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03rd Mar 2007

The (falling) buzz log

Erik Gunther from Yahoo! buzz has written an interesting post titled Flailing in February.

Here’s a sampling of a few Buzz decliners in February from our top 500 search terms. Could these topics be in danger of falling off the cultural radar â€” or was February just an off month?

Some of the interesting ones are:

* MySpace Layouts (-14%)
* Angelina Jolie (-11%)
* Pussycat Dolls (-22%)
* Baby Names (-12%)
* Weight Watchers (-33%)
* Carmen Electra (-13%)
* Nintendo Wii (-26%)
* Eva Longoria (-16%)
* MySpace Backgrounds (-32%)

Source: Yahoo! buzz

Technorati Tags: search, yahoo, buzz, trend, statistics

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01st Mar 2007

Search engine friendly WordPress titles

This blog’s title (have a look in the title bar ^) has been seo-ed to the max. Here’s what I put in header.php of my current theme.

<title>
    <?php wp_title($sep = '');?>
    <?php if (is_home()) { bloginfo('description'); } ?>
     - <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>

Robert thinks it’s cool! What about you?

[Edit]

Here’s yet better version from Robert.

<title>
    <?php if (is_home()) { bloginfo('description'); } ?>
    <?php if (is_search()) { _e('Search Results' .
        ' for ' . get_query_var('s')); } ?>
    <?php wp_title($sep = '');?> - <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>

Technorati Tags: seo, wordpress, search engine optimisation, search engine friendly

Posted in Search, Snippets, WordPress | 3 Comments »

08th Feb 2007