Comments on: EzSEO Newsletter # 240

By: flyfishingcolorado

flyfishingcolorado — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:03:19 +0000

5/24

Andy,

Thanks for the post on static vs. dynamic pages. It cleared up a lot of confusion for me on converting a static html site to wordpress. I read your newsletters regularly but somehow the conversion process was not clear to me until this post.

Marshall,Editor
http://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:09 +0000

Hi Andy,

I have the same or similiar questions as Jeremy, Andy (Singapore Online Florish) and Franklin. I am very interested in Google -1st but would like to see your reply to the aforementioned individuals questions.

Thanking you in advance for a prompt reply.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:37:49 +0000

Daniel – more and more third parties are creating imaginative templates with “Studiopress Style” homepages. ALternatively you could learn a little PHP and hack the home.php template of your chosen template so that it appears more like Studiopress. The reason why it is so good form a visitor and a search engine point of view is that you can have links to different sections on your site (by category) all appearing on your homepage in short excerpts. This can make it easier for visitors to find stuff, as well as increase links to important pages on your site.

I was thinking about creating a tutorial to show people how to do this, and wondered whether there would be a market for it.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:35:25 +0000

Mark – the problem I would have with titling newsletters differently is that each newsletter usually contains 4-6 sections. I could not create a short “title” for the newsletter and include everything. It is far better to rely on search engines to find the information. You can come to this blog and use its search facility, or if you have the stuff on your computer, use your computers built in search (or a third party search tool like Google’s desktop search). I haven’t tested this, but I would also think that delivery and opening rates would be lower if I changed the title as people would not know what the email was.

By: Mark Wright

Mark Wright — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:05:21 +0000

Hi Andy,

As always, I enjoy reading and looking forward to your weekly info. However, there is one thing that I really wish you did differently and that is, since I have archived loads and loads of your letters to refer back to for various reasons, and to reread certain tutorials and tips, it’s a big hassle to have to go through so many to find the one or ones I wish to reread because you only title your newsletters by numbers.

Now for instance the handful of other expert marketers whom I also receive valuable info on a weekly basis, they ALL title their emails with what the content is about, thus making it sooooooo much easier to refer back to, as it only takes looking at the title and then I know what that particular newsletter or email was about, rather than having to open and closing scores and scores of your newsletters to hopefully find the one that I needed to get certain info. Would you ever consider switching to another format to make referencing your letters more easy and manageable ? Thanks! Mark