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You may find your posts are raided with unwanted comments. Often comment spam scripts auto-generate comments in the attempt to get approval and links on your pages. By default your comment filter settings with capture any of these comments with links and put them in a queue ready for your to approve or delete them.

How do I know what comments are Spam?

Generally spam has excessive links, is not related to the subject of the blog or appears to be a business not a person or customer.

How do I stop spam in my comments?

There is a spam filter plugin and service available through wordpress that can be activated: Akismet. The first thing to do is register with wordpress. Obtain an API key. Once you have this special key please keep it private and then contact JapanWebStart.jp for advice about how to turn on the spam filtering service provided by wordpress.

Tags are essentially a grouping tool. Blogs include a tag system which allows you to add keywords to a post. Using the same tags on various posts helps group posts together under the tag name. The purpose of tags is to provide easier navigation to articles of similar content. This helps particularly when a blog or site has a lot of content.

Will tags improve my SEO?

It is widely believed that tags are a great way to improve SEO. The reason for this is it helps search engine spiders crawl the site and link related content. In saying this, a blog must have its related content grouped and tagged correctly for this to help. Search engines like google will create and list a single tag as a page on the listing. This is great for getting good results on long tail keywords which have little competition on the search engine. There can be negatives to using tags. For example excessive links in a tag cloud on your site could incur penalties and using huge groups of keywords will weaken the strength of other keywords on the page so it is sometimes not wise to include cloud tags everywhere.

What keywords should I tag?

You should always use keywords that you think you will re-use in the future. The reason being you don’t want a post which uses only one tag and then a tag page with the same content duplicated on it. Duplicate content is not good and therefore try to use the same tag many times. At least 3 times per tag is a good practice. Remember people don’t enter long keyword chains into search engines. 1 – 3 words in length is great for a tag.

How many tags should I use?

Less than 6 tags per post or page is plenty. Remember to relate them to the content in the article.

How often do you read blogs? Perhaps once a day, or maybe even once a week. Blog readers like everyone else develop patterns and get used to your blogging techniques. Keep it consistent and maintain a standard. How much is a good amount? That really depends on your content. For a serious blog related to your business or your field of interest, once a month may be suffice. Once a week of course is far better. There is only so much a reader can digest so don’t over do it. If you can do this, you will notice subscribers jump to read your articles each time you publish them.

So consistent blogging is a fundamental we should all remind ourselves of when maintaining our blog.

Well written titles can mean the difference when search engines list your pages. Good titles for SEO should be legible and communicate the content of the page but also contain the keywords of your choice.

Short titles are good for targeting one keyword and long titles provide more scope. Be careful not to make your titles too long. This can be seen as negative. I like the rule. If it seems unnatural to you, don’t do it. Listing a few important key words in the title is a good SEO technique but keep it targeted and specific. If you write natural and descriptive titles for SEO using specific keywords, you should be fine.

Gone are the days when a nice graphic or movie with a click here to enter button was the norm. It may look nice but has no real way of communicating what the site is about. Most people bounce a site which means they visit the page and if not completely satisfied the content they are looking for is there, they leave. So a good front page is all about good communication of the site’s content and doing it simply and quickly so the general concept of the site can be grasped in a very short time.

So how is it done?

• One very nice way is to link to each of the main areas of your site. Communicate clearly what is in each section of your site using samples of content from each section. This could be an image or a title and a link.
• Write a summary of exactly what it is you want people to know when they visit your site. Sound simple? Well it is but this is often left out of a front page. Within this summary link to other parts of the site.
• Show something dynamic on your front page. News that is updated regularly or recent articles you have written. Give the person viewing your site an excuse to come back.
• Provide an easy way for someone to register with you. Subscription to an email list or a subscription to an RSS feed.

We provide this type of setup on all the sites we do but it is up to you to think about the content of your site and organize it so we can best highlight on your front page.

Recently I designed a site for Spencer Sternberg game audio professional.

The front page communicates exactly what he does in many of the above ways.

• Graphics which communicate the message of sound.
• There is a clear and easy to understand summary of the site in large readable text.
• Samples of his audio are in clear view and can be played on the front page.
• Recent articles and news shows the viewer he is actively using the site.
• There is a subscribe form with a free track to download as incentive.

take a look at the Spencer Sternberg site.

Technology and the way people use the web is always changing so we hope to provide you with up to date insight. There is so much to think about when building a successful web site. What is social media? Why are these new forms of communication so important? How does one get good search engine positioning? What should I write about on my site? How do I build an online community and following?

By reading this blog you can learn how to create a website that allows all these things to work together and maximize results. Subscribe to the feed and stay tuned….

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