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Follow or No Follow

by mistyone
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I would like some advice please, I am creating a meta tag for this site:

http://www.imarriedafatbitch.com

and I am given the choice for robots:

index,follow
index,nofollow
noindex,follow
noindex,nofollow

I am a total newb and I am not able to make a decision about what to choose because I have no idea what they are about.

Could someone make a suggestion

Cheers
Misty
#follow
  • Profile picture of the author Texas_Guns
    Now that is one great example of a blog not only
    with a memorable domain name - it's one that
    will create a buzz AND get people clicking on
    your link just to see what you're doing.

    Nice job.

    As to your question - HECK YES... you want
    search engines to index and "do follow", that
    is if you want search engines to find you.

    The "do follow" will get more bloggers
    commenting on your site because the link
    to their website will be "followed" by
    search engines.

    I actually wrote about this topic on my
    blog:
    http://www.whackedoutmarketing.com/9...-and-then-some

    Mods, if it's not OK to post that here,
    please let me know and I will delete.

    Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author mistyone
    Thanks guys, it is a very new site and I am doing my very best to make it search engine friendly

    I have so many ideas and I have been buying up all sorts of treats for my visitors. I wish there were more of me (and NO I'm not the fat bitch! LOL)to get all the tasks done! "SO MUCH TO DO AND SO LITTLE TIME TO DO IT" and getting carried away reading threads on this site doesn't help!!!

    Go check out the thread about showing your picture, it's great to read. Everyone is having a ball
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    • Profile picture of the author mistyone
      I've made my meta tag, now I can't find the file I upload it too

      As I have said I am a newbie and I can't find in my word press file the home page to be able to edit the code into it

      What folder would I find the home page in. I am in my hosting account, file manager and I have opened the fat bitch folder, but because there are so many files and folders I am stumped! I have looked at the title in 'view source' but it doesn't help me to know which folder to look in for that file.

      Any help much appreciated

      Cheers
      Misty
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      • Profile picture of the author Texas_Guns
        Misty,

        One little tip: You will go crazy trying to learn and figure
        out how to get everything set up as a newbie.

        I've been online since 1999 and marketing online since
        2003 or so, and when it comes to technical stuff, I am
        clueless... so I hire someone to do it.

        When I first tried setting up my first blog a few years
        back, I thought it would be easy. A week later of
        a full-time effort, I nearly tossed my computer out
        the window.

        It's WAAAAAY worth hiring someone and paying them
        $50 to $100 to get all of the set-up completed for
        you so you don't have to worry about it - and free
        up your time to focus on the content.

        Not to mention, there will be 1302 more things that
        will pop up that will become a TOTAL time sucker!
        Be careful!

        Maybe offer a Warrior $50 or something to get it
        all set up for you. I'm sure someone would be
        glad to help!
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        • Profile picture of the author mistyone
          Hi Texas-Guns

          Thanks for the advice. I have hired someone and still can ask this person to help but it is ongoing, my need for help and the money has done nothing but pour out and less than trickle back in, well actually it's more like being in a drought! so I decided I had to try and do these things for myself

          But I do agree it is far better to pay someone to do the things I can't, to leave me free to do the things I can, but at the moment I have to try and do it myself, I have no other option, so can anyone help me with this??????


          Cheers
          Misty
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          • Profile picture of the author e-mail2u
            Misty,

            It's a wordpress blog, if so just login go to settings and click on the privacy tab. There should be two options one which blocks search engines the other does not.

            This should solve your problem...
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            • Profile picture of the author mistyone
              Hi e-mail2u

              Are you suggesting that I don't need to use meta tags for search engine optimisation? It is so confusing, knowing what to do Some people say you have to optimise your page for SEO others say you don't need to with Wordpress, what do you do ??????

              Cheers
              Misty
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            • Profile picture of the author mistyone
              Originally Posted by e-mail2u View Post

              Misty,

              It's a wordpress blog, if so just login go to settings and click on the privacy tab. There should be two options one which blocks search engines the other does not.

              This should solve your problem...
              I have just been into the privacy settings and the selection made there is for my blog to be seen by search engines but I thought that it needed to have meta tags as well but if you think it doesn't then I won't add the script I created As I keep saying I am a NEWBIE drrrr

              Cheers
              Misty
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              • Profile picture of the author e-mail2u
                hi Misty,

                When you select the no follow in the privacy settings for search engine the wordpress script inserts the tags for you. To see this just click on edit and view source and the tags will be there.

                As for seo i highly recommend the all in one seo,

                WordPress › All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugins

                It will add extra features to your posting so you can add specific tags just for that posting etc..

                Geoff
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