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Optimizing WordPress Websites

steve — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:07:16 +0000

If you are using WordPress as the hosting platform, (which Is my preferred choice )then you should be aware that out of the box it isn’t that search engine friendly. However it is easy to put right.
Over on my WordPress site is a short tutorial covering the most important settings to Optimize WordPress and Make it SEO friendly.

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Need website But don’t Want to do Coding?

steve — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:26:10 +0000

Question- Hey, I am a sports journalist, now thinking about building a sports website, specific for formula1, how can i proceed? i dont have much knowledge about coding and formatting, -which host shall i go for? my criterias are like, 7-8 pages, plenty numbaer of posts, photos, should have space for sponcers…etc… like all other F1 websites….

Answer- Go for WordPress on a host in your country if possible See website hosting for my recommendations but any host that supports php and mysql should be ok.

You may also want to look at my other site on How to build website with WordPress to get you started.

With WordPress you will not need detailed knowledge of coding as it is taken care of by WordPress making it the ideal tool for no techies.

You can also expand the functionality with free plugins so you can have banner ads,polls and lots of other advanced features all without having to write any code.

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WordPress Contact 7 plugin

steve — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:57:58 +0000

I was looking at my site using Google webmaster tools and noticed that I had duplicate title tags on some of the pages of my consulting site. Here is what I saw

You should notice that the pages like contact have additional pages with ?wpcf7=json added on.

Further investigation showed that it was probably the contact 7 form plugin causing the problem and the only course of action was to deactivate and un- install the plugin.

I also (using webmaster tools) requested that the duplicate pages be removed and edited my robots.tx file to exclude pages with ?wpcf7=json in them.

here is the new one:

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# All robots will spider the domain

User-agent: *
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /blog/page/

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/?
Allow: /

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I checked that it was ok using the robots.txt checker in the Google Webmaster tools.

Hopefully in a month or so it should sort itself out as Google drops the other pages.

If you are using the contact 7 plugin you may want to check your site. I moved to the cforms plugin.- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cforms/

Resources:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
the-unusual-string-wpcf7json-will-it-hurt-my-seo

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