SEO Web Design with Binh Nguyen » SEO http://www.binh.name Freebies for SEO, Web design, computers, blogging Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:40:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google Search with Options http://www.binh.name/google-search-options/ http://www.binh.name/google-search-options/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 18:45:51 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=195 Now Google Search has options. This is good news for end users and bad news for internet money gurus.

Why am I saying it's good news for end user?

Because end users now can sort the search results based on their preferences. They can sort by any of the following, one or combined:

› All results

  • Videos
  • Forums
  • Reviews

› Any time

  • Recent results
  • Past 24 hours
  • Past week
  • Past year

› Standard results

  • Images from the page
  • More text

› Standard view

  • Related searches
  • Wonder wheel
  • Timeline

Why is it bad for online money makers?

It's harder for you to rank now, because people might search based on time line, and you can't control that. Hopefully people will just do the normal search and your website will rank #1 for the keyword, but what if they search only the last 24 hours and your page is published like ... a year ago?

It can certainly be controllable somehow, but that is the job of big SEO gurus to find out and teach us. I'm a simple SEO Web designer (on site SEO) so this goes beyond my ability.

What is your view?

Related Blogs on Google Search Options

]]> http://www.binh.name/google-search-options/feed/ 0 Position 10 for SEO Web Design http://www.binh.name/position-10-for-seo-web-design/ http://www.binh.name/position-10-for-seo-web-design/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:59:27 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=164 Now Binh.name is being positioned 10 on both main keywords:

  • SEO Web Design, and
  • SEO Web Designer.

In the past it used to have top position for my first name Binh. However, it may be due to Google updating the PR, my site is being listed at position #13 for that.

Mean while, for the same potential reason, my name Binh Nguyen normally placed my site on #3 position, now place it on top position.

If I build links well, I expect in the future my site also have site links like other high PR sites have. However, I'm not seriously doing it yet.

This isn't a good news, because in the past my site got placed at #5 for Seo Web Design for a few days. But since I stopped building links, it also got ranked down.

Mean while, SEO Web Designer is winning the race into position #10 as it previously at position #23.

Here is information about my past evaluation: Binh.Name Ranks 5 for SEO Web Design

Did you notice I had made few more subdomains seo.binh.name, wp.binh.name and webdesign.binh.name? Seems like Google is still not noticing them.

]]> http://www.binh.name/position-10-for-seo-web-design/feed/ 3 Ranks 54 on SEO Web Design http://www.binh.name/ranks-54-on-seo-web-design/ http://www.binh.name/ranks-54-on-seo-web-design/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 14:50:08 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/2008/05/05/rank-54-on-seo-web-design/ I've been targeting SEO Web Design and SEO Web Designer keywords since March 2008. I haven't officially provide any SEO services, yet. However, I do plan to improve my ranking on those keywords and when I do provide services, I can use this as a case study for my success.

Since Binh.name has increased PR from 3 to 4, here are the changes on placements search engine result page:

SEO Web Design is currently at #54. That's an achievement I should be somewhat proud of. When these keywords rank top 10, I will be targeting higher competitive keyword: Search Engine Optimization. I hope not many people are competing with me. If you do, please let me know so I can consider giving up to save my time, thanks.

]]> http://www.binh.name/ranks-54-on-seo-web-design/feed/ 5 Improve PageRank By Buying High PR Domains http://www.binh.name/improve-pagerank-by-buying-high-pr-domains/ http://www.binh.name/improve-pagerank-by-buying-high-pr-domains/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:49:45 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/2008/03/15/improve-pagerank-by-buying-high-pr-domains/ Did anyone successfully improve their site's PageRank using old domain names with higher PageRank? I am doing a case study and I bought a few domains with PR of 5. Hopefully that is white hat SEO and Google won't penalize me for that.

Those domains are not in Google index. So I would like to do a test and link to them from this post to see if within the next few days they will be in Google SERP.

The third domain is ModulinePro.com. I believe this to be Moduline Pro product site, which is now under my ownership.

