missing the seo boat
September 6th, 2006
I use ATG often enough to know that they had a fairly brilliant tool a few years ago, but they seem to have lost their motivation to innovate and replaced it with a big need to productize and seemingly confuse potential buyers. One of the big issues I see from a user/developer standpoint is the lack of support material available online. ATG has much information available on their website, but what frustrates me is that it’s hidden from search engines like google because you are required to login to view it.
The result of this is two-fold. Developers have no real resources to help solve issues, and customers have nowhere to look for relevant information. I suppose this is more of an issue for developers than customers, but for a company that pioneered JSP pages and developed a spring like architecture over 6 years ago, it seems as though the technical brilliance at the company was held back by the business.
Case in point: If you search for “ATG 2006.3″ in google, most of the top 10 results are me working through installation issues for MySQL and OSX. Which gives me great insight into google search engine optimization methods, but leaves me with an empty feeling when faced with solving complicated ATG development issues.
September 6th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Found ya!
I may have to steal your WordPress theme
And funny enough, just over the weekend when i was attempting to install ATG, i did run into your threads on google.
November 29th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page.
I have several hundred 600+ inbound links.
I have pinged Technorati manually and used pingoat as well as pingomatic every time I add a new blog.
There is plenty of content, about 30 articles.
What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog?
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Other than permalinks that use your post title in the url, relevant words in your title (this isn’t easy) and having people link to those posts, there isn’t much else to do. How well do your blog posts showup in technorati searches, or google searches?