Comments on: Overhaulin’

By: derek

derek — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:30:50 +0000

Thanks Danielle, I appreciate the feedback!

By: ms danielle

ms danielle — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:25:25 +0000

great job! your site looks so sleek now and the orange / grey color scheme always works. bravo

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:53:34 +0000

Your welcome buddy!

(I just read my last comment and it didn’t make much sense - I need sleep!, but I guess you got my point)

By: derek

derek — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:51:11 +0000

Okay, I’ve done a little more reading and search testing (things like site:dereksemmler.com) and I think I will give this plugin a try.

There are far too many posts that are not coming up with a relevant description. Thanks for the dialog Saman!

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:35:02 +0000

Here’s a search of my site, notice the 4-6 links. Those have been edited (I’m working on editing all 345 posts).

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:29:34 +0000

It would change the text to your excerpt (this happens in your feed and WordPress search box too) - there are a ton of configuration options too. I’m very impressed with it, but I haven’t done a before & after comparison….

By: derek

derek — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:23:13 +0000

I need to investigate this plugin more to see what it does, as I don’t recall all of the details from John Chow’s mention of it awhile back.

Just as an example, here is a search for after dugg where my site comes up as the first result out of 2 million.

The title of my post is displayed before the site name and the excerpt is not the first xxxxx words but instead is the relevant piece of text given the search term.

While this is an isolated example, I am just trying to determine the true benefit of this plugin. I’m off to do my research.

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:58:34 +0000

It really can’t hurt!

You can choose to have the plugin use the first xxxxx number of words for descriptions but I decided to go back and edit all of my old post (for better SEO).

The biggest piece of advise I can give is: Make sure you are putting you post’s excerpt in the Optional Excerpt field and not the Description field (which is used for photo uploads)!

By: derek

derek — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:50:53 +0000

I’ll have to give that plugin a try. I’ve actually been pretty pleased with my placement in the search engines on various topics.

On my personal finance site, I recently wrote a post on the Illinois 529 plan change and my rankings have been top 5 out of millions of results. I’ll have to see if All-in-One can help with this site.

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:22:06 +0000

I really like this theme - blue would look good too! Also, you should really install the All-In-One-SE plugin - get those posts to the top of the search engine ranks!