Spent most of the day hacking away at clean-up on Webomatica, mostly due to the frustrations of seeing Google not index the site properly. I chalk it up to the fact that I moved a bunch of content from static HTML pages to dynamically driven WordPress ones, and not really understanding the nature of “SEF” (search engine friendly) links.

Basically, to make a long story short, when I first threw this blog up, all the links were of the “id?=3″ nature, and Google indexed them. Then I switched to SEF links where the title of the post is in the name, and the Google robots seemed understandably confused by this.

To top it off, during my clean-up, I found that the photo gallery pages were never updated to reflect the new structure, so they were still pointing to the numerical format and not the SEF versions. However, they still worked, so I never caught them when checking for broken links.

Another more complex issue is the idea that Google doesn’t like to index pages with duplicate content, and in WordPress there is in fact duplicate content if you consider the actual post pages and the archive pages. I’ve tried to fix this problem with different meta tags both in content and in telling the robots which pages to index.

Needless to say, I think I have the more or less solved, and only time will tell.

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