Page Name (Blog link from main site)

Inzvestor · #1 (**permalink**) 25-05-2008, 20:18

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but thought I would post the question to help others in the same boat.

I currently have a blog setup as http://mydomain.com/topicblog

I appear on searches when I search for 'topicblog' but not 'topic blog'

The folder where the wordpress files are stored under is entitled 'topicblog'

Is it just a case of renaming the folder 'topic blog' or is there more to it than that?

My aim is to appear in search results for 'topic blog'

Assistance in performing this change would be appreciated and remuneration offered.
This was a schoolboy error when choosing the site extension to use.
I envisage the job taking less than 10 minutes with the right skillset

IP2 · #2 (**permalink**) 25-05-2008, 21:00

Getting slightly late for me to be thinking constructively, so I will ask what is confusing me. Why do you want to be found under the search term 'Topic Blog'?

Inzvestor · #3 (**permalink**) 25-05-2008, 21:04

For example, if you have an interest in Cheese you might want to search for Cheese Blogs

Say I used http://mydomain.com/cheeseblog - I find that my site comes up in searches for cheeseblog but not cheese blog

Content is still limited on this blog (incidentally not a blog about cheese) and I will be optimising the content to achieve search results but want to give the site the best opportunity possible to achieve this, and don't believe that having /cheeseblog is doing that at present.

IP2 · #4 (**permalink**) 25-05-2008, 21:19

OK, got you! Totally misunderstood you from the first post!

KingPin · #5 (**permalink**) 25-05-2008, 21:45

If you REALLY wanted to you could rename the folder to topic-blog but to be honest that is not going to make much difference.

If you don't already have the All In One SEO Pack for WordPress (if your using WP of course) I recommend getting it.

You will have much more flexibility over your blog and be able to change the title/descrption about at will.

Play about with your title incorporating "topic blog" and of course back links that contain "topic blog".

KP

Inzvestor · #6 (**permalink**) 25-05-2008, 22:12

Change made and All In One SEO Pack updated - will wait 24 hours and check for the revised results

The folder is now topic-blog and links from my site are to /topic-blog

The change was easier than I expected

davewilkinson · #7 (**permalink**) 26-05-2008, 13:11

What you've done so far is bang-on. In addition, you just need my 2-step SEO guide:

1. Write more content.
2. Build more links.

That should sort the search engines out.

Inzvestor · #8 (**permalink**) 26-05-2008, 13:56

Oh, the blog is not the one listed in my profile

But thanks anyway
This other one has more content going up every day

Inzvestor · #9 (**permalink**) 28-05-2008, 18:35

Righto, I found that I was performing well in SE's for http://www.mydomain.com/cheesblog even after changing to /cheese-blog and new links were getting picked up under /cheeseblog

I have reverted back to http://www.mydomain.com/cheesblog and will use clever SEO to get the topics chosen, ignoring the domain on this occasion.