connecting*the*dots

8 Responses to “search engine optimization tip number one…”  

1. 1 Sue Oct 20th, 2006 at 9:51 pm

   That seems to break my WordPress. Did you change your options? What did you change it to?

2. 2 sean coon Oct 21st, 2006 at 12:06 am

   in your wordpress dashboard, go to options > permalinks and choose the custom setting. on my posts, i want to display the month and year (along with the title) so i use this syntax in the custom field:

   /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

   that should automatically set your URL to display year, month, full title.

3. 3 Sue Oct 21st, 2006 at 8:21 am

   OK, then it says to update the .htaccess. How did you do that?

4. 4 sean coon Oct 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am

   here’s the wordpress codex page that explains the process in detail.

5. 5 beth Oct 22nd, 2006 at 4:23 pm

   Another thing alot of our local bloggers don’t seem to be doing is redirecting their www.domainname.com to domainname.com or vice versa. Google will rate the blog much higher in it’s listings when you combine the PageRank of the two pages.

6. 6 lil coon Oct 23rd, 2006 at 10:35 am

   I can’t change my permalinks due to my host server… That is something that is eating at me. I guess I have to wait till next year when it is time to renew.

7. 7 beth Oct 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pm

   Let me guess Yahoo? I learned that after 24 hours of setting things up and said nope. not going to do this.

8. 8 lil coon Nov 3rd, 2006 at 11:26 pm

   i fixed my bug. found it on wordpress fourms.

   my custom tag should be like this

   /index.php/%author%/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/