Charles, Thanks for the tip on mobile subscription services. I agree that with the popularity of iPhone and the upcoming gPhone, the rush is on to mobile content consumption.
I will be adding FeedM8 service to my blog and will be checking in with you for more great insight.
Charles
· 1 year ago
Hi Peter,
It's not going anywhere, in fact I am already making a bit of money from my mobile RSS feed. FeedM8 is pretty neat... Not a ton of money, just a few pennies here and there but it's "found" money.
- Charles
Rob Blake
· 1 year ago
Hey Charles,
A big fan...and a buyer and user of the Master Plan from way back in June of 2006...so I've come to trust what you tell us.
I used your aff link in the sidebar and signed up with FeedM8 as I was looking to add mobile friendly to my bog - http://themortgageinsider.net - anyway. Sidebar integration went smoothly and there are no potential SEO dangers involved with a link...
However, I've got a question on website integration...did you do that for this blog? I'm a little skeptical...other peoples attempts to "mobilize" their blog with php redirects or other website integration plugings or services met with search engine problems since the SE bots followed the mobile links and spidered the wrong version of the site.
Others say the redirect - showing one version to some people and another version to others - is the classic definition of "cloaking" which we all know is a great way to get banned from Google.
What are your thoughts on website integration with FeedM8 to avoid both of these potential website killing issues? FeedM8 offers 3 ways to do it - an html header, a php redirect, or subdomain...or is website integration just to risky to bother with at this time?
Thanks again for all your help over the years...it's been invaluable!
Rob K. Blake The Mortgage Insider
Glen
· 1 year ago
HI CHarles.
Two things.
1..Love the video intro,, but did you deliberately stop your video after 21 seconds? Or was that jsut a glitch?
2. The coding you use where when someone clicks on video image in your blog, the main page fades and the video player appears in center screen.
Is that special script you had written to achieve that effect, or is it available from somewhere?
--Glen
Charles
· 1 year ago
Glen,
It is actually a Revver plugin for WordPress that Revver provides.
I didn't create a mobile version of this blog... I simply mobilized my RSS feed with FeedM8... As far as making the site itself more accessible to mobile devices, I haven't got that far yet.
One thing that should be done to ensure that search engine spiders would not index the mobile version of a site is to "disallow" (in robots.txt) robots from accessing the directory in which the mobile version of your site resides... Just a thought.
I haven't dug into FeedM8 too deeply... All I have is a link going from my header to their site for members to subscribe to my mobile RSS feed... I have made no other changes to this site that would jeopardize SE rankings.
I'll keep everyone posted if I choose to "mobilize" this blog by showing how I protect my rankings.
Glen
· 1 year ago
Charles,
When you mentioned...."I have made no other changes to this site that would jeopardize SE rankings"...that for me raises an interesting side point and that is ...'what sort of features or functions should be incorporate into a blog to maximize it's SE rankings?
I can't remember reading any information out there that gives a definitive answer on that question.
--Glen
Rob Blake
· 1 year ago
Charles,
Thanks for the quick reply on making the whole blog mobile friendly. I'll wait to do it until I hear back on this thread....lol.
I don't want to do all the different mobile browser testing...and I know you and the ThemeZoom guys live for it.
Good Luck! Rob PS: FeedM8 offers a subdomain method and then add your suggestion to make it off limits via robots.txt could do the trick...but I'll wait until you comment here or post on the blog.
Charles
· 1 year ago
Glen,
The answer depends on what blogging platform you are using.
Blogger needs no optimization but WordPress does... I am not sure on the other platforms.
I would also suggest Googling: seo plugins wordpress
Also remember to only assign a new post to ONE category. Your categories should also be well themed to the overall content of your blog. If you assign a post to more than one category then you may get slapped with a duplicate content penalty... I am not sure if WordPress has addressed this issue so you may want to do further research on your own.
I hope this helps...
Rob Blake
· 1 year ago
Glen,
Apply the internal linking principles Charles discovered and laid out in the Plan and the Master Plan are REALLY tough to do in a wordpress blog...that's the bad news.
The Good News is it worth the effort!
It took me months of research to discover a right plugins and the right template hacks...so I want you see below has my heart and soul in it...here goes.
The internal linking structure of a standard Wordpress template is all over the map...so you get a mish mash of links going everywhere including externals you may not know about. Plugin and template designers stick in external links....clean those out or add "nofollow" to all of them.
Then get the code to add nofollow to your blogroll ...that way you can have a ton of blogroll links but not bleed pr....think it's called add-links-att.php
Next use those plugins Charles mentioned to get header, descprition, and keyword metas set right.
Also use the wp_category_posts.php plugin to add nofollow to your Category and Page navigation menus...you don't want those links messing up the linking structure...but you want them there for users.. Virtually all Wordpress built in navigation needs to be nofollowed.
You can then create Heflin Silos using each Category as the Silo index page and posts in those Categories as content pages. As Charles said, you put each new content page in ONE Category only.
