September 8, 2008 – 12:30 am
For beginner WordPress bloggers, creating a search bot friendly robots.txt is a headache sometimes. This is particularly true for me: I first blindly copied a robots.txt from some site, which resulted in the blocking of all my posts. I late found out that robots.txt was targeted to the WordPress with modified permlinks, and it blocked all posts which has a ? in default permlinks.
Learning a hard lesson, I found a simple robots.txt will just do the job. Don’t copy robots.txt from sites that claim their robots.txt can do magic to SEO.
So how to create a simple and easy robots.txt for your new WordPress blog?
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I stumbled upon a cool Wordpress plugin called WP Cumulus. It animates the Tag Cloud widget using Flash, and renders tags into a rotating sphere. I am a little tired after an overhaul of my blog a few days ago, so I’ll bookmark this plugin in this post and implement later. It appears to support Wordpress 2.5.
Download: Flash based tag cloud frontend
Update: I finally implemented this Flash Plugin on my site. It can’t show Tags in Chinese, and I hope it has an option to display Tags in a cube. Other than these minor complaints, it is easy to install and configure, and certainly make your site look cool.
Although I like the WordPress theme Dkret3, but its fonts and the layout appear to be a bit crowded, and not so ease on the readers. Yesterday, after a few hours of modifying, I gave this blog a look with my personal flavors. The changes are: Read More »
“I’m Knight” provided some valuable insights on the reorganization of categories and tags under WordPress
Why reorganize?
- consolidate into fewer categories and make it one level only. No more hierarchy category.
- the tag feature is build-in now. I can just make a open source category and tag each entry with more specific tag like Debian and LAMP.
- tag your old post too, make it more visible to the search engine
- tags can sort out the related posts and help display them to visitors
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