The second domain is FlickrBuy.com. I made a temporary site Flickr Buy and I hope this one doesn't put me in problem with Flickr.com. Please keep in mind that it has no affiliation with Flickr.com whatsoever.

The third domain is AllGardensGrow.com and so I made a temporary site All Gardens Grow. This site has the potential to be a blog about gardening, or gardening products.

I hope this SEO practice is not against Google's webmaster guideline. Let's see what is the result within few days.

Do you have any SEO tips share about building high PageRank back links?

]]> http://www.binh.name/improve-pagerank-by-buying-high-pr-domains/feed/ 11 Surprised PageRank Update in February 2008 http://www.binh.name/surprised-pagerank-update-feb-2008/ http://www.binh.name/surprised-pagerank-update-feb-2008/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:46:44 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/2008/03/01/surprised-february-pagerank-update/ Did you see the recent PageRank (PR) update? When did it happen? A few days ago my homepage was still at PR 2, now suddently jumped to PR 3 out of thin air without me building any massive amount of links. This is not good. I didn't prepare any new building.

I guess the update just happened because it's end of Febuary in the US, and it's already 1st of March here in Asia. I'm not sure about this, but I'm sure about one thing, my PR increased.

Well, I am so glad to see my homepage is at PR 3. Most my pages and some posts are at PR 3. I still don't know how some post got PR3 for just a few external links to them. Previously, I was so disappointed because most my pages are at PR3 and posts at PR2.

I know it's nothing to brag about because most people have their blog at PR 4+ already. Seriously that's not what I'm bragging about. What I'm really surprise is to see the following blogs are at PR 0 (zero):

I'm mentioning those because I'm their frequent reader. I guess those sites got some sort of Google sandbox or PR penalties for involving in selling text links.

Perhaps Collin (MixedMarketArts.com) is too eager to make money online by telling people some black/gray hat SEO tactics and so his PR got busted. Collin and Simon, if what I assume here is wrong please leave a comment on this post, and forgive me. I really hope you guys can get your PR back and grow bigger because I like your works.

Another surprise is that the following blogs have their PR dropped as well (or remain lower tha their potential) :

  1. Johnchow.com still PR 3 and no where to see in search result for his chosen keyword, even his own name 'John Chow'. Did anyone mention his PR was 4?
  2. Shoemoney.com still PR 5. Unfortunately for Shoe, the words Skills To Pay The Bills didn't return his blog on first position, but I believe he is happy being at first page. I still don't know what Shoemoney's targeted keyword is, or perhaps he is already too happy with the RSS subscribers.

But hey, there my be some error. The PR data centers might be in the progress of updating. The results for those rediculous low PR for those popular blogs might just be result of some lag?

How did I get all this results? If that's the question, then here is the answer: I use SEOBook's SEO for Firefox.

I used many online PR checker and all disappointed me. They worked for a while and then later on when I come back somehow they break up. I hope this SEO for Firefox tool can remain functioning longer because I really love it. It give me the PR for the pages on Google search results straight away so that I don't have to those lengthy URL again and again.

I'm eager to see your answer to my open questions. Especially I love to see you brag about your own PR here. So go ahead and start commenting ;)

]]> http://www.binh.name/surprised-pagerank-update-feb-2008/feed/ 8 Binh.name Positioned 3rd for my Own Name http://www.binh.name/binhname-positioned-3rd-for-my-own-name/ http://www.binh.name/binhname-positioned-3rd-for-my-own-name/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:44:51 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/2008/03/01/binhname-positioned-3rd-for-my-own-name/ It's a very big surprise for me to see my blog is listed at third position for the following keywords:

So what's the secret behind all this? The answer will be given at the end of this post, for now, allow me to keep on bragging.

Of course those keywords mean nothing for money and keyword ranking, because who would ever search for binh or binh nguyen? But that was my experiment and I'm extremely happy with this result.

What sort of experiment? You may ask. For a while, my blog has been on first position for only the following keywords:

That's why I decided to try out something new. Now I also rank 1 for the following keywords:

SEO is so difficult if you don't know. If you do know how, it became much easier. But it costed me 3 months to learn the lesson, the hard way. And yet, I haven't build any targeted keyword to my blog.

