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Embracing WordPress SEO

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Damn I’m loving the change over to WordPress. The vast number of plugins out there make it so customisable, and I do love to tinker.

Today I’ve been playing around with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), and finding a bunch of features that were never there in Blogger. It’s all about Google PageRank, so I’ve added the little pagerank checker over the right there. Sure it’s saying my PR is currently 0, I’m hoping this is due to the recently registered domain and google is yet to glorify me.

I’ve now got META tags going thanks to a plugin called Headspace that give search engines a one line description of an article so those words rate heavier than the blog title or the first sentence, cause my titles are generally puns anyway.

Another plugin I’ve cranked up is do-follow so now if you were to leave a comment at Beer and Sport, google will follow your website URL, and it’ll help increase your ranking in google. Not very much, cause Beer and Sport is PANTS in the eyes of google…… for now…

Turns out this do follow thingamy is part of a blogging movement to turn off the rel=”nofollow” in links left in comments. So to show off my bandwagon jumping I’ve stuck their logo up too.
. How web 2.0 am I? Don’t answer that…

Bye bye Blogger, hello WordPress

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I’ve made the big move across to WordPress, so things are looking a little different around here.

Some of the big bonuses are the ability to preview a post before posting it and having it look like it will when posted – blogger always shat me in this regard. The categories / tagging system lets me have Cricket and Rugby categories then tags within.. this should help the old google rankings and give a good way to organise content.

There’s some big improvements to commenting on blog posts, now I can edit comments which is handy for fixing up posters links/images. There’s a rich text WYSIWYG editor, the ability for commentors to edit comments, and smilies.

I’ll update comments to this post as I add more…