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started by Fitzgerald Robbins on 01 Dec 13
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    #1 Fitzgerald Robbins on 01 Dec 13
     
    Everything started in the late 90's. I needed to put some news on my web site. A diary. A summary of forthcoming events. I started with basic HTML. One-page, with parts for each and every article. Easy.

    Then I learned about 'websites' and 'blogging.' Being smart, I picked Word-press, the most popular software. How smart, I thought. Anyone can put up a site, If you obtain the WYSIWYG editor going. Very democratic.

    This inspired my to publish my outermost thoughts; o-n politics, London, and personal gripes. Being a webmaster, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my treasures of extrospection will belong to the ages.'

    Except Google did not like my website. It would not index much beyond the front 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 looked at the HTML. Soon, all became clear.

    In sum:

    - Word-press was however reproducing my content, and

    - It'd no right META-TAGS, and

    - There is a good deal irrelevant HTML, and

    - the content was obscured by The layout.

    I had an instant search o-n Google to locate search engine marketing methods. There is a plug-in 'head-meta description' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I didn't use that, oh no.

    For some reason, I got the idea that a comprehensive theme would be the ticket. I tried modifying an existing one myself. Better, but not perfect. Google was just starting to catalog more pages, but they all had the exact same subject. My missives to an uncaring world were being overlooked.

    So I got another person to complete one, according to my conditions, which were:

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

    - Grab a META 'explanation' from the blog 'excerpts';

    - Put a ROBOTS 'noindex' tag in non-content pages. Be taught additional information on the affiliated web site by visiting www.tsdcleaning.co.uk.

    But that wasn't enough. For best SEO results you need to arrange Word-press extremely. You've to become _mean_ to it. You've to _man_ enough.

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

    WARNING: They are intense. Making radical changes to-your URLs may possibly influence them, In the event that you curently have great rankings. In my case:

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

    - MOD_REWRITING its URLs, and

    - Removing a 301 redirect,

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

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

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

    1. Activate permalinks when you go to 'Options/Permalinks.' You could have to enable Apache MOD_REWRITE on your web account.

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

    2. Level your blog within the listing possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is preferable to http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/

    Therefore a typical post 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 websites are increasingly being listed beautifully. The Google 'site:' command returns all my posts, and little else.

    For my next challenge, I turn it into an operating system, and take on Windows XP.

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