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By: Blog SEO Part 1 - vBulletin SEO Services | Modifications Support

Blog SEO Part 1 - vBulletin SEO Services | Modifications Support — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:01:55 +0000

[…] Re: Blog SEO Part 1 here are a few good links 1. Permalinks - changing your Wordpress permalinks to be search-engine friendly 2. Page Title - improve the readability of your blog posts 3. Google Sitemaps - creating a sitemap for your blog 4. Tagging & Meta Keywords - implementing tags on your blog and how to use them as meta keywords. 5. Site Submissions - submit your site to blog directories, aggregators, etc. I hope you find them useful. […]

By: Wordpress SEO: First Steps - vBulletin SEO Services | Modifications Support

Wordpress SEO: First Steps - vBulletin SEO Services | Modifications Support — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:49:04 +0000

[…] Wordpress SEO: First Steps I have identified 5 important parts to optimising your Wordpress blog and broken them down into smaller chunks of information for easy digestion. Feel free to implement them in any order you like: 1. Permalinks - changing your Wordpress permalinks to be search-engine friendly 2. Page Title - improve the readability of your blog posts 3. Google Sitemaps - creating a sitemap for your blog 4. Tagging & Meta Keywords - implementing tags on your blog and how to use them as meta keywords. 5. Site Submissions - submit your site to blog directories, aggregators, etc. I hope you find them useful. [Source..] __________________ My vBSEO Forums: vBulletin Setup Optimization - United Radio Operators My Blogs: Brandon Sheley - Alissa Sheley - vBulletin Blogs & some Short URL's: VBS - FV - Add Zoints Tag pages to your vBSEO Sitemap […]

By: teckie

teckie — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:58:13 +0000

hi chris, thanks for the link, sounds very interesting!

but I'm not really sure if it'll bring any extra benefits =)

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:20:13 +0000

Thanks. Here is another question what are your thoughts on the theaory using ".htm" at the each post link? You can do this by using this code for permlink "/%postname%.htm"

I saw an article mentioning it here..
http://www.emilyrobbins.com/how-to-blog/how-to-configure-wordpress-to-create-search-engine-friendly-urls-for-permalinks-242.htm

By: teckie

teckie — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:43:47 +0000

well, i don't think it's bad, instead it gives the search engine user a better idea of what will appear in your article as we read from left to right:

so if you're searching for "paris", you'll see "paris" first in your category which will pique your interest and the last bit which says "seeing mona lisa in paris", tells the search engine user so much more than a normal permalink would do =)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:21:40 +0000

Is it bad to have the same word mentioned twice in the Permlink? For example I would the format of �/%category%/%postname%/" the category is "Paris" and my post title is "Seeing Mona Lisa in Paris".

Aslo you mentioned in this post that its "safer to have at least the category tag to reduce the chance of a duplicate title.". Could you clarify more please? Are duplicates bad?

thanks for the great site

By: teckie

teckie — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:05:23 +0000

i prefer category/post because the post part is more visible than the category at the end of the url…but seriously it's up to your preference…I'm not too sure about the effect but you can experiment with it =)

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:20:06 +0000

A question…would you say it is better to have catetory/post name as you mention above because this is logical, or post name/category so that if your link is long, the user will be sure to see the most meaningful part of it in the search engine results and there is no chance of the post name being truncated?

By: teckie

teckie — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:19:05 +0000

hmm, when you've changed the permalink format to what I suggested, did wordpress ask for you to change the .htaccess file?

if so, did you copy and paste everything?

By: Kman

Kman — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:38:01 +0000

When I change over to a title style URL, my categories won't work. When I click on one of the categories I am just taken back to the main page. Can anybody help with this?