Comments on: Robert Scoble demonstrates his lack of SEO understanding - or is he dodging the real issue? http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/ books : blogs : business : home : health : happiness Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:07:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sawyer http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-129 Sawyer Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:29:21 +0000 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-129 Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page. I have several hundred 600+ inbound links. I have pinged Technorati manually and used pingoat as well as pingomatic every time I add a new blog. There is plenty of content, about 30 articles. What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog? Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page.
I have several hundred 600+ inbound links.
I have pinged Technorati manually and used pingoat as well as pingomatic every time I add a new blog.
There is plenty of content, about 30 articles.
What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog?

]]> By: Andy Beard http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-119 Andy Beard Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:11:25 +0000 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-119 Linkfarm is actually much less of a problem. The big problem is that pagerank is shared between all the links on a page On this very page (currently) you have more links to external sites than your own internal pages. Hack the code of whatever plugin you are using for the social buttons and add "nofollow". I am sure Sitemeter really needs more PR Linkfarm is actually much less of a problem.

The big problem is that pagerank is shared between all the links on a page

On this very page (currently) you have more links to external sites than your own internal pages.

Hack the code of whatever plugin you are using for the social buttons and add “nofollow”.
I am sure Sitemeter really needs more PR

]]> By: b3h3 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-34 b3h3 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:32:52 +0000 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-34 Thanks for the link! True - a big blogroll can be counter productive because your site starts to stray into the realm on being a link farm. The same is true on any large set of links. But for a reasonable number, there's no penalty. Thanks for the link!

True - a big blogroll can be counter productive because your site starts to stray into the realm on being a link farm. The same is true on any large set of links. But for a reasonable number, there’s no penalty.

]]> By: Andy Beard http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-33 Andy Beard Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:25:15 +0000 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-33 Your readers might find this little piece on the typical blog sidebar interesting although the site in question might have changed the sidebar now (the owner of the site thanked me in the comments) <a href="http://andybeard.eu/2006/11/how-a-blogroll-can-kill-your-pagerank.html" rel="nofollow">How a blogroll Can Destroy Your Pagerank</a> Maybe Google are also going to start discounting internal tagging methods employed by some sites as well. <a href="http://andybeard.eu/2006/11/wordpresscom-linking-structure.html" rel="nofollow">Wordpress.com Linking Structure</a> Your readers might find this little piece on the typical blog sidebar interesting although the site in question might have changed the sidebar now (the owner of the site thanked me in the comments)

How a blogroll Can Destroy Your Pagerank

Maybe Google are also going to start discounting internal tagging methods employed by some sites as well.

Wordpress.com Linking Structure

]]> By: b3h3 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-32 b3h3 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:18:26 +0000 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-32 Robert, some points: - Google's page ranking/site ranking algorithm is probably one of the most closely guarded secrets out there. Having been studying and experimenting and reading extensively about SEO for several years now I can tell you that you can't make a bold statement without being wrong. - "Links in the sidebar that appear every single day are FAR FAR FAR less ranked than links in the content part". A couple of issues about that statement. First, unless Google scrutinizes the code and extracts the sidebar code from the rest of the page (which I doubt, given how big a job that would be - although some people are known to radically change the default template used by the various platforms in case Google do that), the sidebar is just a standard part of the page. Also, the sidebar is a constantly changing in terms of links (latest posts, etc). - A link, even in the sidebar (or header or footer, which are static) from a high PageRank site to a site with lower PR is almost always beneficial to the site getting the link. FACT. Robert, some points:

- Google’s page ranking/site ranking algorithm is probably one of the most closely guarded secrets out there. Having been studying and experimenting and reading extensively about SEO for several years now I can tell you that you can’t make a bold statement without being wrong.

- “Links in the sidebar that appear every single day are FAR FAR FAR less ranked than links in the content part”. A couple of issues about that statement. First, unless Google scrutinizes the code and extracts the sidebar code from the rest of the page (which I doubt, given how big a job that would be - although some people are known to radically change the default template used by the various platforms in case Google do that), the sidebar is just a standard part of the page. Also, the sidebar is a constantly changing in terms of links (latest posts, etc).

- A link, even in the sidebar (or header or footer, which are static) from a high PageRank site to a site with lower PR is almost always beneficial to the site getting the link. FACT.

]]> By: Robert Scoble http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-31 Robert Scoble Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:05:55 +0000 http://www.b3h3.com/blog/2006/11/10/robert-scoble-demonstrates-his-lack-of-seo-understanding-or-is-he-dodging-the-real-issue/#comment-31 Sorry, talk to the folks at Microsoft and Google. Links in the sidebar that appear every single day are FAR FAR FAR less ranked than links in the content part of the page that changes every day. Sorry, talk to the folks at Microsoft and Google. Links in the sidebar that appear every single day are FAR FAR FAR less ranked than links in the content part of the page that changes every day.

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