Wordpress and Permalinks
Posted on May 9, 2008
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If you are a Wordpress user as I am, I wanted to offer a tip to help you maximize your search engine results. Make sure you set your “Permalinks” to the Custom option with the following as the custom field.
/%postname%/
The reason? When you enter new entries, the default settings sets all the pages to a numerical schema such as
http://www.webshoptalk.com/?p=2
Search engines that find your pages and especially links to your content cannot give much weight to a URL with something as ambiguous as “?p=2″. However, with this customized Permlink structure, your pages and links will now be the title of your entry which, in this entry’s case would be:
http://www.webshoptalk.com/wordpress-and-permalinks
That provides two great search engine friendly words and will greatly bolster your sites search engine effectiveness over time.
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Further Thoughts on Flock
Posted on May 5, 2008
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I gave Flock, which is a web browser I mentioned in some previous posts, a good run and have finally ditched it in favor of Firefox 3 (beta 5 as of this writing) and Safari. I finally came to a point where speed was the ONLY thing and I found Flock to be considerably slow overall. The ideas are good - but for someone like myself who dabbles but does not immerse himself into the social network realm, I still have to rely on what web browsers actually are for me - web browsers.
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How Often Should We Update?
Posted on May 5, 2008
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As some of you may know, I serve at a local church as an in-house web developer on top of my responsibilities in music, graphic arts and the like. I started working at this church back in February 2004 and had their new website up within 4 months or so. That site lasted us all the way until the end of last year when we rolled out our latest edition [ www.PCCToday.com ].
Now, it’s just a few months into the new design and with new leadership here at the church that I serve at, there’s a good chance we may look to move forward on yet a newer design. (Don’t quote me on that…but I envision and secretly hope to look at some new ideas in the short and long-term)
My take? Hey, I love designing and exploring new ideas. Over the years, I’ve grown tougher skin and find myself much more willing to take constructive criticism these days as I strive to get better at my craft. Humility is a good thing to have otherwise creatives can sometimes implode with their own bloated notions of superiority. I like thinking that no matter what I create, I can and will create something even better next time.
The one thing the process I find myself in does do is beg the question - “How Often Should We Change A Site?” Should it be every 5 years? Every 3 years? Every year?
I love change so I may not be a good one to ask since my mind moves on to the next idea pretty quickly once one idea has been realized.
Anyone have any feedback?
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