Today was a frustrating day that had a happy ending. I had taken advantage of an offer at WebProWorld for a free “search engine optimization report” - oh, that magic word “free” I just had to take advantage. Besides, I was curious.

The report was pretty extensive and impressive considering the price. So then I of course had to go tinkering with my site, and seeing if their fixes would have an effect, which I probably won’t know for awhile.

I revamped my whole index page to optimize for the keyphrase “small business website design”. One of the things I decided to do was to include the most recent five blog article titles on my index, since that would not only give me rotating fresh content on the front door page, but would also allow me to occasionally blog that keyphrase, or part of it. Trouble was that the index page isn’t part of the blog, so I had to go wading through Wordpress docs, the support board and the codex to see what I could see. Well, it can be done. But what a ball buster! If it wasn’t for the great people on the WordPress forum I would have NEVER gotten this done.

It took most of the afternoon, but I now have a newly optimized front door page that hopefully will do a better job for me with the search engines, thanks to the great folks at WebProWorld Forums and the WordPress Support Forum!

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