November
19
2009
The most common way that search engine robots find and spider a Blog is by following hyperlinks from other sites. In search engine terminology, these sites are known as
“found pages”. Some search engines also have a “submit URL” form, where you can suggest that they add your Blog to their index. Typically, you just give the primary URL for your site (like http://www.tandiltheme.com), and this address is added to their list of links to check and crawl.
There are some services that let you submit your site “automatically”. Currently, there are only four “major” search engines, and you can’t even submit to all of them. 95% of your search engine traffic will come from one of these major search engines. This is not really a good deal, even if it’s free. The same applies to software that submits your site to “thousands” of search engines. As I’ve just stated, only a few search engines actually matter. Using this software is more likely to generate a flood of junk email than anything else, so stay away of it.
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November
5
2009
When you tweak your Blog, there are some basic rules that apply to designing your pages to be “search engine friendly”. Keep these rules in mind as you build your site, or you could be in for a lot of headaches and problems. All these rules have to do with creating a Blog that search engine bots and spiders can navigate and read easily. If you have no option, but to “break” one of these rules, you’ll need to sort out the details of making your content accessible to the search engines.
First Rule: Try to Avoid Frames.
Search engines don’t handle frames very well, so you’re better off avoiding the use of frames. If you must use them, simply create a “NOFRAMES” version of
your Blog that links all of your content together. But the best option is to avoid frames.
Second Rule: Flash, QuickTime, Add-ons, etc.
Search engine spiders actually can read and index Flash web sites. The problem is that they can’t really trust what they find in the Flash files, because there’s no easy way
to determine which text is visible. Designing your entire site in Flash is crazy from a usability standpoint. This doesn’t mean that you can’t use Flash, QuickTime, or other plug-ins selectively on your HTML web pages. You can. There are a lot of cool things you can do with embedded audio and video, or with the interactive elements that Flash can create. Just because search engines don’t see it, that doesn’t mean you can’t use it, but be picky and selective if you want to use those elements.
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October
28
2009
When you do some research to rank your sites better in Search Engines, you should be careful where you get your advice from. I recently met a guy at a conference, who thinks that he’s getting special treatment from Google because he inserted the Google search box on his web site. He was planning to publish an e-book, with all his “secrets about SEO”. He has a very nice site with an active blog, which is always getting new inbound links from other Blogs, but that was just an afterthought to him.
If you believe that there’s some top secret about SEO that the “insiders” are not telling you, you are experiencing normal healthy paranoia. Good for you, since your ancestors were the same way, and sometimes it helped them survive. Back in the Stone Age, if one of your caveman buddies drank some yellow water from the hot springs, and got sick, everyone stayed away from it. The ability to learn is a big part of why we’re all still here trying to improve day after day.
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October
7
2009
The concept of “User Feedback” is very important for a Blog. Most Search Engines have some notion of “user experience” in their rankings. This can be as simple as measuring whether a surfer who clicks a link on search results returns to look at another result. Also all search engines have ways of measuring or estimating the overall user satisfaction with your Blog. How much of a factor this is today, we don’t know, but you can bet that it will become more important over time.
By designing our sites for human visitors and “surfer friendly”, not just for spiders, we are protecting ourselves against any negative impact from user feedback. This is a very important part of the “fast start” system, and always has been. Take this point into consideration when you build your Blog. You can also use the WordPress Tandil Theme to make this even easier. This theme was coded to make your blog surfer friendly.
September
17
2009
Hello everyone! I just updated Tandil WordPress Theme today! I made some improvements in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). To stay tuned about future Theme Updates you can Follow Us on Twitter or Subscribe to the RSS Feed. You can also leave a comment if you have any questions.
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September
10
2009
Tandil WordPress Theme version 1.0 was released today. Tandil Theme is a very good looking WordPress template with a stylish and elegant design. This Theme can be used for any niche and is compatible with the latest WordPress version. It was optimized for Search Engines and is 100% Valid to CSS level 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Tandil includes many Theme Options, you can set your own RSS and Twitter Accounts. It supports the latest WordPress features, including Sticky Post and Threaded Comments.
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September
3
2009
You can check this post to see the comments template and response form.
Hello this is a test. Will try a link test —> Link color and style
Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them. If you link other WordPress blogs they’ll be notified automatically. Custom fields can be used to add extra metadata to a post that you can use in your theme.
September
3
2008
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
November
30
2007
Some block quote tests:
Here’s a one line quote.
This part isn’t quoted. Here’s a much longer quote:
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Proin et lorem. Quisque odio. Ut gravida, pede sed convallis facilisis, magna dolor egestas dolor, non pulvinar metus magna in velit. Morbi vitae sem sit amet arcu vehicula gravida. Morbi placerat, est id pulvinar sollicitudin, ante augue vestibulum turpis, eu ultrices pede metus sit amet justo. Suspendisse metus. Mauris convallis mattis risus. Nullam et ipsum eu magna hendrerit pellentesque. Ut malesuada turpis nec orci. Donec at urna imperdiet libero tincidunt lacinia. Phasellus mollis leo pharetra velit. Quisque tortor. Nam pharetra est vel felis. Maecenas tincidunt, purus ac ultrices vehicula, ante magna ultrices orci, ac malesuada lectus purus sit amet odio. Vivamus id libero. Vivamus enim nisi, egestas aliquam, tincidunt malesuada, semper at, turpis. Vestibulum risus dolor, placerat quis, adipiscing sed, scelerisque a, enim. Vestibulum posuere.
Mauris felis. Vivamus ornare. Maecenas mi. Mauris quis nunc. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Suspendisse potenti. In at lorem. Aliquam sed ligula eu erat ultrices congue. Aenean interdum semper purus. Phasellus eget lorem.
And some trailing text.
September
4
2007
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas sapien. Quisque suscipit tincidunt ipsum. Pellentesque ac nisi blandit tellus eleifend vulputate. Donec fermentum dolor nec pede. Phasellus pede. Sed ut odio. Etiam pharetra neque auctor sapien. Ut dolor lacus, pharetra vitae, dignissim sit amet, fringilla eu, tellus. Etiam vestibulum. Cras risus felis, interdum ac, ullamcorper id, euismod id, augue. Quisque tristique risus quis arcu. Pellentesque id nisl sed turpis dapibus eleifend. Aliquam non urna. In dictum commodo felis. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Fusce hendrerit. Nullam ligula nunc, placerat a, ultrices in, pellentesque at, tortor. Nunc volutpat justo vestibulum sem. Aenean tincidunt sem sed nibh.Nullam commodo, diam sodales porta aliquet, metus erat interdum massa, vel tristique lacus orci et arcu. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aliquam est orci, varius quis, dictum ut, egestas sed, tellus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec sodales dictum enim. In lorem sem, ultricies vel, eleifend eu, rhoncus a, nibh. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nam aliquam porta quam. Suspendisse id magna. Sed pulvinar ante eget erat. Nunc mauris tortor, venenatis hendrerit, blandit et, dapibus ut, enim. Etiam est diam, nonummy at, porta at, hendrerit in, ligula. Maecenas ut arcu vitae lacus gravida tristique. Phasellus venenatis. Suspendisse tortor augue, accumsan et, dapibus sed, tempor non, urna. Integer eget magna.
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