The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: SEO

  • Web Site Statistics for June 2006

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    Dan

    You love me, you really love me! No really, you do. Well actually you love WordPress and Godaddy, at least that is what my AWStats is telling me. In the month of may “WordPress Godaddy” was the most popular search phrase that lead you to either the How to setup…

  • Web Site Statistics for April 2006

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    Dan

    The idano.net web site went “official” with my initial post on March 24th. I got a whole 50 unique visits that month. Well in the month of April things were a whole lot different. According to AWStats on my web server the idano.net web site received 606 unique visitors and…

  • Google is Weird

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    Dan

    The more I research and see the results first hand, I am convinced – Google is weird. Today I checked, again, to see if my newer pages (or any pages knowing Google) are showing up. Well now, the old index.asp pages are now showing up in Google results even though…

  • Further tests to fix Techorati ping issue

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    Dan

    As you may have noticed in my last few posts, I have been having issue with my post showing up in Technorati correctly. This post is to try and see if a change that just made is going to work. I will post my findings of what caused this when…

  • Trouble with Technorati Links

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    Dan

    I am putting this post up just to reference my last few post because they have not been listing correctly on Technorati. Here are the posts – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks – Where I talk about what you need to do to get permalinks working on Godaddy. How to setup…

  • How to setup WordPress MySQL and Permalinks info on Godaddy Hosting

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    Dan

    I am posting a followup to yesterday’s post – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks in which I spoke of what you need to enable permalinks on Godaddy hosting. From that post I got an email asking about how to setup the wp-config.php file with the correct MySQL info. Here are my…

  • WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks

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    Dan

    UPDATED 4/29/2009 – My original conclusion about Permalinks not working with Godaddy hosting has a new conclusion. Zac Vineyard noted below that it can take up to an hour to update the .htaccess file on the server so that the Permalinks work. I have personally confirmed that this does indeed…

  • Round Rock Web Design Blog # 6 on Google

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    Dan

    I did a quick check this morning on Google for the Phrase “Round Rock Web Design” and low and behold – the blog I setup on wordpress.com is # 6 in Google results. The coolest thing about it is that I did not put quotes “” around the phrase so…

  • WordPress Permalink Post Names for SEO

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    Dan

    In my post “themastersfamily.net – Page Rank 4” – I mentioned that I had changed the permalink structure for SEO purposes to the following – websitename.com/postname-postid.htm I did this based on the theory that Google puts more emphasis of pages from the root of the site then a page in…