Comments on: The MORE tag, why you should be friends, and making Google love you. http://joeycalveyonline.com/2008/12/22/the-more-tag-why-you-should-be-friends-and-making-google-love-you/ Whatever I want to talk about. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:38:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Aaron http://joeycalveyonline.com/2008/12/22/the-more-tag-why-you-should-be-friends-and-making-google-love-you/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Aaron Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:22:36 +0000 http://joeycalveyonline.com/2008/12/22/the-more-tag-why-you-should-be-friends-and-making-google-love-you/#comment-24 It's actually a 'duplicate content filter', not a penalty. If a search matches a chunk of content that's duplicated on several different pages, Google will try to pick the 'best' one, based on links and trust and all that. It won't show the other four by default, but it doesn't penalize the ranking of the one it does show. (If it did, article syndication would be a very bad idea, and your enemies could hurt you by simply copying your content to lots of junk sites.) But it's probably a good idea to encourage search engines to direct people to your single-post pages, since that's where the comments boxes are, so it saves people clicking. I've been meaning to use the -more- tag, but I keep forgetting. I definitely prefer the look like you've got, where people can see the last few posts on the main page without scrolling way down. I tried letting WP do excerpts automatically, but that does unpleasant things when a post starts with an image or list or anything but plain text. Guess I just need to remember to use the tag. It’s actually a ‘duplicate content filter’, not a penalty. If a search matches a chunk of content that’s duplicated on several different pages, Google will try to pick the ‘best’ one, based on links and trust and all that. It won’t show the other four by default, but it doesn’t penalize the ranking of the one it does show. (If it did, article syndication would be a very bad idea, and your enemies could hurt you by simply copying your content to lots of junk sites.) But it’s probably a good idea to encourage search engines to direct people to your single-post pages, since that’s where the comments boxes are, so it saves people clicking.

I’ve been meaning to use the -more- tag, but I keep forgetting. I definitely prefer the look like you’ve got, where people can see the last few posts on the main page without scrolling way down. I tried letting WP do excerpts automatically, but that does unpleasant things when a post starts with an image or list or anything but plain text. Guess I just need to remember to use the tag.

]]> By: Matt http://joeycalveyonline.com/2008/12/22/the-more-tag-why-you-should-be-friends-and-making-google-love-you/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Matt Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:31:00 +0000 http://joeycalveyonline.com/2008/12/22/the-more-tag-why-you-should-be-friends-and-making-google-love-you/#comment-23 That's an excellent point about duplicate content. I'd never thought much about it like that. I've been using the more tag for space saving on the front page, breaking the article at an appropriate time, and along with that- as a teaser for enticing readers to read the rest. Often I'll do a funny lead in to a story, trying to illicit a laugh and a wtfbbq, such as the one on my latest post (Dancin Capn' Jack. Go read it, you will laugh. Probably.) Other times I'll entice people with a picture, like the post before the most recent one, where somehow I've managed to reference a Sunstreaker\Green Goblin\Dick in a box scenario with a post that's mostly text and telling a story about Walmart refusing to buy me alcohol. Thanks for the info. :D ~Matt Booker That’s an excellent point about duplicate content. I’d never thought much about it like that.

I’ve been using the more tag for space saving on the front page, breaking the article at an appropriate time, and along with that- as a teaser for enticing readers to read the rest.

Often I’ll do a funny lead in to a story, trying to illicit a laugh and a wtfbbq, such as the one on my latest post (Dancin Capn’ Jack. Go read it, you will laugh. Probably.)

Other times I’ll entice people with a picture, like the post before the most recent one, where somehow I’ve managed to reference a Sunstreaker\Green Goblin\Dick in a box scenario with a post that’s mostly text and telling a story about Walmart refusing to buy me alcohol.

Thanks for the info. :D

~Matt Booker

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