It all started in the late 90's. I desired to put some information on my web site. A journal. A listing of forthcoming events. I began with simple HTML. One-page, with areas for each post. Basic.
Then I found out about 'websites' and 'blogging.' Being smart, I picked Wordpress, the most popular application. How smart, I thought. In the event that you obtain the WYSIWYG editor going, anyone can put up an internet site. Very democratic.
This inspired my to post my outermost thoughts; o-n politics, London, and personal gripes. As a web-master, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my treasures of extrospection will fit in with the ages.'
Except Google didn't like my blog. It would not index much beyond the leading page. Why, why, why?
Replicate content? I set it to place only 1 post per page.
No progress.
I looked over what Google was indexing. Visit linklicious.me to read the inner workings of this thing. Then I viewed the HTML. Shortly, all became clear.
In sum:
- Word-press was however duplicating my content, and
- It'd no right META-TAGS, and
- There was a great deal irrelevant HTML, and
- The design obscured the information.
I'd a quick search on Google to get search engine marketing ideas. There's a plug-in 'head-meta information' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I did not use that, oh no.
For some reason, I got the idea a complete design is the solution. I tried changing an existing one myself. Better, but not great. Google was beginning to list more pages, nevertheless they all had the exact same subject. My missives to an uncaring world were being ignored.
So I got someone else to complete one, centered on my criteria, which were:
- Grab a META 'subject' in the post 'title';
- Grab a META 'description' from the blog 'excerpts';
- Put a ROBOTS 'noindex' tag in non-content pages.
But that was not enough. For best SEO results you need to change Word-press extremely. You've to become _mean_ to it. You have to _man_ enough.
I did so a little of re-search and created to following ideas.
WARNING: They are extreme. Making significant changes for your URLs might influence them, If you curently have great ranks. In my case:
- Moving my website http://www.ttblog.co.uk to the root web listing,
- MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and
- Removing a 301 direct,
... For alternative interpretations, consider having a gander at: linklicious guide. caused my PageRank to visit 0. BUT, site indexing was untouched.
This was temporary, as Google saw it as 'suspect' behaviour. If people fancy to discover further on lindexed, we know about thousands of online resources people might investigate. I had radically changed my site.
Listed below are the guidelines, for real _men_, who is able to look in the face of web death and laugh:
1. Activate permalinks by going to 'Options/Permalinks.' You could have allow Apache MOD_REWRITE on your website account.
1a. Lessen the permalinks code to just the %postname% variable. Visit linklicious tutorial to research when to see it. Do not make use of the date codes. This keeps your URLs quick.
2. Position your blog within the index possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is preferable to http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/
Therefore an average post would seem like
http://www.ttblog.co.uk/Im-hard-as-nails-me/
In place 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 now being listed beautifully. The Google 'site:' command returns all my articles, and little else.
For my next problem, I turn it into an os, and accept Windows XP..
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