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Something is wrong, the Google Search Result from my blog looks bad, don’t laugh please :D

Posted by Daniel - 4,922 Views

I was checking my blog’s pages which are already indexed on the Google Search and I spotted some of the items there are look really-really bad. It gets me to realize that I am not doing the best yet in optimizing this blog for search engines. Then I asked myself “Do I exactly know how to get a better result in SEO?“, the answer is “No, I have idea at all…” but it won’t stop me from doing search and research to get the best result in SEO with an appealing look without ignoring that I am also building this blog for human like you.

Well, I guess I am talking too much, right? :D OK, lets start with Google Search. As I said before that most of the items shown there are looking bad. Means they’re not appealing enough to persuade the searchers to click it. Following are the reasons why I said they’re not appealing enough:

1) SOME USELESS PAGES ARE ALSO INDEXED. What I mean by “useless” is: pages with no informative content in them, pages aren’t fulfilling the searchers need. From their point-of-view those pages are useless. They are pages such as wp-login.php and wp-register.php.

done: Adding the following META Tag to the header section of those page and other similar pages will prevent the crawler from indexing the pages:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

2) DEFAULT WORDPRESS PERMALINK STRUCTURE IS STILL SHOWN THERE. I have no idea why several pages with URL structure like “www.averagecoder.net/page/3/” can be indexed there. As long as I can remember, from the first second I set the WordPress Privacy setting and robots.txt file to “Open For Crawler” I already set the permalink structure like the current one.

done: I think disallowing it from robots.txt by using the line below will do the job:

Disallow: /page/*

3) ALL OF MY INDEXED PDF FILES ARE HAVING MY BLOG NAME AS THE TITLE. Every post on this blog can be converted into PDF by clicking the link at the end of the post, that’s why I have PDF files indexed there. But, instead of using the post title, Google fetch the header on the PDF as the search item’s title. It’s quite reasonable since all of my PDF files has the same title on the header (my blog name) and this is not good.

done: Using the post title as the header of the PDF. This will requires me to edit the ContuttoPDF Plugin code.

4) THE PAGE’S TITLE AND THE DESCRIPTION DOESN’T REALLY MATCH. Sometimes Google Bot didn’t fetch the appropriate post content to be set as the description. I am not really sure why it could happened but I guess it’s in the way I choose the keywords - I can’t deny that my keywords prediction and the placement are terrible. So, it’s reasonable if the bot fetch the comment instead of the post content or the description meta tag because it couldn’t find the keyword entered by the searcher in the post content or the meta tag.

todo: be more careful with keyword prediction, more research is mandatory I guess and make sure the chosen keywords are well placed within the post content and description meta tag.

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