Before all this there was one time my blog completly disappeared from the first few pages of Google search results. The reason was duplicated contain. My whole homepage was duplicated to my individual post, including the title and everything else. I got that heavy penalty spanning for weeks even after I fixed the plugin bug. Perhaps I will talk about this in another post.

The secret is what I did to the the anchor text I put on a low PR website (which is also a secret). I randomize the anchor text for the link to my blog a few weeks ago with all the above keywords.

It's just the beginning. I did not actively build links, till now. I am going to try to build more quality links and hope to see the increase in traffic from Google. Let's see how.

]]> http://www.binh.name/binhname-positioned-3rd-for-my-own-name/feed/ 0 How to Leave Comments the Smart Way http://www.binh.name/how-to-leave-comments-the-smart-way/ http://www.binh.name/how-to-leave-comments-the-smart-way/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:00:19 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=73 When you leave comments on a blog post, do you ever concern the benefits beside satisfying your need to say out opinions? Most likely not, and this article may make you change your mind and teach you how to comment the smarter way.

Why comment smartly?

Search engine relies on links to calculate link popularity and hence prioritize pages on the search results. If you have a website or blog you would like to have the search engines to recognize it.

One method of building link popularity is to include your home page address in the comments that you leave on other blogs. However, most of those blogs block search engines from seeing your address.

Fortunately, there are aware and open-minded bloggers who realized the issue. They use some plugin to remove the nofollow tag and open the search engine vision to those links. The links to your website on those blogs are search engine friendly and count toward your link popularity (hence PageRank).

It is white-hat-SEO if you really do participate on the discussions. Otherwise it is black-hat-SEO if you just spam out messages unrelated to the topic written on those blogs.

There are many lists of those blogs on the Internet. However those lists are very limited because you don't know how many blog you have to click before you find the one you like. But that's about to change.

Dofollow Search Engine

CommentHunt is search engine that let you search high PageRank blogs those don't have nofollow tag. Hence you can improve your own link popularity by actively participating in discussions on those blogs.

With this tool, now you can gain the benefit of searching, discussing, and building link popularity at the same time.

I found it by reading Commenthunt helps you build links to increase website traffic. I tried tried it out, it works.

What's next?

I will definitely use this tool to search for the things I need and discuss it on the way. I prefer a stone get 2 birds, to both have passionate discussion and SEO.

Please, don't be too greedy and hold yourself back from participating on nofollow blogs. You gain more benefit from commenting on the same topics of interest, especially related to your website, then dofollow but unrelated topics.

In fact, I like this brilliant idea, and I know how to do it. Wait for my version of similar search engine with more features.

]]> http://www.binh.name/how-to-leave-comments-the-smart-way/feed/ 7 An Introduction to PageRank http://www.binh.name/an-introduction-to-pagerank/ http://www.binh.name/an-introduction-to-pagerank/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:23:26 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=74 Many people who first time see the word PageRank in their life after they have been blogging or building their website for years. It has brought into my attention that most of the pages on the Interenet are using too much technical terms in their articles when explaining PageRank, so here is my simple version of explanation. You will find in this article:

  • What is PageRank?
  • Why do we need PageRank?
  • Building PageRank
  • How to check PageRank

What is PageRank?

Simply put, PageRank is Google ranking measurement for a page's popularity based on how many links pointing to that page. Generally, PageRank for your homepage normally is highest compare to other pages on your site.

Why do we need PageRank?

PageRank helps Google prioritize your page when showing it on the Google Search Result page. Note that it's Google only. For a blog or website builder we need to use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques for build better PageRank to be found by web searchers.

For the same keyword and relevancy, a page on a higher PageRank site would be placed on top of a page with lesser PageRank. That's why SEO people are desperately seeking ways to improve their PageRank.

Everyone needs to have good PageRank for their website, otherwise their pages will never be searched by Google.

Building PageRank

Building PageRank in No-SEO

People who don't know about PageRank depends upon other webmasters and their friend network to increase it naturally. This process is normally very lengthy, but more commonly used. Actually since it's no-SEO, there isn't a technique.

