MarcyGiven287

It all began in the late 90's. I desired to place some news on my website. A journal. A list of future events. I began with simple HTML. One page, with sections for each and every post. Basic. Then I found out about 'websites' and 'blogging.' Being intelligent, I picked Word-press, the most popular application. How clever, I thought. In the event that you have the WYSIWYG editor going, anyone could put up a web site. Very democratic. This inspired my to publish my outermost thoughts; on London, politics, and personal gripes. As a webmaster, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'soon, my jewels of extrospection may belong to the ages.' Except Google did not like my website. It'd maybe not index much beyond the front page. Why, why, why? Repeat content? I set it to place only one post per page. No progress. For another perspective, please consider checking out Bagger Lang. I checked out what Google was indexing. Then I viewed the HTML. Soon, all became clear. To get more information, please consider checking out open site in new window. In sum - Wordpress was however copying my information, and - It had no suitable META-TAGS, and - There was a great deal irrelevant HTML, and - The layout obscured this content. I'd a fast search on Google to locate search engine optimisation methods. There's a plug-in 'head META information' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I didn't use that, oh no. For some reason, I got the notion a full style would be the solution. I tried changing an existing one myself. Better, although not perfect. Google was just starting to catalog more pages, however they all had the same subject. My missives to an uncaring world were being overlooked. Click here this month to check up the reason for it. So I got somebody else to complete one, according to my standards, which were - Grab a META 'name' in the blog post 'title'; - Grab a META 'description' in the blog 'excerpts'; - Put a ROBOTS 'noindex' label in non-content pages. But that was not enough. For best SEO results you should configure Word-press savagely. You have to become _mean_ to it. You have to _man_ enough. Used to do a little of re-search and developed to following recommendations. WARNING They are intense. Making radical changes to your URLs may possibly affect them, If you already have great ratings. In my own case - Moving my weblog http://www.ttblog.co.uk towards the root web directory, - MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and - Removing a 301 re-direct, ... caused my PageRank to visit 0. BUT, site indexing was unaffected. This is temporary, as Google saw it as 'suspect' behavior. I had radically changed my site. Listed below are the recommendations, for real _men_, who will try the face area of internet death and laugh 1. Stimulate permalinks by going to 'Options/Permalinks.' You might have allow Apache MOD_REWRITE in your website consideration. We discovered human resources manager by browsing the London Gazette. 1a. Limit the permalinks code to just the variable. Do not bother with the date codes. This keeps your URLs small. 2. Level your website within the directory possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is better than http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/ So an average article would appear to be 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/ 3. Then install an SEO'd theme. My blog posts are now being indexed beautifully. The Google 'site:' command returns all my articles, and little else. For my next problem, I accept Windows XP, and turn it into an operating-system..