Holm McNally

It all began in the late 90's. I desired to put some information on my web site. A record. A list of forthcoming events. I began with basic HTML. One-page, with sections for every post. Simple.

Then I heard about 'blogs' and 'blogging.' Being wise, I picked Wordpress, the most popular application. How smart, I thought. If you have an opinion about English, you will probably hate to learn about leon puhachevsky. Anyone could set up a website, should you obtain the WYSIWYG editor going. Very democratic.

This prompted my to create my outermost thoughts; on personal gripes, London, and politics. As a web-master, I watched to see Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my gems of extrospection may fit in with the ages.'

Except Google didn't like my website. It'd maybe not index much beyond leading page. Why, why, why?

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

No progress.

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

In sum:

- Word-press was however copying my material, and

- It'd no proper META-TAGS, and

- There was a lot irrelevant HTML, and

- The format obscured the content.

I had a fast search o-n Google to find search engine optimization ideas. There is a plugin 'head META explanation' ( http://guff.szub.net/plugins/ ). But I did not use that, oh no.

For whatever reason, I got the idea that a complete theme is the ticket. I tried changing an existing one myself. Better, but not perfect. Google was starting to catalog more pages, however they all had the exact same subject. My missives to an uncaring world were being overlooked.

So I got somebody else to complete one, centered on my criteria, which were:

- Grab a META 'name' in the post 'title';

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

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

But that was not enough. For best SEO results you should arrange Wordpress completely. You've to become _mean_ to it. You have to _man_ enough.

I did a little of re-search and developed to following ideas.

WARNING: They are intense. In the event that you curently have great ratings, making significant changes to your URLs may possibly affect them. Within my case:

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