Comments on: Optimize wordpress blog to improve my search engine page ranking – in progress

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:27:35 +0000

@Steve:

Thank you for the great list!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:16:45 +0000

Terence, I think you have covered the basics. This (not mine) might be worth checking out: http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/08/21/wordpress-search-engine-optimization-seo-plugins/

By: daren

daren — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:30:33 +0000

Hey Terence .. stumbled on your blog while googling for ideas to optimize my blog.

WOW!! I am newbie.. wondering how can i further optimize my blog? Can u make the above in more lay man’s language? Or have u posted up anything simpler for newbies?

Tks ..

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By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:27:19 +0000

Thanks Arpit!

Yes. I, indeed, use GoogleWebmaster tools for all my web sites. I have implemented the_excerpt Reloaded. Now it shows the excerpt. I heard some negative feedback about the excerpt a while back. So I was not very sure if I want to do it. Some people prefer to keep read in the home page so they don’t need to click away and read the details. However, some people like people to read detail while gain more page clicks.

I still use the meta tag check for archive page to not index the content, because I found there are huge chance the content look duplicated in archive page and category pages.

Again, I am learning new stuff everyday. That’s awesome.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:31:46 +0000

here are some more tips. use your googlewebmaster account to enable www. or without www indexing for google bots. instead of using the more tag why don’t you just use the_excerpt function on your index.php and archive.php and use the_content function only on your single.php and page.php template files. if you do that then you don’t need to do step 5

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:44:47 +0000

Thanks for coming. I hope you find my blog useful. I pretty much records everything I did, in case I will forget in the future.

I have changed my WordPress many times. I always forgot what I did.

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Wallet Rehab - Ways to Save Money — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:35:58 +0000

Awesome! I have been very lazy about updating my robots.txt, but your steps are so simple, I’ll just do what you did!