I took this quiz and even though I only got a B+ and I have a lot to learn I think I am well on the way to being effective when it comes to helping my clients make more money with their websites.
I wrote recently on how I redesigned the web site for Lee Lee’s Valise which was already a much searched for and well trafficked though young website.This was my first and only experience redesigning a website that had sitelinks otherwise known as “breakout” site results in Google.I was worried that the action of recreating the existing pages in a WordPress as a CMS environment would wreck the sitelinks. Actually though, because of the ability to redirect old pages using .htaccess and those old page’s popularity, I needn’t have worried.
It took a few weeks and the help of 2 very important plugins for WordPress:the All in one SEO Pack and the Google XML Sitemap Generator to transfer the powerful juice of the old .htm URLs to the dynamically generated WordPress page URLs.Now the redirected URLs no longer get sitelinks generated by Google but the new WP URLs and more importantly the one for the new online store,do. And instead of just 3 sitelinks, Google now gives us 5!
It’s since gone down to 4 sitelinks but now the most important page with the online store is the first one.Awesome.
Also it got submitted to a new CSS gallery type of site called Cart Craze.
http://cartcraze.com/2008/08/25/lee-lee%E2%80%99s-valise/
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