Is this all you need? You’re header is already using this function for the meta-desc, but maybe you’re homepage is different than your blog main archive. <?php if (is_front_page()) { ?> <meta name=”description” content=”I’ll take swords for 200.” /> <?php } ?> Use is_home() for the blog main archive.
Disallow with no trailing slash is the same as “allow all” – see here – nice find!
Let me start off by saying you can’t edit or control what Google displays in its SERPs. They control the format as well as what gets displayed and will determine when they should or should not display a listing a certain way. Having said that you can do your best to influence what they display. … Read more
Google is finding those pages because you’re linking to them. Most likely this happens when you use the media uploader and hit the “insert into post” button. Unless you tell it otherwise, WP will link to the attachment page intead of the image file. So head to your pages and remove the links to attachment … Read more
Grey links are how it styles visited ones. Priority is mostly for indexing purposes (as is rest of sitemap), I highly doubt is has any impact on search engine ranking.
Check out the documentation for wp_title(), as there are several things you can do to format it how you want. Using the following code will remove the double arrows in the title: <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php wp_title(“”,true); ?></title>
The custom permalink you will most likely want to use is /%postname%/ Which will get the structure that you show above. (mydomain.com/about, mydomain.com/home) If you want to edit the slug, it’s right underneath the title of the post (“Permalink”), click edit.
this is corrent; WordPress generated always an permalink for each post with category and tag; you must dofollow this for the bots on your robots.txt, like Disallow: */?tag=* or Disallow: /category/*/* See also the codex for this topic.
If you use the Redirection plugin, you can just setup a regex redirect from (www.)?olddomain.com to www.newdomain.com (you should be using www., it’s better for SEO as it helps page load time. and that single rule should pretty much do it for you. You can do this same thing in .htaccess, and it would be … Read more
The only way I can think of is to create a theme that contains the exact same structure as your current site. Then you need to go to great lengths to keep WordPress form adding stuff that is intended to make your site more SEO friendly – but you said you don’t want to have … Read more