Well many of my links go to www.seoidiot.com and half as many go direct to www.seoidiot.co.uk/ so just to see how my good friends at Google handle this nowadays I have 301′d to the blog from root.

Should be interesting (I have a client I need to do this for so best try it here first eh )

Heres a thumbnail of how Google views the links now

I created this new theme for my blog today. It took me a little over 3 hours work so there may be a few things left to fix.

Its nice when you have a few hours free on the weekend to get down to sorting out a few jobs that have been around waiting for me to sort for a while. Thanks to Dave who commented on the theme during the development – I am afraid that as its my own personal blog I don’t bother with the professional thing of making a duplicate blog and testing it before live.

Dave also spotted that I have made a few changes to the way the link juice flows through the site, I will probably do a few more posts on that as it settles in and I tweak it to make best use of where the inbounds head now. Not that anyone should take my advice on SEO – the clues in the name after all

I have also made a few adjustments to the way I handle the links outbound from comments and links in comments. If you comment on a regular basis then your links will now be Followed. One note of caution look carefully at any dofollow plugins you install, I checked the code on one or two and at least one of them was calling home with the urls of each post with followed links on. Crafty stuff that, just a little embarrassed I didn’t think of it as I could have built up a nice little target list of pages to spam!

Let me know what you think of the new theme, all built from scratch ….

P.s. Remember I do create custom wordpress themes for anyone who wants them over on my business site

Addition:

Just been looking at the way the site now loads too and its far far faster than before

When creating sites on a large scale you have to be sure that you dont make life easy for anyone looking to track you down or to ban your entire network. So it is important that you dont leave any footprints.

I have talked with people who change their template on each batch of sites they do – to be honest I never did, I simply changed em once in a while.

What really gets me though is when people use a publically available system and dont even bother to change the default templates it comes with. Some people also make a simple error here too, they see the structure of the site in visual terms rather than in coding terms. They simply look at the css and alter it to give the site a different look. Dont get me wrong you can make sites look completely different using just the css but remember one thing.

THE SPIDER SEES THE CODE NOT THE PAGE

So altering the css and leaving the divs and page structure as is means from the spiders point of view its the same as the default page, stupid move eh?

Even when I am doing wordpress templates I change the layout structure from css to tables so suddenly from a search engines point of view its not a simple wordpress blog its a normal yet unique website.

Think people think!

Edit: THIS IMAGE IS OF ESRUN – HE MADE ME POST IT IN PLACE OF HOMER

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Well I decided to create a new theme for Wordpress that allows you to embed your own custom Youtube Video right in the theme template.

Here is a link to the example and you can pick up the zip file for the theme itself there too!

I know there are many people who will laugh or take the piss out of me here but im old and stuck in my ways. I am now convinced that I really do not like CSS for layout in pages, dont get me wrong I use it all the time for styling the text and the links and even for background images etc but as a replacement for tables in laying out a page CSS blows in my opinion.

Everytime I use it i find myself lost in a pointless battle between negative divs and IE compatability, well sorry sod it I am gonna keep using tables for layout until the compromises go away…