Archive for April, 2006

It takes time to get your blog ranked in search engines

Monday, April 10th, 2006

It doesn't take long to get your blog indexed by the search engines. All you need is a few links from a few other websites. But it does take increasingly long to get your website to rank well. This is to be understood and accepted. In fact, it's getting increasingly ...

Gutenberg rolls over in grave: WordPress replaces printing press

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

The World was a primitive place in 1436. Times were tough and it was rare that someone would make a scientific discovery. The fact that no one could share newly discovered information made the advancement of civilization impossible. People were forced to live a life of squalid impoverishment, and the ...

Is Technorati a bunch of hype?

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

This is a question I've been forced to ask myself lately. The concept of linking to a website on every post seems like a marketing tactic, rather than something useful. Sure the idea of tag could be useful, but why would you link to every post with a tag? Doing this ...

Do blogs get higher PR than regular websites?

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

This is a question that I've pondered for awhile, and looking at recent results, it's possible they do. It seems that Google might just treat weblog links differently than other links. This blog you're reading now has received a PageRank of 5, which is very respectable considering the website went ...

Basic WordPress SEO seems to be enough

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I have to admit, the built in SEO by WordPress is quite good, and the blogs produced by the software are very search engine friendly. It's also extremely easy to tweak the meta tags, and that appears to be about all you have to do to get your WordPress posts ...

If you keep on blogging, you’ll pass someone

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

The beautiful thing about blogs is the bias towards freshness. This is the key opening where you can make your impact if you're a new blogger. Although established blogs always do well, blogs that aren't updated tend to fall off. If you're active, you have a chance to move yourself ...

April progress report

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Results have not been too bad at all for the Blog Republic in its' initial stages. March was not even a full month (starting on the 12th). There are currently 59 pages indexed in Google, which is all of them, and there's a small bit of search engine traffic coming ...