Tech Talk
On Wednesday I attended a meeting of Scottish Developers with a talk given by Michael Briggs on SEO.
It was quite interesting. Some of the information I knew already. Some I did not. The stuff I already knew I have put into place on blogs/sites etc. The stuff I learned I plan to prioritise and work into sites in the near future. He pointed out some of the things squirrelled away in Googles Webmaster Tools. I had previously used it for adding site to directory and adding a sitemap. Some of the stuff I hadn’t noticed is very cool though.
I also realised something about ping servers so added a load to the blog and am away to publish the first post to loads of them. Lets see what happens.
Disclaimer: one of the things he talked about were valid mark up and his site does not have this (probably his blog theme to be fair, something I have wrestled with).
Aye – the markup issue on my site is being addressed. Its part of my house keeping – probably being building little things here and there and never got round to fixing theme – especially in my wordpress theme!
If you want some stuff about pinging have at the list at
and add the ping for google blogsearch onto it -it’s listed in the comments. But I just saw that this post was in google already so you may have it installed just now!
Glad you enjoyed the talk.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:54 amMichael
Cool, I will take I look. I had found
https://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services
Which separated lists into ones which worked and ones which didn’t seem to any more so will cross check it.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pm