Building PageRank in white-hat-SEO

People who know about PageRank and SEO would actively builds their PageRank by building search engine friendly (SEF) links. There are white-hat SEO people who actively seek out for search engine friendly links.

The ultimate rule of thumb for building PageRank is:

"Put link to your site anywhere, anytime, any reason."

Building PageRank in black-hat-SEO

Many people are too desperate for PageRank. Those such as Internet marketers and affiliates have tendency to go beyond the limit. They would use text link ads and other ad network which offer search engine friendly links and pump up their PageRank to have much more exploited advantages over the other group.

Black-hat-SEO is explicitly prohibited by Google. Google would happily ban a website from their search index for violating this rule, if they find out.

How to check PageRank

After you know a little about PageRank, the next step is to try it out on your own page now. If you have Google Toolbar, then your PageRank is already visible there.

Otherwise you can use some web tools. You will need to copy and paste the URL of the page you need to check. You can use any of the following tools to check it:

Well I was about to put more but they all seem to broke since the time I wrote this: Special Days - PageRank for Google is 0. So BlogFlux is still the number one resource to check your PageRank.

Note: Don't cry yet if you see your page's PageRank is 0. Normally only your homepage have a noticeable PageRank. If your homepage has no PageRank, then cry.

What's Next?

This is only an introduction to PageRank from my own understanding. I will be writing much more about this topic in the upcoming posts. If you can't wait, feel free to read this PageRank by WikiPedia or this Pagerank Explained (very technical though).

This post is made thanks to my friend Haan. She asked me earlier: "Hey Binh, what is PageRank?". Please feel free to comment, everyone.

]]> http://www.binh.name/an-introduction-to-pagerank/feed/ 3 Do You Make These Mistakes With Article Submission? http://www.binh.name/do-you-make-these-mistakes-with-article-submission/ http://www.binh.name/do-you-make-these-mistakes-with-article-submission/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:23:22 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=62 Original content quality article, sound like something normal? Yes, indeed it's too normal for me to recognize the benefit. Look at the snapshot above and tell me, can you believe that article of mine got listed on 1,430 unique external pages?

Introduction

Here is an overview of what happened.

8 months ago I wrote 2 articles and submitted it to EzineArticles.com. Then I forgot about them. 2 months ago I revised the articles and... 1 got rejected, 1 got re-published. I didn't really care. Until... today

The point here is that recently I receive around 20+ page view from this page: Guide - How To Install IIS on Windows XP SP2 Without CD to the page on my site. I was so surprise about it. I abandoned the article a while ago. I renamed it once to Guide: Install IIS on Windows XP SP2 without CD and renamed it's URL also.
The ignorance thing is that previously I renamed the URL and didn't care much. When I realized I got 404 error hits everyday to this page, I started questioning myself.

The investigation

Today I visit EzineArticles.com to investigate the incident. I suspected my article is listed somewhere in a popular section. And really it was. It is listed in this section: "Most Viewed EzineArticles in the Computers-and-Technology:Software Category (90 Days)"

At the time I check, it got this status:

This article has been viewed 2540 time(s).
Article Submitted On: September 15, 2007

Now, it's the time to realize how my reviews.binh.name got PageRank 3 and http://binh.name got PageRank 2. The PR juice from being a popular EzineArticles.com article heat it up. Unfortunately I was too ignorant at that time, putting my <a href="reviews.binh.name">Binh's Reviews</a> in the resource box, not my homepage.

The lesson learned

We should write more quality articles and submit to the popular article directory. Blog is good but it's won't be as good as that.

The only caution is that, being on an article directory mean you have lost that article forever. Why?

  • Visitors are going to EzineArticles.com to read my article instead of going directly to my website. Out of this, only a small portion take the time to quickly look at the original page than leave. They found nothing interesting.
  • The article directory definitely have higher page rank than you. So your article being published on your site will be in the Google supplementary result and never... or barely get clicked through from Google search result page.

How to do it the right way? Remember that you are allowed to have 3 active links in your source box.

