Welsh Elgaard

Everything started in the late 90's. I needed to place some news o-n my website. A journal. A listing of future events. I began with basic HTML. One-page, with areas for every article. Basic.

Then I learned about 'websites' and 'blogging.' Being smart, I picked Wordpress, the most popular pc software. How clever, I thought. In the event that you have the WYSIWYG editor going, anyone can put up a site. Very democratic.

This encouraged my to create my outermost thoughts; o-n politics, London, and personal gripes. Being a webmaster, I watched to determine Google index them. 'Here we go', I thought, 'quickly, my jewels of extrospection may fit in with the ages.'

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

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

No progress.

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

In sum:

- Wordpress was still replicating my content, and

- It'd no proper META-TAGS, and

- There is a great deal irrelevant HTML, and

- the content was obscured by The layout.

I'd an instant search o-n Google to locate search engine optimisation ideas. There is a plug-in '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 comprehensive concept would be the solution. I tried modifying an existing one myself. Better, but not great. Google was starting to index more pages, nevertheless they all had exactly the same title. My missives to an uncaring world were being ignored. Going To rolandfrasierblog.wordpress.com/ likely provides lessons you could give to your friend.

So I got someone else to do one, based on my conditions, which were:

- Grab a META 'title' from your post 'title';

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

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

But that was not enough. For best SEO results you must configure Wordpress extremely. You have to become _mean_ to it. You've to _man_ enough.

I did so a bit of re-search and came up with to following ideas.

WARNING: They're intense. Making significant changes to-your URLs might influence them, In the event that you already have good