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Change the WordPress permalink structure to the best format, and yes it’s a little bit scary :D

Posted by Daniel - 658 Views

Today this blog is about 2 months old. It is only 2 weeks ago when I began to put more attention on how search engines see my pages. Let me be honest with you that at this moment the search result from this blog on Google looks bad.

Speaking about search engine result, I think it’s related to what we call as Permalink Structure. It’s a URL path structure used to access every resources/pages on your site. If you use WordPress as your blogging platform you must be familiar with this term.

I had posted similar article titled “Something is wrong, the Google Search Result from my blog looks bad“. Listed there are several steps I had been done to get a better search engine optimized pages. You know what? By writing that post, actually I am waiting for someone who understand this stuff to give opinions about my todo list. And yes, I got lucky.

A friend from Netherlands, his name is Oeroek had posted very-very helpful comments on that post. His comments are useful for someone who new to this matter like me. One of his suggestion is: I should change my permalink structure from the current one to another pattern with less noise in it.

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Something is wrong, the Google Search Result from my blog looks bad, don’t laugh please :D

Posted by Daniel - 935 Views

I was checking my blog’s pages which are already indexed on the Google Search and I spotted some of the items there are look really-really bad. It gets me to realize that I am not doing the best yet in optimizing this blog for search engines. Then I asked myself “Do I exactly know how to get a better result in SEO?“, the answer is “No, I have idea at all…” but it won’t stop me from doing search and research to get the best result in SEO with an appealing look without ignoring that I am also building this blog for human like you.

Well, I guess I am talking too much, right? :D OK, lets start with Google Search. As I said before that most of the items shown there are looking bad. Means they’re not appealing enough to persuade the searchers to click it. Following are the reasons why I said they’re not appealing enough:

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Several tips to reduce Blog Noise, especially when your blog covers more than one niche

Posted by Daniel - 516 Views

This tips is useful for personal blogs, it can also be applied to other types of blog covering more than one niche focus or when you intend to include another niche to support the main focus, but mostly on personal blogs. It can also be considered as a complement for “Creating a user friendly website” but it focusing more on the content structure rather than on the design aspect. I don’t have any solid written definition yet on what exactly “Blog Noise” is but I hope you will get the point after reading this post.

I like to do blog walking, spend a regular time passing by on another blog especially on personal blogs while at the same time working on my social campaign by writing a comment on blogs with the same niche as mine or when it covers an interesting topic which is good enough to be ignored.

One thing I noticed when visiting other’s blogs is, most of them are noisy, not because they cover more than one topic but it’s more on the presentation. I still can see it covers 1 niche focus with lets say 3 related areas but it scattered all over the place. Just like when you have 30 cards with 3 different colors and then you throw those cards on the floor at the same time. You still can see there are 3 colors but it’s hard to locate and remember the position of each color group right?

Take this blog as an example, please assume as it yours. It covers more than one topic: Blogging Related Stuff, Programming Tips and Software Collections. Then consider the following case:

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How to remove your indexed pages or even your entire site from Google and Yahoo!

Posted by Daniel - 730 Views

The idea to start writing this post was started a couple months ago when I began to migrate my previous blog to this blog. I am amazed by WordPress Blogging Platform for its simplicity, plug-n-play feature and the ease of maintenance BUT My previous blog - which is still active for .NET experiment purposes - is using windows based server with no PHP and MySQL installed so there is now way to have a WordPress based blog on that server, SO I decided to get a linux based hosting service in order to be able to setup a WordPress blog, and here it is my current blog powered by WordPress.

Another reason why I decided to migrate is because I want to develop my blog but I don’t want the process distract my focus on my main job. With WordPress I can get the speed. For single needed feature there are so many plugins available to be plugged with little efforts and there are plenty of support I can get from the community.

OK enough with the opening story, let’s get into the main issue. There are pages from my previous blog which are indexed by Google and Yahoo! With the release of my new blog I want those indexed pages from my previous blog deleted from their index. Is it possible?

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