Ok, Andrew, here’s a post about using TagBuildr to create blog tags. Also, here is the TagBuildr FAQ.

BTW, hope you are enjoying your visit to the States.

On MSN

linkdomain:whoisandrewwee.com -site:whoisandrewwee.com

2,828 results

If this worries you, there are plugins you can use to prevent duplicate content issues. Depending on how your archives are setup, you might lose traffic based on different keyword densities etc.

If you have the time, there are lots of things you can do, but I would stick with longer permalinks, and as someone has already suggested, use 301 redirects if you change things.

Hmm, thanks for your feedback, Andy.

I’d looked through my indexed pages and I guess the post ID labelled ones didn’t seem to stand out too much.

I guess at a later stage when I’m more focused on the SEO aspects, I might revist it.

For the short term, I’d likely focus on the content generation aspect.

This is because if you remove them, it adds a huge MySQL overhead on your server.

The SEO benefit of making this change is minimal as it is only one of 100+ factors Google look at, and search engines are smart enough to tell the difference.

There might be some arguement on a niche site using WordPress as a CMS, if you don’t want your content to have date relevance when listed in the SERPs, but for a blog that you intend to be long-term, I would stick to the longer URLs, even longer than the ones you already had.

Hi Ade,
If you want to go the whole hog, there’s nothing to stop you from adding further keywords to your permalink structure.

you can follow a /keyword/category/post name link structure if you really want to.

For example, http://www.digitalkeiretsu.com/internet-marketing/category/post name.

One thing though, my personal preference is to go with generating good quality content, rather than spend too much time on SEO tweaking.

At the end of the day, you want human traffic that keeps returning to your blog, rather than 1000 hits from the search engines, but don’t come back because of inferior content.

Hi Richard,
Tks for the offer. It’s something to think about.

If I’m keen to take it up, I’ll certainly let you know.

If you haven’t done so already, maybe you might want to blog about your offer and I’d be more than happy to send folks over to your site.

How do you ensure that your “404 File Not Found” error pages are configured to forward to an appropriate page?

Or how do you ensure that your theme’s “page forwarding” configuration is set correctly?

Hi Vlad,
BTW my name is ‘andrew’…

How fast you get re-indexed depends on the next Google bot visit to your site.

If you have access to awstats, it’ll show when the bots last visited.

I think the issue is more of what you’ll do with the pages that have already been indexed, so new visitors, finding you from the search engines, don’t bang into a ‘not found’ page.

I have another site that I may be able to try this on. Also all of my sites have Google Sitemap plugin, do you think this may help Google to re-index the pages quicker?