  • Write an abstract version of your article, which meet the word count, and submit it instead of your original article.
  • Write highly crafted author bio, which will attract the reader attention, but not a spammy type.
  • Keep a link to your homepage (this definitely is most stable address)
  • Keep a link to your article hosted on your website, a perfect URL that stays for life.
  • If possible keep the 3rd link point to your other site, which you want to promote.
  • THE ULTIMATE (This should be a secret, but i'm sharing with you): Promote your article on the directory as well as the one on your site. This way will make that article become popular and stay in the list spreading through-out the category and give you an overwhelming traffic as well as a share of Google PageRank.

What's next?

Go along with me for the learning journey. I will share with you whatever I learn, even the most secret techniques. Subscribe to my RSS feed and stay tune for updates. I will follow up on the "Major Issue with Common Blog Layout". For now I need some relaxation, playing mahjong with the family.

Update 15/03/2008: I just realized I you may want to learn some Article Tips and Writing Tips from Open Tips.

]]> http://www.binh.name/do-you-make-these-mistakes-with-article-submission/feed/ 2 75 URLs for Blog Update Ping Services http://www.binh.name/75-urls-for-blog-update-ping-services/ http://www.binh.name/75-urls-for-blog-update-ping-services/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:46:09 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=38 Thanks to Simon on his recent 35 RSS Feed Sites To Promote Your Site. I also want to contribute some of my findings. I'm listing here the 74 blog pinging services. I have added those ping URLs into my WordPress Update Services.

Blog Update Services

  1. http://ping.feedburner.com
  2. http://rpc.blogcatalog.com
  3. http://1470.net/api/ping
  4. http://api.feedster.com/ping
  5. http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
  6. http://api.moreover.com/ping
  7. http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
  8. http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
  9. http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
  10. http://bblog.com/ping.php
  11. http://bitacoras.net/ping
  12. http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
  13. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
  14. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
  15. http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
  16. http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
  17. http://coreblog.org/ping/
  18. http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
  19. https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
  20. http://ping.amagle.com/
  21. http://ping.bitacoras.com
  22. http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
  23. http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
  24. http://ping.blo.gs/
  25. http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
  26. http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
  27. http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
  28. http://ping.feedburner.com
  29. http://ping.myblog.jp
  30. http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
  31. http://ping.blogg.de/
  32. http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
  33. http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
  34. http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
  35. http://ping.weblogs.se/
  36. http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
  37. http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
  38. http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
  39. http://rpc.britblog.com/
  40. http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
  41. http://rpc.newsgator.com/
  42. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
  43. http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
  44. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
  45. http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
  46. http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
  47. http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
  48. http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
  49. http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
  50. http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
  51. http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
  52. http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
  53. http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
  54. http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
  55. http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
  56. http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
  57. http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
  58. http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
  59. http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
  60. http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
  61. http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
  62. http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
  63. http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
  64. http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
  65. http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
  66. http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
  67. http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
  68. http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
  69. http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
  70. http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
  71. http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
  72. http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
  73. http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
  74. http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
  75. http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

Wow, that's a long list. So, what is the benefit from getting it on my blog?

Yes, there is a benefit from reading here, because I got a warning for you. The list is very long and, suppose to be attractive. However, I found out that some services have, or may have the following issues associated with it:

  1. Not working anymore
  2. Different language than yours
  3. Requires sign up
  4. Requires backlink prior approval
  5. Requires manual approval

What's Next?

Unfortunately I haven't got the time to go through all of them to check. So for now, I just leave the list as it is, and will post update as I check them up.

Beside, it's my Birthday coming, so I should be preparing for it... wow so many things undone.

]]> http://www.binh.name/75-urls-for-blog-update-ping-services/feed/ 14 Special Days – PageRank for Google is 0 http://www.binh.name/special-days-pagerank-for-google-is-0/ http://www.binh.name/special-days-pagerank-for-google-is-0/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:27:33 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=23 I was checking my PageRank and bump into this mysterious number, 0/10. At first I feel terrified.

"What? How come my PageRanks are all 0? Did Google penalize me for something?"

