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Re: The Textpattern SEO PLUGIN thread
I miss Mark’s writing. He piped up on a thread over at Burningbird a while back, but denied allegations that he’d be returning any time soon.
wilshire: at one point a site of mine cracked the top ten in Google and Yahoo for “scantily-clad girls”. ph34r my weblogging PageRank. Plus I’ve been running my current site for less than a month and I’m already #1 in Google for “shtuff” again…
Last edited by ubernostrum (2005-01-27 05:38:51)
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Re: The Textpattern SEO PLUGIN thread
Ubernostrum, you are right that Textpattern gets many things right — clean URLs, semantic structure, and more. After all, that’s why I like it. On the other hand it’s a pity that other things do not work so well.
Regarding duplicate content, have a look at links to comments including txp:recent_comments and single comment permalink. They all points to URLs without URL title, what makes duplicate content.
Keywords in the title tag work fine in signgle articles, but not in sections, particulary in sections with more than one ord in their real name, or in other languages than English. The same meta description — works for single articles, doesn’t work for sections and categories pages. And meta description is still very important tag in search engines.
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Re: The Textpattern SEO PLUGIN thread
Regardless of SEO or how TXP fares, there are already two places for plugins to be listed, no matter <em>what</em> they are for…
The <a href=“http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=2193”>Central Plugin List</a> in this forum,
and the <a href=“http://textpattern.org/”>Textpattern Resources</a> site, <em>Plugin</em> section.
Add plugins there like people expect them to be.
If a better index for searching plugins is needed, which is quite possibly the case, then hopefully that will be addressed by the community at some point by first taking into account those primary plugin pools. Spreading lists all around the forum isn’t doing anybody any good.
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#16 2005-01-27 18:57:16
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Re: The Textpattern SEO PLUGIN thread
> Destry wrote:
> Regardless of SEO or how TXP fares, there are already two places for plugins to be listed, no matter <em>what</em> they are for…
The <a href=“http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=2193”>Central Plugin List</a> in this forum,
and the <a href=“http://textpattern.org/”>Textpattern Resources</a> site, <em>Plugin</em> section.
Add plugins there like people expect them to be.
This part of the forum is named “plugins”, this kindo says its ok to post threads regarding this subject…
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Re: The Textpattern SEO PLUGIN thread
Marek: meta descriptions are overrated; in some engines you get them displayed, yes, but if and only if the description exactly matches the search query and the search query exactly matches other contents of the page. I’d rather work on quality content than meta tags any day. If you absolutely insist on having them, though, I’d recommend fiddling with custom fields and/or excerpts.
björn: The point is not that it’s inappropriate to post about plugins in this part of the forum. The point is that there are already efforts to have a central list of plugins organized, so people don’t have to hop around in dozens of forum threads to find what they’re looking for. Why have fifty plugin indexes when we could have one?
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