世論 What Japan Thinks

As I know there’s a lot of WordPress bloggers out there using Optimal Title so that their blog title ends up with the story title before the blog title, because if the full title gets truncated by a search engine, the important story part is less likely to get the chop.

However, if you add into the mix Jerome’s Keywords (a plugin I heartily recommend to anyone), one problem you may soon notice is that if you don’t add a custom tag results page, the title for tag lookups like http://whatjapanthinks.com/tag/plugin ends up as merely the default blog name, which is rather poor from a search engine perspective.
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I’ve installed Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behaviour in the hope of reducing the comment spam – before with just the built-in blacklisting I was having to set all GMail posters to moderated status, for instance, and it was a losing battle tracking the ever-changing splogs. I get about 10 to 20 or so spam comments and trackbacks per day here.

My blog no longer appears on the Google front page when searching for what japan thinks from my home and work PCs at least, although it’s nice to see that I am being correctly syndicated by a couple of news sources, even though nobody asked me before doing it!

Finally, I’m Blog of the Week at Planet Japan Podcast Episode 48, so it seems, but I haven’t had time to listen to it yet! The bit about What Japan Thinks starts at 13 minutes and 34 seconds into the show, so please pay them a visit!