If You’re "Blogging" For SEO, You’re Doing it Wrong

Re:If You’re "Blogging" For SEO, You’re Doing it Wrong by lukethomas on Thursday January 23, 2014 @04:19PM (#7111268)

While I certainly agree that have blog.domain.com may not be the best move in terms of SEO, I do think it's important to prioritize users clarify/navigation above SEO benefits.

Next, I'm curious if you have a sitemap file? I see your using the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress, which means typically it lives in /sitemap_index.xml. Clearly you have a custom url setup w/ your app, but I'm questioning whether this is setup? From my past experience, this is the first thing you should do.

Finally, your top navigation links apparently go to specific categories of posts, and I can't help but point out that your title tags could probably be improved (i.e. - http://www.airpair.com/backbone.js). Fortunately since your using the Yoast plugin (good choice btw), you can change this under Titles & Metas -> Post Types.

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Re:If You’re "Blogging" For SEO, You’re Doing it Wrong by aerosmile on Thursday January 23, 2014 @04:24PM (#7111305)

Absolutely, we just migrated 200 articles and are in the process of cleaning up the site. The title tags on archive pages and some other ones are not finished yet, but all top landing pages are all green in Yoast. Sitemap (text and video) is in place. Good observations, thanks for the feedback!

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