I was searching the other day for a robots.txt file example and it took me a few minutes to find some fragmented samples in forums. So here is a quick post for you wordpress bloggers who are managing your own Search Engine Optimization..SEO.
Joomla fortunately, automatically sets up a robot.txt file when you do your install through cpanel.
With wordpress for some reason, you need to do it manually. I find this a bit bizarre especially since WP espouses to be very search engine friendly right out of the gate. Anyways here is a a basic robot.txt sample.
You can use notepad, word or any text program will work. Then, upload the this to the root level of your domain. Another way is to just add a plugin to your wordpress blog. There are several robot.txt plugins to choose from, some will add a meta robots tag to your wordpress pages.
Note, if you are a building blog, wordpress has the best user interface and is great for fast preformatted content development. However if you are building a website with several different types of content that need function, I would check out Joomla 1.5 and it’s joomla seo extensions.
What CMS platform do you prefer for building the best search engine optimization into your website,Joomla, Drupal or WordPress?
If you work in Joomla CMS , at some point you may want to set up a banner in your website. Below is short video done sometime ago when we had a social small business training community named QuestSocial.com. This community has since been reshaped and re branded as eMediaPlace; a community for Search Marketing and eMedia people to connect.
I had some feedback the other day that suggested it may be a good idea and useful to some to add more training videos to this blog.
If you work in joomla or word press and are have some challenges let me know and I may put up a short training video that addresses those focus areas.
Your comments or remarks will help give suggestions as to future training videos. Thx C
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These are some of my must have tools to be installed for Joomla 1.5. If you are small business building an IN House CMS website or a web developer, using Joomla, I suggest looking at these top Rated tools to get your site optimized, verified and tracked quickly.
These are pretty much straight out of the box with very little configuration or modification necessary.
Developed by Phillip Brown – JoomSEO is a Search Engine Optimization BOT making Joomla content more Search Engine Friendly. JoomSEO dynamically creates meta keywords, meta descriptions, changes the title on the fly, adds heading tags to content titles and more…..
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Developed by Dan Rahmel - Missing Metadata module adds a panel to the Control Panel of the Joomla Administrator interface that lists any published articles that have empty meta description or meta keys fields. Search engines (particularly Google) use the meta description text as the summary text for site-listings displayed in search results. Any articles that fail to include this metadata will suffer…..
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I find I am having a lot of conversations these days about cutting costs to the bone. People are giving up a lot of personal conveniences and little luxuries (like the morning latte) to save money.
I’m finding, with businesses especially, the smaller companies and self employed individuals; want more control over their costs.
Business owners as a rule have a lot to juggle; sales, marketing, purchasing, overhead and more. They need to have a basic working knowledge of how these systems work in order to know whether they are working correctly, or if the person in charge is doing a good job.
One persistent theme though, is increasing sales and maintaining or lowering costs.
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To get a handle on your new marketing program you have two clear options: either try and understand this new culture yourself in order to hire the right Website and Internet Marketing company; Or, work with an in house staff member and train them to mange your web and marketing program.
The tools are now available to manage the output and costs economically in house without having to be a web developer or Internet Marketing expert.
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