Since this is the SEO section I decided to post this here. I just finally finished my SEO tutorial series, do you guys mind telling me what you think about it? Is there anything you don't like? I practically covered everything. http://www.thegermz.com/category/tutorials/seo
I'm assuming you want an honest opinion. This is more of a blog SEO tutorial if anything, and won't benefit a non-blog user that much. You leave out "alot" of things SEO wise related to blogs and don't even go into the duplicate content issues Wordpress can have. If this is your first tutorial nice job, it's a start in the right direction. If you want to review an "excellent" tutorial related to Wordpress I recommend viewing Dan Schulz's Word Press SEO Checklist. This is an example of how small and simple a tutorial, reference, quick guide can be and still be very informational.
Thank you, I did mention the duplicate content in the robots.txt part. And yes it is my first tutorial. Yes it is more focused on blogs rather than all websites. But do you think it's a good starter guide for like someone who knows nothing about SEO?
You mention, but don't explain "what" they need block to prevent duplicate content, remember someone reading might have no clue what robots.txt is or even how Wordpress creates duplicate content. The who point of a tutorial is to explain everything in detail. Additionally.... Robots.txt will not stop a web robot that doesn't follow that standard, Actually, the issue with robots.txt is it can contain sensitive URLs to backend areas; like admin, members, etc. However, it doesn't stop web robots if they don't respect the robots.txt standard, and trust me 99.9% of the ones create for spammers won't.
I'll make sure to edit that out then thank you. Oh ok, thanks I'll go a little more in to detail on that then. Thank you VERY much! Aw thanks I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much I spent a lot of time editing it, I wonder how long it took the guy who made it to make it.
It's also very long-winded. I tried reading the whole thing but lost interest before I finished reading the first part. Don't be cute or clever - be clear, concise, direct and to the point. People don't read when they're online - they skim. Coming from you, that's very high praise indeed. Especially considering how I didn't sit down and take the time to write that post - it was a knee-jerk spur of the moment kind of thing.
That is not what I said. What I said was that people want to find what they're looking for, they want it right now, and they don't want to be played around with, talked down to, belittled, treated like children, or have to read the Encyclopedia Galactica to get it.
i got your point dan, but i have added my view to that comment i go through many blogs and article and this what i conclude, almost 80% were the same theme of articles. i didn't find anything new or unique. if you search for seo techniques blog than everything will remain same. i mean to say is, article must provide something new if we want to increase the traffic.
Yeah I'll be adding new content to it as I learn more stuff about SEO, I got that tip from another forum. Thank you .
Sometimes thats the best way to write content, just let it flow naturally out with putting any real "thought" into what your writing. Of course you should have general knowledge of the subject first hand.