My Troubles With Wordpress Subjects

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Everything started in the late 90's. I needed to put some news o-n my internet site. A diary. A listing of forthcoming events. I began with basic HTML. One-page, with sections for each post. Simple.

Then I found out about 'blogs' and 'blogging.' Being wise, I picked Wordpress, the most popular software. How clever, I thought. In the event that you get the WYSIWYG editor going, anyone can set up an internet site. Very democratic.

This encouraged my to create my outermost thoughts; o-n personal gripes, London, and politics. Being a web-master, I watched to see Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my gems of extrospection may fit in with the ages.'

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

Duplicate material? I set it to place just one post per-page.

No progress.

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

In sum:

- Word-press was however duplicating my information, and

- It'd no suitable META-TAGS, and

- There was a lot irrelevant HTML, and

- The layout obscured this content.

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For whatever reason, I got the idea a full concept will be the solution. I tried changing an existing one myself. Better, although not great. Google was starting to index more pages, but they all had exactly the same subject. My missives to an uncaring world were being ignored.

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

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

- Grab a META 'description' from your weblog 'excerpts';

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

But that wasn't enough. For best SEO results you should change Word-press brutally. You've to be _mean_ to it. You've to _man_ enough.

I did so a little of research and developed to following ideas.

WARNING: They are serious. Making significant changes to your URLs may affect them, In the event that you already have great ranks. In my own case:

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

- MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and

- Removing a 301 redirect,

... caused my PageRank to go to 0. BUT, page indexing was unchanged.

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

Listed below are the methods, for real _men_, who can try looking in the face area of internet death and laugh:

1. Activate permalinks by visiting 'Options/Permalinks.' You may have to enable Apache MOD_REWRITE in your web bill.

1a. Limit the code to just-the %postname% variable. Do not make use of the time codes. This keeps your URLs quick.

2. Level your blog in the uppermost directory possible. Should you claim to get further on Profile information, there are millions of libraries people should investigate. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is better than http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/

So a normal 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 websites are now found beautifully. The Google 'site:' command returns all my threads, and little else.

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