In the Home Page you put the equivalent of a category sitemap by writing some content using your Category title as anchor text creating links only to your Category pages.
The Category will then take over and link only to each post...and then you can hack the single.php file which serves up post content and manually add a hyperlink back to the Home Page...
It looks like Home>Category>Content>Home...you got yourself what I call a Heflin Loop. One way links all the way down to the content...end with the last content page linking back to Home.
I just recently applied this internal linking structure to blog...and reach a PR4 after languishing at PR3 for years..I never had any Category Page ever have anything but a PR of 0 but in the last month I 've got a number of Category pages at PR1 and 2 now.
Also being 2 clicks down, my content pages were certainly all PR0...now I've see a few getting 1 and 2 as well. The idea is to drive the SE bots deeper to the keyword rich content pages. All the internal and external standard Wordpress link structures were getting in the way, bleeding PR, making it harder to spider and index.
Or email me...somebody (Charles) helped me when I was in the dark, the least I can do is return the favor!
PS: BTW I'm in the highly competitive "mortgage" niche...it's not easy getting any front page rankings...but I've now got 4 or 5 and climbing...thanks to Charles!
PPS: Glen, stay at it...perseverance conquers all.
Glen
· 1 year ago
Charles,
Where I click on your image above, the main page fades and the video player appears, and plays, in center screen.
Is that a special script you had written to achieve that effect, or is it code that is available from somewhere?
Thanks
–Glen
Mike Willis
· 1 year ago
Hi Charles,
Just found your blog thanks to Eric. I am having a great time building my class project using the Profitable Website Building course. Traffic is increasing daily. Thank you!
Rob Blake,
I really appreciate your comment. I am using WP too, with the sep siloing plugin, and the all-in-one-seo-pack. Could you please tell me where I can find the wp_category_posts.php plugin to add nofollow to the page navigation menus? I have spent a fruitless hour looking for this.
Thanks a lot,
Mike
Charles
· 1 year ago
Hey Mike,
Thanks for stopping by and I'm glad you like the class.
Rob Blake
· 1 year ago
Hey Mike,
Say, I screwed the pooch earlier...I mentioned the wrong plugin.
The plugin is called the add-link-attr.php...or Add Link Attribute Plugin.
"Add Link Attribute is a WordPress plugin that lets you insert your own HTML tag attributes into (assumedly any) template function-generated links, without the need to rewrite those functions directly. Just use it in place of — or rather, along with — the specific template function."
I use it this way...install the plugin then put the following in my sidebar template
Talk about hours...that's what it took me to figure this little booger out!
Have fun!
Rob Blake
· 1 year ago
Oh Mike,
I forgot to give the sidebar template php code for categories too...the last one was for displaying Pages
All Comments
Thanks for the tip on mobile subscription services. I agree that with the popularity of iPhone and the upcoming gPhone, the rush is on to mobile content consumption.
I will be adding FeedM8 service to my blog and will be checking in with you for more great insight.
It's not going anywhere, in fact I am already making a bit of money from my mobile RSS feed. FeedM8 is pretty neat... Not a ton of money, just a few pennies here and there but it's "found" money.
- Charles
A big fan...and a buyer and user of the Master Plan from way back in June of 2006...so I've come to trust what you tell us.
I used your aff link in the sidebar and signed up with FeedM8 as I was looking to add mobile friendly to my bog - http://themortgageinsider.net - anyway. Sidebar integration went smoothly and there are no potential SEO dangers involved with a link...
However, I've got a question on website integration...did you do that for this blog? I'm a little skeptical...other peoples attempts to "mobilize" their blog with php redirects or other website integration plugings or services met with search engine problems since the SE bots followed the mobile links and spidered the wrong version of the site.
Others say the redirect - showing one version to some people and another version to others - is the classic definition of "cloaking" which we all know is a great way to get banned from Google.
What are your thoughts on website integration with FeedM8 to avoid both of these potential website killing issues? FeedM8 offers 3 ways to do it - an html header, a php redirect, or subdomain...or is website integration just to risky to bother with at this time?
Thanks again for all your help over the years...it's been invaluable!
Rob K. Blake
The Mortgage Insider
Two things.
1..Love the video intro,, but did you deliberately stop your video after 21 seconds? Or was that jsut a glitch?
2. The coding you use where when someone clicks on video image in your blog, the main page fades and the video player appears in center screen.
Is that special script you had written to achieve that effect, or is it available from somewhere?
--Glen
It is actually a Revver plugin for WordPress that Revver provides.
http://revver.com/go/wp/
I didn't create a mobile version of this blog... I simply mobilized my RSS feed with FeedM8... As far as making the site itself more accessible to mobile devices, I haven't got that far yet.
One thing that should be done to ensure that search engine spiders would not index the mobile version of a site is to "disallow" (in robots.txt) robots from accessing the directory in which the mobile version of your site resides... Just a thought.
I haven't dug into FeedM8 too deeply... All I have is a link going from my header to their site for members to subscribe to my mobile RSS feed... I have made no other changes to this site that would jeopardize SE rankings.
