Henriksen Goodman

It all began in the late 90's. I wanted to put some information on my website. A diary. A list of forthcoming events. I started with basic HTML. One-page, with parts for every article. Basic.

Then I found out about 'sites' and 'blogging.' Being smart, I picked Word-press, the most popular application. How clever, I thought. Should you obtain the WYSIWYG editor going, anyone could put up a site. Very democratic.

This prompted my to post my outermost thoughts; on London, politics, and personal gripes. Being a web-master, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my treasures of extrospection can fit in with the ages.'

Except Google didn't like my blog. Visiting orangesonline.com/floridaoranges.html/ probably provides tips you might give to your brother. It'd maybe not index much beyond leading page. Why, why, why?

Replicate information? I set it to place just one post per page.

No progress.

I looked at what Google was indexing. Then I checked out the blog HTML. Quickly, all became clear.

In sum:

- Wordpress was still saying my material, and

- It had no suitable META-TAGS, and

- There is a lot unnecessary HTML, and

- the content was obscured by The layout.

I'd a fast search on Google to locate search engine optimisation methods. There's a plugin '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 complete style would be the solution. I tried changing an existing one myself. Better, although not perfect. Google was starting to catalog more pages, however they all had the same title. My missives to an uncaring world were being ignored.

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

- Grab a META 'subject' in the blog post 'title';

- Grab a META 'description' in the blog 'excerpts';

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

But that was not enough. For best SEO results you have to configure Word-press cruelly. You have to become _mean_ to it. You've to _man_ enough.

Used to do a bit of re-search and came up with to following methods.

WARNING: They're severe. Making radical changes to-your URLs may influence them, If you