I am trying to clean up my duplicate WordPress content here at ecrosstexas.com.
Today I updated my .htacess file to redirect www.ecrosstexas.com to ecrosstexas.com as WWW is deprectiated. I have been using just ecrosstexas.com for some time now as my preferred URL. Of course, I could have used this plugin instead of hacking my .htacess file. A word of caution Cool URIs don’t change.
In order to answer this question, we must first recall the definition of WWW:
World Wide Web:
n. Abbr. WWW
1) The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2) n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.
Last week I updated my template’s header.php robots meta tag. Now <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> is only in the <head> of my main blog page, individual entries, and pages. My archives (monthly, categories, etc) all get <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />. Details can be found in How to Make a WordPress Blog Duplicate Content Safe.
Rats, I spoke too soon. Upon closer inspection it appears that my technorati troubles are still not solved.
Hooray! It looks like the upgrade to WordPress 2.1 and use of the static front page has solved my technorati problems.
Seeing WordPress 2.1 is nearing beta, I decided to upgrade ecrosstexas today. I figured why continue to tweak the site with an outdated version.
Static Front Page
My favorite feature allows you to control the “front page” of your site. Glad to see this is finally baked into the core. I am using this to serve the Howdy Y’all notice at http://ecrosstexas.com and the texas blog at http://ecrosstexas.com/blog.
I wonder if this will help at all with my technorati issue?
It appears that my choice to display my most recent entry from “the texas blog” is causing massive problems. Technorati seems to think that my home page (compared to this the texas blog) is its own blog and now most searches in technorati reference the wrong site!
Is there any way to correct this data in Technorati? Any advice?
[Update 1:45pm, still wrong after home page change]
To clarify,
my home page is at http://ecrosstexas.com and
my blog the texas blog resides at http://ecrosstexas.com/blog.
I just don’t understand.
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