Comments on: Pimp Up Your WordPress Guru Status- Trimming Those Long Titled Posts with Slugs http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: A kind of handy Wordpress tip… « Learning Games http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-25305 A kind of handy Wordpress tip… « Learning Games Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:46:23 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-25305 [...] kind of handy Wordpress tip… February 16th, 2007 Courtesy of Alan Levine. A nice tip to generate shorter URLs for your Wordpress blog posts. Now to find out about the other [...] [...] kind of handy Wordpress tip… February 16th, 2007 Courtesy of Alan Levine. A nice tip to generate shorter URLs for your Wordpress blog posts. Now to find out about the other [...]

]]> By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24162 Alan Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:32:53 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24162 Point taken, J... perhaps. I should not have cast the n00b assertion, as you assert there is a value to long urls. But that too hinges if one's sole purpose is to seek higher Google Rank, something which has never been a goal or a motivation here. And I have nothing to really judge in terms if a long URL with the same keywords as in the long TITLE tag (which my posts still maintain) are a google rank booster. Maybe they are. Isn;t the recipe a secret locked away with the one for extra crispy chicken and Coca-cola? But I do appreciate the counter-perspective, so readers, feel free to make long urls or short ones without a tag of being a blogging newly come. Point taken, J… perhaps. I should not have cast the n00b assertion, as you assert there is a value to long urls.

But that too hinges if one’s sole purpose is to seek higher Google Rank, something which has never been a goal or a motivation here. And I have nothing to really judge in terms if a long URL with the same keywords as in the long TITLE tag (which my posts still maintain) are a google rank booster. Maybe they are. Isn;t the recipe a secret locked away with the one for extra crispy chicken and Coca-cola?

But I do appreciate the counter-perspective, so readers, feel free to make long urls or short ones without a tag of being a blogging newly come.

]]> By: J Wynia http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24151 J Wynia Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:51:47 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24151 Unfortunately, you also reduce your keyword power in Google with your new permalink. I'm not on my first trip around the block. I've done plenty of working inside the Wordpress engine, including the slug portions. I've got mine set to full titles *on purpose* based on the tangible evidence I have for what it did for my Google page ranking. Now, one can argue back and forth as to whether that's worth it or not, but it's not necessarily an indicator of "noob" status that someone chooses to use full titles as part of the permalink setup. Unfortunately, you also reduce your keyword power in Google with your new permalink. I’m not on my first trip around the block. I’ve done plenty of working inside the Wordpress engine, including the slug portions.

I’ve got mine set to full titles *on purpose* based on the tangible evidence I have for what it did for my Google page ranking.

Now, one can argue back and forth as to whether that’s worth it or not, but it’s not necessarily an indicator of “noob” status that someone chooses to use full titles as part of the permalink setup.

]]> By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24088 Alan Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:51:20 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24088 Hogpen- info on the NMC conference is at: http://www.nmc.org/events/2007spring_online_conf/ The conference is hosted in a Learningtimes community (http://www.learningtime.net); presentations are done live with audio, slides, and participants chat in an Elluminate classroom. Daniel-- I was not targeting at all ;-) If I was any good, I'd write a plugin that makes shorter slugs. Hogpen- info on the NMC conference is at:
http://www.nmc.org/events/2007spring_online_conf/

The conference is hosted in a Learningtimes community (http://www.learningtime.net); presentations are done live with audio, slides, and participants chat in an Elluminate classroom.

Daniel– I was not targeting at all ;-) If I was any good, I’d write a plugin that makes shorter slugs.

]]> By: Daniel Livingstone http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24087 Daniel Livingstone Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:29:41 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24087 I'm so vain, I think that post is about me. Thanks for the tip :-) Will start using it right away! I’m so vain, I think that post is about me. Thanks for the tip :-)
Will start using it right away!

]]> By: Hogpen http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24083 Hogpen Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:54:14 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24083 Thanks for the slugs-tip. I just started a blog @ hogpen.blogspot.com. Still working with it. It might take awhile. But I want to know more about the internet conference your setting up, the whens and hows of it. Thanks for the slugs-tip. I just started a blog @ hogpen.blogspot.com. Still working with it. It might take awhile. But I want to know more about the internet conference your setting up, the whens and hows of it.

]]> By: Gardner http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24038 Gardner Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:41:15 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/15/slugs/#comment-24038 I just got a question about slugs the other day. I blush to admit I'd never given this issue any thought. But I can larn! Thanks. Oh,and L33t rules. I just got a question about slugs the other day. I blush to admit I’d never given this issue any thought. But I can larn! Thanks.

Oh,and L33t rules.

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