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Wine Cabinets page not being crawled

Despite updating the content on my wine cabinets page on VatRats I noticed this morning that it hasn’t been crawled by google since 24th October.

On close inspection I noticed I hadn’t updated the content on a number of other pages and had 4 or 5 virtually blank pages, I also noticed I wasn’t linking to the wine cabinets page from the wine articles section.

This is mainly due to the fact I quickly set the structure of Vat Rats up back in October but then got distracted and never added the actual content.

Hopefully, over the next few days I will add the content, interlink the pages a bit more and see if I can get google crawling the site a bit more frequently.

Advantages of Hosting a Blog on Your Own Website

Advantages of Hosting a Blog on Your Own Website
By Robin Dale

The real benefit of hosting a blog and maintaining it has been a quick way to spread your business across the internet audiences. It has been proved by the search engine marketing specialists and bloggers in the past few years that a blog can benefits your website or business in very effective ways.

When you decide to host a blog on your website, the first question that comes up is where to setup a blog on your own website or separately. Each one has its own advantages that will help your website.

Where to Host Your Blog on Own Website or Separately?

There are two ways you can host your blog, either by creating an account on the blog platforms like Blogger or WordPress or simply installing your own blog software on your own website. Hosting a blog as a sub-domain of your own website looks like a professional approach and often preferred by those who want to boost their website ranking on search engines using blog as a tool.

Search engine ranking benefits

Setting up the blog in as a sub-domain on your existing website also benefits to your websites search engine ranking. Any new content that is added to your blog will be treated as new content part of your main website. Every new blog posts that you create are easily and quickly indexed than regular web pages. It thus helps promote better indexing and visibility of your main website, if the blog is hosted on the same domain name.

Backlinks benefits

If you spend some time and efforts on writing quality contents on your blog, you can easily attract the quality backlinks using those articles. If you host your blog on your main domain then all back-links will benefit your main domain. If your blog is on an external domain then back-links will not be directly passed on to your main website. However, you will still get the benefits if you are able to pull the PR and links from your separately hosted blog to your main website by cross linking. But, in order to get benefits via cross linking from your externally hosted blog it will need to be successful.

Brand targeting for business owners

Some business company’s or website owners can choose to start a blog on a completely new domain name. This can help if you wish to differentiate between the branding of your website and that of your blog. If the blog you are setting up is not directly related to the content on your main website, then you may not wish to combine the two on the same domain name.

If you wish to target on enforcing a collective brand for your company rather than creating a new brand for your blog, installing a blog as a part of your main website will help. If a blog is installed in a sub folder of your existing website, the blog URL will include your primary domain name in the address bar and appear as a cohesive entity.

Technical resources

If you are setting up a blog on your main website or domain name, you will require a certain level of technical skills in order to install the blog and add the database. If you are starting a blog using one of the free blog platforms then no software installation is required and a blog can be set up in a few easy steps.

Cost benefits

Another common reason for setting up an external blog outside of your main company website is the possibility for using one of the many available free online blog hosting services such as Blogger or Word Press. Most leading social networking websites such as Facebook also allow users to set up their own blog using their website platform. These services are usually free whereas setting up a blog on your main website or private domain name will require web hosting space and technical infrastructure.

So, decide your own where to host your blog, if it’s similar to your website and hosting it to boost your search engine rankings then definitely host it as a sub-domain of your own website.

Robin Dale is the webmaster for the SEO|SEM|UK Web Hosting at http://www.teeky.org, offering useful & quality articles and news about Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing, Search engine marketing, Dedicated Hosting, hosting tips & UK Web Hosting.

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Who are you sharing your Twitter and WordPress passwords with when using sharethis?

As you will see I use sharethis on this blog.

It’s a nice little gadget, but the security implications amaze me.

2 simple demonstration:

Click on the sharethis button on the bottom of this page, then click on Twitter, up pops a box asking you for your Twitter username and Twitter password.

