Long story short — I strongly suggest following the convention of organizing files and directories in a file system. This is what users are already familiar with, and since majority of them aren’t willing to learn, you’re better keeping your URLs this way. Among all other things, friendly URLs have one additional benefit — when an URL address is easy to read, people are more likely to click. For e.g. references left somewhere in the comments section on a popular news site can drive pretty high amounts of new users to your website. More people on a website is what makes a webmaster happy.
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Janet Cho, posing with a fancy arcade game controller
Well, isn’t she pretty? Here’s the i4u gadget model gallery page, that’s where I that picture. The girl is described as Korean model Janet Cho. That’s fine, but when I type that phrase into search engine, not so many photos are showed. First thought – Janet Cho is just an alias. Great, this means I’m unable to find more pictures of her. But wait, they also mentioned that she was chosen Miss Korea 2000!
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I’m starting to think that idea of showing a bunch of full posts on homepage isn’t always the best solution to choose, so I think we can do something with it. The goal is clear – I want to show complete content of newest posts, and only excerpts of older writings. Wordpress engine offers 2 appropriate template tags that provide showing our expected result. You can find them somewhere in your main index template file.
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Some time ago I promised to write about my approach to use of nofollow for blog comments. Personally I do think that all comment links at dofollow blogs have no SEO value, and now I’m gonna clarify my thesis.
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Reddit Alien vs the Digg Shovel Guy
When I started writing this post, I was thinking about listening ten reasons, as you see finally I decided to share only five major ones. Let’s say the rest might be a little bit discussing. You know there’s a opportunity for Reddit fanboy to appear so it will be better if I don’t give him good arguments to start the fight within comment discussion below my writings.
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I’m moving my blog to tumblr, and I thought it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to take a chance to post a conventional Hello World in here. I’ve been thinking of getting rid of all old posting of mine once and for all.
Eventually, I decided to move selected ones to a new home. Since the archive needs a bit of fixin on it, the process may take up to a couple of days.
Stay tuned.
