WordPress Web Design and SEO Tip

Posted: August 23rd, 2008 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Rants, SEO Tactics, Web Design | No Comments

Here’s a big tip if you plan to use WordPress as a CMS for your website, particularly if you’re working off of a fresh installation of WordPress:

As you might know, I recently redesigned the EndGame Public Relations website, moving it from being html-based to php-based and using WordPress as its content management system (CMS). The site was ranking extremely well for the keywords I targeted, falling in the top five on Google and Yahoo for all of them. Shortly after the redesign, however, I found that every time Google re-indexed my site, a few more of my pages would disappear from the rankings for my keywords. I figured they would return shortly and made a few moves to speed up the process.

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