Now close the box, click on sharethis again, then click on WordPress. Again a popup box, this time asking for your wordpress password and username.

The same happens for blogger and typPd.

Basically, if you use any of these you are sending your username and password for each account. The big question id, how are you sending it and more importantly, who are you sending it to (or via)

Now I’m not saying sharethis are doing anything wrong, but do you feel safe not knowing who you are sharing your passwords and usernames with.

Another far more serious issue in my opinion is, How can you even be sure you are sending the info via Sharethis? Anyone could knock up a fake sharethis system and be harvesting usernames and passwords, think about that, how would you like it if someone knew your WordPress username and password?

Top 10 Mobile Phones Goes HandHeld

I’ve had a web page up for about 3 or 4 years now displaying my list of Top 10 Mobile phones which I don’t really do anything with apart from updating the list every now and then.

Checking in my stats recently I have noticed an increasing number of visitors are using mobile phones and handheld devices when viewing the page so with this in mind I have just created a new version of my top 10 mobile phones page using an alternative stylesheet, a slightly different layout and no images.

Hopefully, google won’t flag it as duplicate content, as it isn’t there to deceive in any way but is there to make it more convenient for users of handheld devices and mobile phones.

Spot the Volleyball Win a Supercar

To those of you fed up of studying photos of grubby footballers when doing your spot the ball competitions we have some great news!

Best Of The Best have just introduced a great new game which not only gives you the opportunity to win a supercar but also allows you to legitimately ogle the beach beauties playing Volleyball in Southern California.

Thats right! Best of the best have launced a spot the volleyball competition offering an Audi R8, Ferrari F430, Aston Martin DB9 or choice of other supercars as the main prize.

Word of advice when playing though, Don’t get distracted.

Disability News

Whilst updating my WordPress blogs after  the recent scare about security issues I came across an old one which I set up a couple of years ago for Disability News but then forgot all about.

It was located in a directory on one of my wheelchair ramps sites, it only consisted of about 2 pages, 3 or 4 posts and was only in the original WordPress them, not adapted in anyway.

As I was updating WordPress anyway, I set up a new theme then re-skinned it to look nicer and be more search engine friendly.

Once I had it st up better I made 3 or 4 posts and was surprised to see they were all indexed by Google within minutes.

Over the coming weeks I will be adding more disability related content and try to keep it regularly updated.

Upgraded directory listings

I sorted through the listings in one of my directory sites yesterday and created new pages which group together the businesses which have opted for the upgraded directory listings.

I initially had them all on one page Graded listings but have now divided them up in to ,

Bronze Listings :: Silver Listings :: Gold Listings

Mortgage Brokers in Dorset

I’ve been having one of those problems we have when optimising every now and then where an older page on a site is outranking a newer page for the target phrase.

I set up a page for mortgage brokers in Dorset for someone a couple of years ago but since then they have changed the name they trade under. With this in mind, we set up a new page targetting mortgage brokers in Poole but left the old pager up as well.

Jump forward a couple of months and the old page is still top 3 for mortgage brokers in Dorset, but no sign of the new page.

It looks like the old problem of an old established page blocking a new page appearing for the same phrase.

In the past when this happens I either deoptimise the old page or delete it completely in the hope the new page will replace it in the SERPs, but this time because the old page is for the same business I have the option of simply replacing the old content with the new, the only problem with this is that the old name is used in the URL.

Business categories in business directory

Whilst creating my new Warwickshire Business Directory site I decided to try and limit it to approx 200 business categories and create an individual page for each category. This causes the problem of all categories needing linking together. To ovecome this a little I also created an alphabetical list and created 26 new pages like so;

A : B : C : D : E : F : G : H : I : J : K : L : M : N : O : P : Q : R : S : T : U : V : W : X : Y : Z

I then placed each category in the suitable page and will eventualy add the alphabetical navigation menu on to all 200 category pages too.