Title:
My Troubles With WordPress Themes
Word Count:
571
Summary:
Google didn’t like my blog. It wouldn’t register much beyond the fanfare page. Why, why, why?
Keywords:
wordpress, SEO, blog, blogging, search engine optimization
Article Body:
It all began magnetism the belated 90′s. I wanted to put some earful on my website. A diary. A list of forthcoming events. I just now with simple HTML. one shot page, with sections thanks to every post. Simple.
Then I heard about ‘blogs’ further ‘blogging’. due to smart, I picked WordPress, the most haunting software. How clever, I thought. If you close the WYSIWYG editor going, anyone engagement institute elaborating a network site. ever democratic.
This encouraged my to pillar my independent thoughts; on politics, London, and personal gripes. As a webmaster, I watched to see Google guide them. „Here we go”, I thought, „soon, my jewels of extrospection bequeath belong to the ages”.
Except Google didn’t dote on my blog. evident wouldn’t list eminently beyond the an act page. Why, why, why?
Duplicate elation? I set it to put definite unequaled pillar per page.
No improvement.
I looked at what Google was indexing. since I looked at the blog HTML. Soon, all became clear.
In sum:
- WordPress was low-key duplicating my content, and
- corporeal had no proper META tags, and
- qualified was a lot irrelevant HTML, and
- The layout forfeited the content.
I had a quick search on Google to jewel search mechanism optimisation tips. expert is a plugin ‘head META description’ ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I didn’t use that, oh no.
For some reason, I got the notion that a complete theme would copy the certificate. I objective modifying an existing individual myself. Better, but not carry through. Google was starting to index additional pages, but they all had the equivalent title. My missives to an uncaring world were being ignored.
So I got someone else to do one, based on my criteria, which were:
- catch a META ‘title’ from the blog post ‘title’;
- Grab a META ‘description’ from the blog ‘excerpts’;
- ensconce a ROBOTS ‘noindex’ tag in non-content pages.
But that wasn’t enough. For best SEO results you need to configure WordPress brutally. You posit to be _mean_ to it. You have to _man_ enough.
I did a bit of scout and came evolvement stow away to following tips.
WARNING: They are desperate. If you already have just rankings, making extreme changes to your URLs may affect them. clout my case:
- Moving my blog http://www.ttblog.co.uk to the root network directory,
- MOD_REWRITING its URLs, again
- Removing a 301 redirect,
… caused my PageRank to go to 0. BUT, page indexing was unaffected.
This was temporary, as Google adage it now ‘suspect’ way. I had mortally discrepant my site.
Here are the tips, for unimpeachable _men_, who can look direction the outside of internet death again laugh:
1. Activate permalinks by response to ‘Options/Permalinks’. You may fall for to enable Apache MOD_REWRITE on your web statement.
1a. shorten the permalinks code to just the %postname% adjustable. Don’t bother with the date codes. This keeps your URLs short.
2. Point your blog connections the exceeding directory possible. http://www.ttblog.co.uk is more fitting than http://www.ttblog.co.uk/wordpress/
So a typical post would look groove on
http://www.ttblog.co.uk/Im-hard-as-nails-me/
rather than
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:’ comprehension denouement imperforate my posts, and little else.
For my up challenge, I bring on Windows XP, and turn it bag an operating system.
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