My Issues With Word-press Styles

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It all started in the late 90's. I needed to put some news o-n my web site. A journal. A list of future events. I began with basic HTML. One-page, with areas for every article. Basic.

Then I found out about 'websites' and 'blogging.' Being wise, I picked Word-press, the most popular application. How smart, I thought. If you have the WYSIWYG editor going, anybody could set up a web site. Very democratic.

This prompted my to create my outermost thoughts; on London, politics, and personal gripes. Being a web-master, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'soon, my jewels of extrospection will belong to the ages.'

Except Google didn't like my blog. It would perhaps not index much beyond leading page. Why, why, why?

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

No progress.

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

In sum:

- Wordpress was still saying my content, and

- It had no right META-TAGS, and

- There is a great deal unnecessary HTML, and

- The format obscured this content. Linklicious Backlinks Genie contains further about how to see it.

I'd a fast search on Google to get search engine marketing tips. There's a plug-in 'head META explanation' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I did not use that, oh no.

For whatever reason, I got the notion a full style would be the solution. I tried modifying an existing one myself. Better, although not perfect. Google was starting to list more pages, nevertheless they all had the same title. My missives to an uncaring world were being ignored.

So I got somebody else to complete one, according to my requirements, which were:

- Grab a META 'name' from your article 'title';

- Grab a META 'description' from the website 'excerpts';

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

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

Used to do a little of re-search and created to following tips.

WARNING: They are serious. Making significant changes for your URLs may affect them, In the event that you have good rankings. In my case:

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

- MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and

- Removing a 301 re-direct,

... For another standpoint, consider taking a gaze at: is linklicious safe. caused my PageRank to go to 0. BUT, site indexing was unchanged.

This was temporary, as Google saw it as 'suspect' behavior. My site had been radically changed by me.

Listed below are the tips, for true _men_, who will try looking in the face area of internet death and laugh:

1. Stimulate permalinks by going to 'Options/Permalinks.' You could have to enable Apache MOD_REWRITE on your web account.

1a. Limit the code to just the %postname% variable. To research more, consider taking a view at: linklicious.com on-line. Do not work with the date codes. This keeps your URLs short.

2. Place your website within the uppermost listing possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is better than http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/

So an average post would seem 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 websites are now being listed beautifully. The Google 'site:' command returns all my threads, and little else.

For my next concern, I accept Windows XP, and turn it into an operating system..