maandag 22 oktober 2007

Yuwie really needs to improve!

One way of getting more people to Yuwie is of course by ranking in the search engines. This is a very important factor, since it can direct interested people to your blog entries and thus giving you more pageviews.
The thing is however, that Yuwie has been programmed very badly from a Search Engine Optimization point of view.

A few examples:

  • your profile link redirects to a url with your account number. Both get indexed however resulting in duplicate content. Yuwie should create a 301 redirect and exclude the other url from indexing.
  • the urls to your blog entries are to complicated. Consider this example:
    http://www.yuwie.com/blog/entry.asp?id=64364&eid=79656&t=How%20many%20friends%20have%20you%20got?
    the bad thing is that it contains 3 variables and spaces. Yuwie should use ModRewrite to create a url like this:
    http://www.yuwie.com/blog/64364/How_many_friends_have_you_got/

    At this moment there are only 6140 blog entries indexed by Google. Considering the number of users on Yuwie who are all writing multiple blog entries this is really a small percentage of the total of blog entries. IE. At this moment Google hasn't indexed any of my blog entries!

  • there are no Metatags; the title tag for a blog entry is just yuwie.com and the keywords tag is empty. The description tag is not even present.

These are things I just noticed while glancing over the pages; when looking more carefully there are probably lot's of other things to improve.
In order for Yuwie to get really successfull and generate a lot of pageviews, this really needs to improve!!
Please leave your opinion in the comments, and let's try to get the attention
of Y Guy for this matter.

Y Guy, if you're reading this; I would be glad to help you out improving Yuwie for the search engines....

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