For some time, Google has had a way to filter web pages, called Google Section Targeting – using it, pages can emphasize one part over another, and bloggers improve the focus of their site.

This can be important, especially for WordPress bloggers. For example, I once wrote on another blog about a dog ebook. For days afterwards, no matter what I wrote about, the Google ads remained for dog-related items!

On other occasions, I’ve received emails from people asking why they get ads for blogging items, although they never write …

I admit it – I don’t tweet. And although I’ve asked around (and researched), I’ve yet to find a compelling business reason to tweet anytime soon.

To the uninitiated, Twitter is a site where people can post up to 140-character comments on what they are doing. Although that is over simplified, think about a friend wandering around with a phone telling you what he’s up to while he’s doing it, and you get the general idea. People drop in and subscribe to see what’s going on with a particular person …

When I first started on the Internet, websites were done by hand – and changes were a pain.

Enterprising programmer that I was, I tried a number of solutions to make changes easier – server site includes, a Windows template machine I wrote, even batch files in DOS to copy content.

Then in 2004 I tried a program called WordPress. I’d heard about blogs, dismissed it as ‘not for me’, but set it up anyways.

That site, BigBizBlog.com, is still running – and I was hooked.

From a writer’s point …

I received this question recently: you’re transferring your site from one hosting plan to another – is there a problem in search engine rankings?

In my experience, the biggest SEO issue I’ve ever encountered in transferring web hosts is changing the URL of posts – either by changing the blog’s permalink, or the blog’s root address.

I once moved a blog from a \blog\ directory to a root directory – and watched my links disappear from a search engine! Now, older and (somewhat) wiser, I would use redirection entries in …

I could spend words and words leading up to the simple answer to this question:

Yes.

And there’s not a darn thing anyone can do about it.

I was prompted by this when I heard of a product that promised to ‘hide’ WordPress from the search engines. Of course, every product has its hype, and that IS a neat way to advertise it. In fact, I suspect he/she may get sales because of that angle.

However, there’s really no way to hide WordPress, as long as it uses WordPress …