Comments on: Burning SEO Questions :: Strut Your Google-icious Stuff!

By: Jason Kemp

Jason Kemp — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:35:38 +0000

Regarding question 5 – it may not matter that much being XHTML – but you could also http://www.kaushalsheth.com/ who designed your WP theme to add trhe tags to the plugin and then do an update. That way it is all sorted and no manula fixes are needed.

By: Rick Cockrum

Rick Cockrum — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:23:42 +0000

#3 – What Steve said. I believe you need to manually set up a sitemap account first, then the plugin takes care of the updates. If you’re already fully indexed, and re-indexed frequently, the plugin may speed up the process, and you may get some use out of the stats Google generates from crawling the pages listed in the sitemap, but there is little other benefit.

#4 – No help. In fact, I just wrote a post calling for the end of PPC advertising.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:41:17 +0000

#2 When someone searches on Google the organic results are those which are not sponsored and when someone clicks one of those results you get a referral from Google. So referral traffic is organic traffic.

#5 I switch to code view just before posting and add the tags to my headings. I find it takes no time at all. It helps that I use Qumana (www.qumana.com) to post to my blogs which is must quicker than working online.

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:57:57 +0000

#1 – it depends on what your goal is. If you want visitors to hit the blog first and then explore the rest of the site, redirect to the blog. If you see the index page as a ‘landing’ page so people can see the full extent of your site, refresh the content periodically with relevant material. Your blog pages will still be indexed just finely.

#3 – The Sitemap Generator plugin handles it all, including notifying Google that a new sitemap has been generated. It does not, however, generate a sitemap for any parts of the site that aren’t in the blog.

#last – Use this plugin for the WYSIWYG editor: http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/12/26/advanced-editing-for-wordpress-20/

It adds in several of the buttons available in the TinyMCE editor.