit 0. BUT, page indexing was untouched.

This was temporary, as Google found it as 'suspect' behaviour. I'd radically changed my site.

Listed here are the guidelines, for real _men_, who is able to look in the face of web death and laugh:

1. Stimulate permalinks by going to 'Options/Permalinks.' You may have allow Apache MOD_REWRITE in your website account.

1a. Shorten the code to just the variable. Don't bother with the date codes. This keeps your URLs short.

2. Place your blog in the uppermost service possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is preferable to http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/

Therefore a normal article would seem like

http://www.ttblog.co.uk/Im-hard-as-nails-me/

As opposed to

http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/2006/08/03/Im-hard-as-nails-me/

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My blogs are now being indexed beautifully. The Google 'site:' command returns all my articles, and little else.

For my next challenge, I accept Windows XP, and change it into an operating-system..