What is the best way to publish a post in Wordpress?

[Sueblimely]

I prefer to scroll rather than click on "more" and wait for another pageload for newer entries, so I publish full posts. I use excerpts for archives as I am more likely to want to skim archives rather than read all posts.

That is my own individual browsing style though - finger always poised on the scroll wheel.

[Sue C]

Also, don't forget you can use the robots.txt to prevent indexing of duplicate content. The one you're mostly concerned with is apparently Google, and Googlebots do honor robots.txt.

As an example:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

And because Slurp bugs me (continually crawling old stuff), I've also added one specific to it:
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /archive/category

[vimoh]

Not a very technical answer. But there is a WP plugin called SEO in a Box (or some such name0 that take care of a lot of Title, tag, and description issues.

Do google for it.

[johnhaydon]

Not a very technical answer. But there is a WP plugin called SEO in a Box (or some such name0 that take care of a lot of Title, tag, and description issues.

Do google for it.

I use this plugin (Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By Michael Torbert.
) with the Thesis WordPress them and love it!

[Will]

I also use the robots.txt method and so far have been very happy with it. I have very long file though!

[Lodewijk]

There's a highly configurable plugin for WordPress that focusses on the robots meta tags. It also allows you to edit the robots.txt and .htaccess files from within the admin interface.

You can find it here: http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/...dpress-plugin/

I use it on all my blogs and it works like a charm.

[Simon]

I've definately varied my approach across multiple blogs. I think the best solution is to show the latest post in full on the front page, and then excerpts of the older ones. However, I always try (emphasis on the try) to add a custom excerpt to the post, instead of just relying on WordPress to take the first x words. That way I can tailor the content to the front page and draw people in. I see a good click-through rate if the manually entered excerpt is good enough. I've also written the theme to do it this way.

When it comes to feeds, I always go full feed. I know that I personally find partial feeds infuriating and, in many cases, it has lead to me unsubscribing. So I don't take that risk on my sites.

[richrf]

Hello!

Can anyone help me with the following question ? From the point of view of SEO is it better to publish the entire post on the home page of a WP blog, or is it better to use the "more" feature and publish only the first paragraph or the first two paragraphs on the home page, and then have a link at the end that says : "more on [post title]", which links to the permalink?

I am afraid that if the entire post is published on the home page, then you will have two pages with duplicate content ( home page and permalink ). But on the other hand, for visitors to the blog, it might be better to be able to read the entire post on the home page and not have to follow that link.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! So far I have been publishing only the first or first two paragraphs on the home page, with the link at the bottom ("more on [post title]"), but I am not certain if this is the best way to do it.

Thank you very much for your help,

Robert

Hi Robert,

Since you are asking from the point of view of SEO, there should be enough fresh content on the front page to make a difference to the search engines, when they judge the amount of new content appearing on your home page. Of course, you do not want to overwhelm your visitors with too much new reading content, since most readers do not want to spend too much time on one site (attention span of readers tend to be extremely short).

Again, from an SEO (and advertising) point of view, the content should contain enough keywords, so that the search engine can figure out the subject that you are talking about. The more focus you have on the home page, the easier it is for the search engine.

If you are using a magazine theme, then clearly it is necessary to use teasers. These type of themes (which I may be migrating to), are much more difficult to handle from an SEO perspective.

Also, as others have mentioned, there is the All-in-one SEO Pack plugin for Wordpress that will help suppress duplicates.

Rich