Thanks a lot Li

This blog now appears on the blogroll of SearchMarketingGurus thanks to the fantastic Li Evans although personally i think shes just after getting me to buy the drinks at SES

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As seen on Search Marketing Gurus… Or how to get me to buy beer…..

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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

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301 to a sub directory – an interesting experiment

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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

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A new custom wordpress theme – from start to finish in 3 hours

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