Wordpress

[Jersey Girl]

whats that code say in english?

[Max]

Looks like the code only allows to index the homepage of the blog... I wouldn't do that. Michel Grey made a video on how to make Wordpress more searchengine friendly - check it out, I think it makes more sense than that code.

http://www.wolf-howl.com/video/make-...gine-friendly/

[gmschmitz]

Sorry in English what it does is it tells the Search Engines to index your home page & your post page to get rid of the duplicate content.

I just changed the code so it indexes the first 2 .index pages.

New Code if you want two pages indexed

<?php wp_head(); 
if((is_home() && ($paged < 3 )) || is_single() || is_page() ){
echo '<meta content="index,follow" name="robots" />';
} else {
echo '<meta content="noindex,follow" name="robots" />';}
?>

You'll see I changed ($paged < 2 )) to ($paged < 3 )) If you wanted 5 pages you would just change that to ($paged < 6 ))

[gmschmitz]

I was writing this as you were posting Max, great link. I have seen this and forgot to mention the more tag option. I use the more tag on most of my post that way the index pages just show some of the post and those pages don't have duplicate content. Pretty much this code does exactly what he was talking about, blocking the robots from your categories page and the acrchive pages. Your posts still get indexed and your home page gets indexed. I just changed the above code to index more of the main pages as long as you use the more tag this is a good idea, if you don't you might not want to.

[Max]

oh I see now..

<?php wp_head(); 
if((is_home() && ($paged < 3 )) || is_single() || is_page() ){
echo '<meta content="index,follow" name="robots" />';
} else {
echo '<meta content="noindex,follow" name="robots" />';}
?>

here is what it says:

If it is a homepage AND page# is less then 3 OR it is a single post OR it is a page - do index and follow
otherwise - noindex, nofollow

[gmschmitz]

You sure do explain it in English a whole lot better than I do. That's really what I meant to say.

[Max]

BTW, I just checked my comments section in the Wordpress and I had 16 spam messages - I wasn't checking it for at least a month, but Akismet cought 5300 in the last 15 days.. so, 16 missed out of 5300 (which is about 0.3%), I think that's pretty good

[glenng]

I am using Akismet for my blog and it does a great job of catching spam comments. Like you Max, I have found a lot of spam comments being caught over the past several days. Someone must be trying to get some comment backlinks and just bombing away.