Of WordPress and Search Engines
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Hello,
I’ve been blogging for a couple of months now and have noticed that search engines tend to visit the main page and stop there without any aparent interest in content.
Now I admit that I have not used tags on the posts. Would the lack of tags make pages invisible to search engines?
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I also noticed an automated-like process taking a snippet of my own post and turning it into a comment. Is this a spam bot?
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I do not see any content at all in the wordpress.com blog linked to your username.
Search engines look for keywords in your text and categories/tags assigned to your posts. If you are not assigning categories to posts your page rank will not be as high as it could be. Also if you are not linking to other urls in your posts and/or do not have links displayed in your sidebar then your page rank will not be as high as it could be.
I believe the “snippet” you are referring to is a trackback ping created when another blogger refers to one of your posts in a post of their own.
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Er… you’re right… I used the installer software… ~_~;;; Sorry about that. I keep getting my coms and orgs mixed up – at this rate I’ll go cyborg. 9_9;;;
Thanks for the tips on tags… that might be why I don’t get them visited. ^_^
By any chance – would a track back look like the following?
by blogcategory in etc. at 1:13 pm on 28/05/2009
[…]insert fragment of post on my blog here with no link available to click[…]
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If you’re using installer software than you’re at the wrong place as you’re running different software. Please head over to http://wordpress.org/support
Please note that giving your URL would be helpful over there.
When you ask about the trackback as well, please point to where you see it. Editing what you’re seeing doesn’t allow us to them to help you.
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