Popular Tools Cause Surprise

It came to a calm-down when I check the PageRank for www.google.com, which also returned 0/10. Then I check PageRank for yahoo.com, johnchow.com, etc, all returned 0/10. The same results came from the following PageRank checkers:

  1. Check Page Rank
  2. Page Rank - whats my page rank

Here is the result from CheckPageRank.com:

Faulty PageRank from CheckPageRank.com

Here is the result from WhatIsMyPageRank.com

Faulty PageRank from WhatisMyPageRank.com

Then I felt OK, that means Google is doing something at their base that cause all PageRank. Or there maybe a technical breakdown somewhere with their API.

Less Famous Tools Still Functional

Today, I check again and surprisingly found that out of the first tools found while Googling, this BLOGFUX pagerank tool works. Here is the result from their page:

BlogFlux pagerank tool is still functional

SEOOpen's Check Google PageRank tool also is functional, here is their result:

SEOOpen pagerank tool shows correct result

Conclusion

After all the guesses and worries, what really happen here is that there might be some changes made at the Google PageRank API that broke all those tools. Any thoughts?

]]> http://www.binh.name/special-days-pagerank-for-google-is-0/feed/ 1 Top 10 Blog URL Considerations http://www.binh.name/good-url-top-10-structure-design-considerations/ http://www.binh.name/good-url-top-10-structure-design-considerations/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:11:30 +0000 Bình http://www.binh.name/?p=20 It's a common for people to have dilemma during a decision making time. I'm no exception. My blog is up for a week now and I had spent a long time on deciding a few things.

I am asking myself "what is the best URL structure?" I want to achieve this URL structure for my "Binh dot Name" and all the following websites I create. The matter is that, I already spent a month or so thinking about this without getting the final decision. Along with the CMS choice, this URL thing delayed me from publishing my blog for too long until I finally fed up of waiting and decide to "Just do it".

What is a Good URL?

My own justification is that a Good URL have the following characteristics:

  • Independent of other factors because Cool URIs don't change (SEO and human reason);
  • It should be descriptive (we like it, so does SE);
  • It should be easy to type (we like it);
  • It should be memorable (we definitely like it).

Why we need good URL?

  • In SEO point of view, a changed URL is not Google's friendly.
  • In SEO point of view, keyword rich URL is good.
  • In SEO point of view, short but descriptive URI give more value to selected keywords.
  • In SEO point of view, memorable URI doesn't count, but for retaining users, short and memorable URL is best.

Top 10 URL considerations:

  1. For website domain, should it be:
    1. http://binh.name, or
    2. http://binh.name ?
  1. For the main blog, should it be:
    1. The main domain, or
    2. Sub domain http://blog.binh.name, or
    3. Sub directory http://binh.name/blog ?
  1. For category:
    1. http://category.binh.name or
    2. http://binh.name/category ?
  1. The URI should be:
    1. Ugly URI with (? And a query, ex: /?p=123), or
    2. Beautified URI /something/something-smaller?
  1. The beautified URL should have:
    1. With trailing slash (/), or
    2. Without trailing slash ?
  1. Beautified URI options for post:
    1. /%post%, or
    2. /%category%/%post%, or
    3. /archives/%post%, or
    4. /blog/%post%, or
    5. /yyyy/mm/dd/%post% ?
  1. With %post%, should it be:
    1. Post name, or
    2. Post id ?
  1. Beautified URL for category:
    1. /category/%category%, or
    2. /cat/%category%, or
    3. /type/%category%, or
    4. /group/%category%, or
    5. /%category% ?
  1. With %category%, should it be:
    1. Category name, or
    2. Category id ?
  1. The prefix first level options:
    1. Singular (ex: category), or
    2. plural (ex: categories)
  1. Beautified URL for tag:
    1. /tag/%tag%, or
    2. /tags/%tag%

What's Next?

If you are an expert in blogging, or an expert web designer, or just someone who happen to know the best URL structure, then please have your say here. Currently I haven't put up the follow plugin, so as a reward the best commentator I will put your links inside my post without the rel="nofollow". Thank you in advance for participating.

Oh, as a matter of quality, please give a reason why you think your choice is good too. Thanks.

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