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You may have noticed a change :-)
Wordpress is amazing. Powerful yet simple to use. Similar to my favourite CMS, Etomite.
I am taking a gamble but I am really excited. After ranking in the top 2 on Google for ‘web advice’ for some time now I have decided to abandon my keyword rankings for the sake of my users. Now I am following the Golden Rule.
If you do not know the Golden Rule I am sorry, I shall describe it in detail later, but for now I have a mountain of work to do. Rewriting sections, converting wiki’s and other 3rd party systems back to Etomite. My site is now returning to it’s roots in order ‘cut the chaff from the wheat’. (I think that is the phrase?)
But it is a risk. The vast majority of my traffic came from obscure searches, not my target keywords. The recent changes in Google have seen our search results improve, but for SEO’s some popular techniques have been caught up on.
How much the PR of 5 affected those search results is hard to tell. Will all the obscure listings disappear dramatically reducing my traffic. Does it actually matter?
Without going into too much detail I saw my site with new eyes. Doctor - heal thyself.
In the meantime, you will have to put up with jumping templates. I hope to have this all done by Saturday. We shall see, we shall see.
Paul
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May 11th, 2007 at 12:42 am
I suppose I am admitting that the site I had a vision for was well on it’s way but far too big a job for just me. Part of the revelation were my own words. I reread a few of my own articles and realised I had gone too far. The site did a great job for Google rankings, but a terrible job at what it was actually supposed to do. Try it for yourself if you own a website. It was question 1 (of all things) of Judging Your Own Website. See if you can find it?