Comments on: Search Engine Optimization 101

By: Bry

Bry — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:58:13 +0000

why you didn’t optimize your stammy.com? I think its short and easy to spell :)

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By: Ursula

Ursula — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:21:48 +0000

Thanks for the tips. But I have to say, I long for the days, when blogging was a lot simplier.

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Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:31:34 +0000

[...] Most, if not all of us, have heard about this critical step in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Paul Stamatiou even wrote about this earlier this month. But as Nick says, I feel many forget the importance of branding when implementing this step. Even Darren Rowse completely strips out his Blog Title at ProBlogger – something I don’t completely agree with even though ProBlogger’s audience is already huge. [...]

By: New Look Complete at nechbi.com

New Look Complete at nechbi.com — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:39:26 +0000

[...] Now that I am Minted, I can now keep a better eye on what people like on my site and where they go. I have also been reading up on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) from Paul Stamatiou and others to get the most out of incoming traffic. It would seem that I have already employed most of the recommendations, so here’s hoping.. [...]

By: Christian Montoya

Christian Montoya — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:18:57 +0000

Ha, keyword density. If you’ve ever read the content at cssliquid.com, then you can see that I knew about this a long time ago :)

By: Jeremy Flint

Jeremy Flint — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:52:14 +0000

FYI, if you use K2 as a wordpress theme, it already puts the title before the blog name on single-post pages.

By: nate koechley

nate koechley — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:36:29 +0000

In addition to the SEO benefits of the title-before-blog-name format, it is better for usability too. If I bookmark one of your articles in either del.icio.us or the standard browser bookmarks, I care much more about the title of the specific entry than the blog it’s from. Seeing a bunch of links of “PaulStam….”, “PaulStam….”, “PaulStam….” is useless, but “Search Engine…..” lets me know more quickly which article the bookmark points to. (Plus, the origin blog is easily deduced from the usually-visible url, at least in delicious and the like.)

Likewise, if I have many pages from your site open, the title of the post is the differentiator that makes finding the window or browser tab I’m looking for possible.

thanks,
nate

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:08:16 +0000

Well waiting for paul.com might be a very long time.

You might want to consider other avenues with easy to remember domain names.

I know Bryan eventually lucked out with his “domain backorder” process but he didn’t have the most pleasant experience.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:48:27 +0000

Hahahah Chris, thanks for the searching. The attraction of a domain like paul.com is that it’s short and easy to spell.. and I would only consider an established .com TLD.. none of that new .name stuff for me.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:44:36 +0000

Hey I know paul.com isn’t available but what about these:

paulsworld.us
paulsworld.ws
paulsworld.name
paulrules.net
paulrules.org
paulrules.info
paulrules.ws
paulrules.name
paul9rules.com
paul9rules.net
paul9rules.org
paul9rules.us
paul9rules.ws
paul9rules.name

paulsreviews.net
paulsreviews.org
paulsreviews.us
paulsreviews.ws
paulsreviews.name

By: DesWire.com

DesWire.com — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:16:03 +0000

Hey… Nice tips there…

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:55:28 +0000

I’ve nuked my blog name on all pages of my blog and it’s worked quite well to my advantage over the last two years on my blog. Every page title just has the name of the entry, and that’s it.

By: Pronet Advertising

Pronet Advertising — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:48:50 +0000

Blogs need SEO too…

Paul Stamatiou recently posted on search engine optimization 101. He talks about some basic search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and how he used them on his blog to improve his traffic….

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:35:30 +0000

Good stuff there Paul. I will give a few of these a go on my site and see what happens.

By: Abi

Abi — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:09:01 +0000

I’ve been meaning to do this for a million years (three months) thanks for giving me the reminder. Even with all of the SEO magic in the world it is unlikely that I’ll ever appear above Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice in Google. Now MSN is a whole different story…

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Wordpress and SEO @ elifoner.com — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:40:02 +0000

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By: M.e.

M.e. — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:31:03 +0000

Semantic markup and accessibility suddenly becomes a serious consideration when you realize search engine spiders are essentially in the same boat as those with disabilities.

Search engine rankings on my bands gig calendar increased dramatically when I started populating the description metadata with upcoming performance info. I highly recommend paying attention to that part.

By: viperteq

viperteq — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:58:18 +0000

I see. Thanks for the tip!

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:24:58 +0000

Viperteq, something like the following in your header file: <?php wp_title(' '); ?><?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) { ?> - <?php } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

By: viperteq

viperteq — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:20:35 +0000

You mentioned placing the articles title before the sites name. Would you mind maybe showing how that would be represented in the code?

By: Derek Punsalan

Derek Punsalan — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:16:28 +0000

Man, when did this blogging stuff get so complicated? I reemember when people would just write to write. No worries of SEO or any of that jazz. Now all I hear in the banter box is how to do this or that concerning content publishing. Blogging has gotten so damn serious. Shoot ;) Nice tips though. I’ll make sure to try not to keep my posts too dense with keywords for the sake of readers.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:27:41 +0000

Hey Stammy,

I just wanted to clarify one thing about keyword density; you should write for your visitors and not keyword stuff. If your content is on a PDA, then you will naturally mention the name of that PDA.

Glad to hear that you learned something from my blog. :-)