Archive for October, 2007

How Important Is A Robots txt. File

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Wednesday, October 31st 2007   
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Over the past two days, I have been writing about duplicate content. As discussed earlier, WordPress blogs are notorious for duplicate content. Duplicate content can confuse search engines, and can get you penalized by Google.
Today’s Lesson
While researching on Google’s website (webmaster tools), Google suggests using a robots.txt file as one way [...]

Plugin Reduces Duplicate Content

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Tuesday, October 30th 2007   
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Today’s Lesson
In an effort to reduce the amount of duplicate content I found on my blog pages, the first this was to use a plugin.
The plugin I am using, is named: Homepage Excerpts WordPress Plugin written by Daniel Scocco. Thank you Daniel.
What this easy to install, plugin does, is to [...]

Duplicate Content - Should You Worry

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, October 29th 2007   
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Over the past week, I have been spending time on Google’s website researching how search engines may see our blogs.
Today’s Lesson
One issue that caught my eye, is duplicate content in blogs.
With WordPress, we have duplicate content throughout our blogs. One post can be “recorded” in many different areas…i.e. monthly archives, [...]

Save Your Blog

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Thursday, October 25th 2007   
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It’s one thing to try and protect your blog posts from being plagiarized, however, now I’ve been asking myself, a different question.
Today’s Lesson
In the event of a natural, or man made disaster, how safe is my blog?
Recently, (week of 10/21/07), if you watch the news, you saw how a million (+/-) residents of the State [...]

Has Your Content Been Plagiarized

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Wednesday, October 24th 2007   
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In my previous post, I wrote about adding internal links in your posts, to deter having your content plagiarized.
Today’s Lesson
How would you know if your content is being plagiarized, and if so, what will you do?
Shortly after I started blogging, I wanted to see how [...]

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