SEO In Progress and Other Changes
By Desty on Aug 2, 2007 in Blogging -- Technical, SEO and Link Building
With Google’s update of Page Rankings rumored to be taking place during the month of August, Desty Online is getting a tune-up in regards to it’s search engine optimization processes. Here are some of the customizations we’re using to hopefully increase a possible Page Rank. I don’t pretend to know how to use all of these to their fullest, but based off my research these plug-ins make some much needed changes to your blog in order to make it search engine friendly.
- All in One SEO Pack– Allows you to create a page title for single page posts separate from the title of the article itself. This enables you to insert more targeted keywords to help direct search engine traffic to relevant articles. Also allows keyword placement in the meta code of the article itself.
- Google Sitemap Generator – Creates a Google compliant sitemap of your blog. Helps Google see what there is to see on your blog.
- Optimal Title– Mirrors the function of the wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.
- Permalink Redirect– Ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued.
- WWW Redirect– Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent URL (i.e. http://destyonline.com to http://www.destyonline.com )
These plug-ins have been in place for some weeks. I’m also shopping for other SEO friendly plug-ins or tactics to help increase the Page Rank of Desty Online.
Final note, over the weekend, Desty Online will be getting a face lift! We’ll be switching to a new theme, working the kinks out of the theme, bringing everything up to code, and hopefully have a cleaner, fresher display for readers. Also on tap is a reduction of Google’s AdSense ad blocks. There will still be some on the site, but the virtual real estate that is Desty Online has better uses for that space. Last, but not least, Desty Online will no longer worry about its Technorati rankings or the chase of gaining links just to a higher Technorati rating or for having more links sake.
The Desty Online Business Plan is in place! Time to follow the road map.
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Interesting changes! Please let us know the impact of all this when the changes are over! Thanks!
Since this will be our first PR review, these changes won’t really tell such a story. It’s when the update after this one comes around, based off traffic, and changes that will tell a story. Based off what I’ve been able to find, we’re expecting a PR3.
I use every single one of those plugins except the redirect (i have no need for it). They are really useful and help propel your site to the front pages of the search engines.
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While upgrading Desty Online, I found some other plugins! Check out Andy Beard’s blog. I’ll write about his article later in the week but if you want to skip ahead, it was written in June I think.
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