by james on February 4, 2009
Some time ago I started writing a big old post about the plugins I was using to optimise my site for SEO. I got distracted. Badly! I ended up getting sidetracked and creating a splog based around politics that aggregates a bunch of feeds together and displays them on a new domain – not something I’d recommend in a hurry, as it has also meant that this site has had a spanking in the rankings as well, and I have very effectively lost the completion with Cole for Bristol SEO. I have however discovered all sorts of useful bits of information on plugins and setting up Wordpress that I will of course be sharing in the future.
To get back to my original follow-up post on Wordpress SEO, the remaining seven plugins that I use on this site to optimise it for SEO are as follows:
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by james on August 11, 2008
The issue has been pretty swiftly resolved. Having had yet another look at my htaccess file I figured out that because I am using the aforementioned redirection plugin it was messing with my custom written htaccess file and doing essentially the same thing twice. Easy – remove the custom written one and let the redirection plugin get on with doing its thing. I would prefer to be using the custom htaccess file as I think it would probalby give me better control over a few things, but it doesn’t automatically update and redirect files that have changed like the plugin does, so I’ll carry on with the plugin for the time being.
Next on my list of things to do to optimise for SEO is to get a breadcrumb plugin sorted. I’ve decided to go for Breadcrumb NavXT as its got overwhelmingly good reviews, and looks like it should be able to sort out any issues if I get stupid and put posts in more than one category – something I’ve just learnt today, posts only go in one category, and you use tags to further subdivide and classify posts. However people aren’t always as sensible as that and can put things into more than one category. This being the case, the breadcrumb plugin needs to pick one.
With a bit of hacking about in the single.php and page.php files of the theme it lloks like I’ve got an acceptable breadcrumb – they are a bit long, but appear to be working fine.