I'll keep everyone posted if I choose to "mobilize" this blog by showing how I protect my rankings.
When you mentioned...."I have made no other changes to this site that would jeopardize SE rankings"...that for me raises an interesting side point and that is ...'what sort of features or functions should be incorporate into a blog to maximize it's SE rankings?
I can't remember reading any information out there that gives a definitive answer on that question.
--Glen
Thanks for the quick reply on making the whole blog mobile friendly. I'll wait to do it until I hear back on this thread....lol.
I don't want to do all the different mobile browser testing...and I know you and the ThemeZoom guys live for it.
Good Luck!
Rob
PS: FeedM8 offers a subdomain method and then add your suggestion to make it off limits via robots.txt could do the trick...but I'll wait until you comment here or post on the blog.
The answer depends on what blogging platform you are using.
Blogger needs no optimization but WordPress does... I am not sure on the other platforms.
What platform do you use?
My blogs are WordPress.
--Glen
http://theblogjoint.com/2006/09/21/best-seo-plu...
I would also suggest Googling: seo plugins wordpress
Also remember to only assign a new post to ONE category. Your categories should also be well themed to the overall content of your blog. If you assign a post to more than one category then you may get slapped with a duplicate content penalty... I am not sure if WordPress has addressed this issue so you may want to do further research on your own.
I hope this helps...
Apply the internal linking principles Charles discovered and laid out in the Plan and the Master Plan are REALLY tough to do in a wordpress blog...that's the bad news.
The Good News is it worth the effort!
It took me months of research to discover a right plugins and the right template hacks...so I want you see below has my heart and soul in it...here goes.
The internal linking structure of a standard Wordpress template is all over the map...so you get a mish mash of links going everywhere including externals you may not know about. Plugin and template designers stick in external links....clean those out or add "nofollow" to all of them.
Then get the code to add nofollow to your blogroll ...that way you can have a ton of blogroll links but not bleed pr....think it's called add-links-att.php
Next use those plugins Charles mentioned to get header, descprition, and keyword metas set right.
Also use the wp_category_posts.php plugin to add nofollow to your Category and Page navigation menus...you don't want those links messing up the linking structure...but you want them there for users.. Virtually all Wordpress built in navigation needs to be nofollowed.
You can then create Heflin Silos using each Category as the Silo index page and posts in those Categories as content pages. As Charles said, you put each new content page in ONE Category only.
In the Home Page you put the equivalent of a category sitemap by writing some content using your Category title as anchor text creating links only to your Category pages.
The Category will then take over and link only to each post...and then you can hack the single.php file which serves up post content and manually add a hyperlink back to the Home Page...
It looks like Home>Category>Content>Home...you got yourself what I call a Heflin Loop. One way links all the way down to the content...end with the last content page linking back to Home.
I just recently applied this internal linking structure to blog...and reach a PR4 after languishing at PR3 for years..I never had any Category Page ever have anything but a PR of 0 but in the last month I 've got a number of Category pages at PR1 and 2 now.
Also being 2 clicks down, my content pages were certainly all PR0...now I've see a few getting 1 and 2 as well. The idea is to drive the SE bots deeper to the keyword rich content pages. All the internal and external standard Wordpress link structures were getting in the way, bleeding PR, making it harder to spider and index.
It works!
Is that about right Charles?
Feel free to see what I did ...look at the source...at http:themortgageinsider.net
Or email me...somebody (Charles) helped me when I was in the dark, the least I can do is return the favor!
PS: BTW I'm in the highly competitive "mortgage" niche...it's not easy getting any front page rankings...but I've now got 4 or 5 and climbing...thanks to Charles!
PPS: Glen, stay at it...perseverance conquers all.
Where I click on your image above, the main page fades and the video player appears, and plays, in center screen.
Is that a special script you had written to achieve that effect, or is it code that is available from somewhere?
Thanks
–Glen
Just found your blog thanks to Eric. I am having a great time building my class project using the Profitable Website Building course. Traffic is increasing daily. Thank you!
Rob Blake,
I really appreciate your comment. I am using WP too, with the sep siloing plugin, and the all-in-one-seo-pack. Could you please tell me where I can find the wp_category_posts.php plugin to add nofollow to the page navigation menus? I have spent a fruitless hour looking for this.
Thanks a lot,
Mike
Thanks for stopping by and I'm glad you like the class.
Say, I screwed the pooch earlier...I mentioned the wrong plugin.
The plugin is called the add-link-attr.php...or Add Link Attribute Plugin.
Find it here:
http://wordpress.emea.nl/?p=200
This is what it does:
"Add Link Attribute is a WordPress plugin that lets you insert your own HTML tag attributes into (assumedly any) template function-generated links, without the need to rewrite those functions directly. Just use it in place of — or rather, along with — the specific template function."
I use it this way...install the plugin then put the following in my sidebar template
Talk about hours...that's what it took me to figure this little booger out!
Have fun!
I forgot to give the sidebar template php code for categories too...the last one was for displaying Pages