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« on: September 03, 2008, 11:11:39 AM »
Hey guys

I had a warm welcome in the intros forum and was told to submit by site for review, so I guess this is the place...

Wasn't sure which site I wanted feedback on the most, but this one is a new blog for me, less than 2 months old:

http://www.online-business-logic.com/

I've been focussing 99% on writing content rather than anything else, but I'm starting to pick up a few 1st page rankings on Google already for semi-useful phrases (Industry names liek "Joe Lavery" and "Tellman Knudsen" and product names like "recession rescue system" etc).  Still no pagerank, but it's a new domain with not many backlinks yet.

I'm planning on altering the theme so it's wider - not got around to that yet.  Otherwise I'm open to any feedback you could give regarding SEO and user friendliness!

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Bill
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« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2008, 11:35:50 AM »
Hey Bill,

It all looks pretty good, layout-wise it resizes with the text quite well too.

Only changes I would make would be to move the page title right to the top of the head and to add in some meta keywords and a meta description.

You may need a plug-in for that, i'm not all that familiar with wordpress myself.

Then I would recommend you use our SEO Analysis Tool to check your pages Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2008, 11:44:58 AM »
Thanks for the tips MuNKy

Meta tags were on my to do list actually, but seems like I overlooked them (You're right, Wordpress doesn't support them as standard so a little tweaking is needed!)

Regarding the positioning of the title tag, I had no idea that made any difference (I just assumed so long as it was there that's all that mattered) so many thanks for filling me in.  Again, WP doesn't have the ability to set titles per page (by default it just uses the page heading and blog heading combined) and so this was a tweak but obviously needs a little more work - I'll get on it!

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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2008, 12:36:30 PM »
No problem Smiley

Having the title tag at the top is better for SEO, makes no difference otherwise though.
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« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2008, 12:38:13 PM »
Cool thanks for that - I'll have to pop my PHP hat back on and dive into the theme code again Wink
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« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2008, 01:16:00 PM »
Hi Bill - if you use a wordpress blog as I do here www.newhistoricalfictionbooks.co.uk then the SEO side of it becomes easier. Also you have this giant one page scroll down - that's a missed opportunity for page titles and longtailed linking. Apart from that - interesting stuff Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2008, 01:18:23 PM »
Yeah it may be a good idea to have less content on the page, maybe reduce the number of articles?
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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2008, 01:36:58 PM »
Actually I just put the site through the SEO analysis tool suggested above and the one thing that stood out was the number of links, over 100, obviously due to the number of posts on the front page.  I've dropped it down to 6 (default is 2) but some of my posts are quite long so maybe I should reduce it further.

From an SEO standpoint what would be better - drop it down to less posts (maybe 4?) or have a bigger number but only show a summary for each with a link to read the entire post.  I've always preferred blogs which show the whole post from a usability perspective, but I've no idea what the preference is for SEO.

I guess I could do a mix - maybe 3 full mosts followed by half a ozen short summaries?

BTW Ctabuk, that historical books theme breaks up in my browser (Flock 1.2.4 and also in FF 2)

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« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2008, 01:44:34 PM »
Interesting - I saw you come in http://www.davidcastle.org/BB/web-site-review/online-business-blog/
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I'll look into it - thanks
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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2008, 02:02:58 PM »
I think the second option would possibly be better, not sure if it would make much of a SEO difference. As long as you have more than 600 words on the page then you'll be fine. From a usability point of view it would be best to summarise the posts, then you give more options to your visitors and are more likely to keep them on your site. Then keep the full article to its own page.

SEO-wise though if you have archives or search for posts by month/date etc then I would disallow them in your robots.txt otherwise they'll all just get dumped in the supplemental index as they will be duplicated content. Plus they'll be taking PR that you'll want to keep on your main pages Wink
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2008, 02:30:38 PM »
Awesome, thanks for the great advice guys - really glad I found this place!
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2008, 02:40:53 PM »
No problem. Glad to help!  Wink
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