I've been blogging on and off about my experiences and progress with dieting over on my diet blog. One of the things that I've also been doing is sharing recipes for the various things I've been eating. In order to display them "sanely" I opted for a Wordpress plugin called "Easy Recipe" mainly for the display. I wasn't as concerned with the rich snippets and microformat … [Read more...] about Automatically Generating Rich Snippets For Recipes
Search engine optimization
Traffic Levels Returning After A Fix
It's been a week since I fixed the issue on a site that had been infected by some malware. As I mentioned in my previous post, the malware was stealing the site's search engine traffic. And the graphs show very clearly how things have improved in only a few days: And if you look at that over the course of a week it's even clearer Hopefully (fingers crossed) there … [Read more...] about Traffic Levels Returning After A Fix
Movable Type To WordPress Permalink Oddness
For some bizarre reason the Wordpress importer changes the post names from "thing-other-thing" to "thing_other_thing" ie. replacing the dash with an underscore.The simplest way to fix it is to run a bit of SQL directly on the database:update wp_posts set post_name = replace(post_name,'_','-');Thanks to the person who provided the solution here … [Read more...] about Movable Type To WordPress Permalink Oddness
Blekko And ScoutJet Revealed
A post on Mashable earlier this evening revealed the launch of a new search engine - Blekko.I've no idea how well Blekko will do, but its method of displaying results is quite novel:But forget the display of the results for a moment. Let's have a quick look at how you search.In Google and most other search engines you simply shove in a keyword (or two) and hit enter.If you're a … [Read more...] about Blekko And ScoutJet Revealed
Google Rapid Inclusion Tool?
Image via Wikipedia Getting your site listed in Google is one thing, getting traffic to your site is another.What's the difference?Well basically Google pretty much lists every single webpage on the planet, so getting listed or included isn't really that big a deal.What you really want is people to go to your site and buy your product or service (or take whatever action you … [Read more...] about Google Rapid Inclusion Tool?