Silkenhut’s World
Pinoy blogging experiences. Includes blogging tips, technical blogging guides, wordpress, and SEO.
One week has passed (filler paragraph)…
Time flies so fast! I can’t believe that it has already been a week since this site has been online. For the past week I have been busy tweaking the blog technically that it affected my posts. As you can see in my archives, most of my posts are technical in nature. These are actually my experiences in trying to make this blog look good, optimized and have lots of features. Let us move on to the main purpose of this post.
What is your blog’s purpose?
Ever since I started this blog, I have been asked by people on what will I be focusing on? Now that I think about it, what should I be focusing on? People might conclude that this blog will be about technical stuffs since most of the articles are about technical stuffs. However, I don’t think that is the case. I was thinking that this blog will be focusing on my experiences in the blogging world. Read the rest of this entry »
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Since I am very thankful to the people who visit, comment and just read my blog, I would like to give some love. Aside from saying, I love you all (oh yeah!), you get a reward! The reward is this, the top commentators plug-in.
These are the settings that I have set in the options.
Although since my blog is fairly new, I don’t know if it can benefit the blogs of the top commentators. Oh well, now if only I can make it work… -_-
Edit: Yeah I made it work… Based on what I have done, it does not work if I just used a text widget for it so I edited the template manually.
Continue for a tip on how to maximize your link using this plug-in
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To WWW or not to WWW, which would you prefer for your domain?
Just to share some information, your site can be reached via two addresses. For example, this blog can be reached by using:
However, it is best to use only one address for your blog. This will be your preferred domain.
Why do I need to have a preferred domain?
For people, it does not matter if you have two addresses. However, for search engines it does.
Search engines are not able to conclude that http://silkenhut.com and http://www.silkenhut.com are just one and the same. Search engines will treat these address as two separate sites. Check out these google queries for silkenhut.com.
As you can see, these addresses are supposed to lead to the same site but Mr. Google only knows about one of them.
If you are concerned about your search engine rankings/results, page rank and other similar search engine stuffs, then you should only have one address. Having two address divides your site. You can also be flagged for duplicate content since http://yourdomain/yeah.html will be considered a duplicate for http://www.yourdomain.com/yeah.html.
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If you are on free hosting such as wordpress.com or blogspot, you don’t need to do this since they have already made this file for you.
However, if you are on paid hosting, you need to make a robots.txt file.
What is this robots.txt file?
I have limited knowledge about this so let me allow wikipedia to define what’s robots.txt.
The robots exclusion standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is, otherwise, publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites, or by webmasters to proofread source code. (Wikipedia)
Is this important?
Yes. Search engines use robots to crawl your sites. That means, it browses your files in your hosting. The robot crawls every bit of your site, public and private files all together. That will pose a big security risk for you since confidential data will be made available by the robots and be placed into the search engines. Imagine your password files can be found on google searches!
People visit your website through your web pages. What they are seeing are a result of html code that has been parsed/processed by your browser. Robots don’t have browser so they just crawl the files one by one. You have to restrict their access to your files. Robots should be limited only the files that you allow them to crawl.
So how do you limit these robots? By creating a robots.txt file.
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I bought my hosting from philhosting . I was amazed by their fast service because I paid for the package at about 1:20pm and the account was activated after three hours. I was very excited for this was my first web hosting account and my first domain.
I quickly logged into my account using the secured cpanel. Although secured cpanel is a bit slower than the normal log-in, the added security is worth it. After logging in, I saw the interface of cpanel and I was at a lost of what I should do. So many buttons to click and learn. Good thing there was a cpanel documentation which I was able to read and learn about the features of cpanel. If you are new to cpanel (just like me), I would suggest to try everything out. I mean, click all the buttons and learn what that specific button does. It can be helpful in the future.
Now, the next thing to do was to upload my local wordpress blog to my account so that it can go live. I thought that it was just an easy task. However, it took me a few hours before I was able to make this blog online. I was making a lot of mistakes due to not being sure of what I was doing. In total, I made five attempts which I’m going to share and describe. Read the rest of this entry »
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