Tim S
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No worries! That’s what the community is here for. Take care!
Try installing WordPress in a subfolder during development. Then you can update the settings once you are happy and point the site to the folder.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: problems after moving hostI visited the URL you provided, but didn’t find a WordPress website. Is your website built with WordPress?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Webmaster tools> html suggestions >Missing title tagsThere’s a lot of factors dealing with time in SEO. If a page is around for a few years, Google sees it as being far more legitimate than a page that is only days old. Also, it depends on the competition for the keywords. If the keywords you are wanting to rank for are highly competitive, then it will take longer to rank since you’ll have to do more.
Google crawls my site, almost everyday since I update it regularly. The trick is really having a long term SEO strategy as well as short term goals.
Remember, Google issues PageRank at their leisure and there is no rhyme or reason to it. IT could take 3 days or 6 months.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Temporary Folder Missing while uploading themeGood! Thanks for letting us know.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Webmaster tools> html suggestions >Missing title tagsNo, while the title tag is technically a meta tag – Google treats them as such.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812
The biggest factors in SEO are content and backlinks. You want to make sure your have keyword targeted content that is unique. And you want to make sure you have other sites linking to yours (one way links are the best, meaning it’s best not to trade links if at all possible).
Title tags are great since they actually display content, but even if they did affect rankings it would be nominal at best.
The key to remember, is SEO and raking well in the SERPS takes time. If Google recommends you add title tage, by all means do so. But it will not impact your rankings.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: WP as News site CMSYou may want to look at setting up a WordPress network – here’s a link to the the information on it:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Main Email is Configured – How to Add a Second for Second PersonHi Justine,
You do not set up email accounts in WordPress. Email accounts are created on the actual server. You may want to contact your hosting provider if you are unsure of how to do so. I hope this helps!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: problem with prestashopYou may want to try this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/prestashop-integration/
I’ve never had a need to use it, and only found it by searching the plugins. I hope it helps!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Webmaster tools> html suggestions >Missing title tagsMeta tags do not account for PageRank at all. Google and other search engines stopped using Meta tags compeletly since they were widely abused. Meta tags do help Google understans your site better though. Low results in SERPs are normal to start. It takes time and dedication to SEO, to really build a great ranking website. Title tags still are good since they are displayed on the site.
I hope this helps!
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: host transfer wiped me outSo anytime you are migrating a WordPress site, the two most important pieces are the database (since this is where all your content is stored) and the wp-content folder. You need to make sure you installed the same version of WordPress as you were running at GoDaddy.
Then in the new install of WordPress copy over the wp-content folder and import the database. Once you do this, the last step will be to change the database settings in WP-Config.
I hope this helps! You may want to review the moving WordPress codex.
Some one clikc installs limit your capabilities. So you may want to install WordPress manually.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot Run the install script…Your domain is pointed using rackspace nameservers for their cloud service.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with WP installWhen I go to your URL you provided it re-directs to an odd hostgator page. You may want to contact hostgator to find out why it seems to redirect.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Install problem – /wp-admin/install.php not foundYou want to verify a few things. Make sure you’ve uploaded the files to the punlib_html folder and not in a subfolder, if you want WordPress on the main domain. Also, make sure the domain is pointed to your hosting account. I looked around and didnt see an installation of WordPress.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with WordPress in SubdirectoryWhat are your settings for the Site URL and home? Here’s a link, thats the first place I’d start looking.