Search engine optimization

September 12th, 2007

Working it out

A little background. My blog, like many is currently set by default to display 10 posts on the page, I like this configuration, as I considered from the perspective of a random viewer there would be enough interesting content accessible from a quick scroll to grab the attention. (a few pics, a bit of text)

What I didn’t realize until recently was how search engines work and pages are indexed. In fact I still don’t, but I have made a couple of interesting discoveries.

Where to begin, I guess to get it straight I’ll start with my first web site Central12.

If I type central12 into google search, I will get a link to a post I made when starting this blog concerning the fate of the central12 site.

http://www.oikofugic.com/blog/archives/2006/12/19/central12-moved/

I am obviously happy to find this link here, and consider my efforts to achieve this once so illusive goal worth while.

The search request central12 brings up the link to the specific post I made about central12 as it should.
However if I do a google search for the following,
‘It’s a plugin mashup’, which is the title of a recent post, the search engine brings a link to my blog, oikofugic.com/blog, rather than to

http://www.oikofugic.com/blog/archives/2007/08/12/its-a-plugin-mashup/

which would obviously be preferable.

This I believe is the case because the first post has dropped off the front page, therefore it’s existence in cyber space is independent of the site index and thus gets crawled individually?

So I don’t know if there is a way around this little problem, apart from setting the blog to display only one post on the front page.

I have not noticed this until recently, as have only now begun to explore the realms of analytics.
I initially thought the situation might have arisen out of my dabbling in the code, changing the permalink structure in conjunction with a trackback spam blocker - experimenting with various other plugins. I know not..
Any Ideas out there.

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