How to make Blogdrive pages rank higher in search engines?

Blogdrive is a great *cough* blogging software, however it isn't the most search engine friendly blog platform around.

New entries or blogs tend to get higher ranking than old post because of Blogdrive's way of handling 404 pages. These new content, either entries or blogs receive a large amount of incoming links from Blogdrive main page and 404 pages. (The number of incoming links is porportional to your page rank.)

As a result, if you regularly updates your blog, your blog will naturally have higher page rank due to these incoming links. (Tip 1)

Other methods, will largely depend on the design and internal HTML coding of your blog.

Tip 2: Insert permalink of important post you made to your sidebar. Since your sidebar appears in every single page of your entire blog, it naturally gives a high number of incoming links. It helps a lot.

Associating keywords to your individual post have a tremendous help of relating to relevant searches. This, however is difficult because Blogdrive system doesn't help in this aspect, at all.

A little hack here and there in the HTML makes a difference.

Such as this blog, each permalink pages have it's Blog Title in the title bar. This is done by forcing individual blog post title into the <title> tag. (Tip 3) This method makes your permalink page rank goes up a significant one PR (PageRank)

Another method, is to link to your individual post with the relevant keyword. Either in your blog, or your friend. Let's consider this as Tip 4.

Tip 5: A newly discovered method by myself, is to insert your blog title into your permalink. Currently, all permalink has the format http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html with no specific keyword in the URL. If we make it look like this:
http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html?Search+Engine+Friendly+BlogDrive

I consider this as another genius idea of mine and I gladly share it with all. Have fun.

Minor WYSIWYG Hyperlink Bug

I noticed that the insert hyperlink button in WYSIWYG Entry Editor is a little buggy. Nothing serious really but I think someone should look into it.

First thing first, I'm not exactly happy that every time I want to insert a link, I'll have to Open A New Popup Window before I can insert the links. This is, on the surface not a big issue because it's easy to understand and it allows us to select whether if we want to open it in a new window or otherwise. But it takes a long time to open a new window, especially in Microsoft Internet Explorer and it will add up to the time if I want to insert many links all the time. I certainly do hope that Blogdrive will just make it a normal javascript prompt function rather than a new popup window.

Secondly the bug, which is why this entry is written. To insert a link, you basically highlight some text and click on the hyperlink button. A popup window will come up and you can just fill in the details for your link. It works fine most of the time.

Most of the time... It doesn't work if your selected text involves a '

Yes, an aprostrohpy. This is evidently a javascript error, Blogdrive ought to add a filter to escape this aprostrophy so that it'll work.

Like I said, nothing major.

Tags: Blogdrive, WYSIWYG, Editor, Hyperlink, Bug, Popup,

Referer.org blocked by Blogdrive?

The last couple of weeks I see an increased amount of contact forms asking for advices on useless and a-waste-of-time stuff. Well, it's rude to say that but when you get questions that can be answered if the question-er knows where to look for answers instead of asking.

Sad. Isn't it?

Don't get me wrong. I actually LOVE to receive contact forms, doesn't everybody? It's always such a merry thing to see a contact form. Besides, it's the best way to know what people are thinking about your site. And it also tells you of any bugs that's been floating around.

One of the messages I received was regarding Azwani. She complains (everybody complains) that the Referer.org script she implemented on her site isn't working. She provided a very good follow up of what she did:
1) contacted Referer.org
2) got a reply from Referer.org
3) contacted Blogdrive.com
4) no reply from Blogdrive.com (not surprised)

Anyway, the responce she get from referer.org is pretty amazing. The team told her that her script, despite being inserted correctly, isn't being indexed by their spider bot. They (Referer.org) claim that Blogdrive.com has filtered the script out of the source code.

Damn, that's one very bold statement to make coming from Referer.org.

But anyway, I took a look at the site and found that it's somewhat true. Their mirror page did not actually showed a filtered version of her blog, rather it's showing a 404 page.

Now, there's only two explanation to this scenario:
1) Referer.org hasn't updated their database with the Azwani's blog, Or,
2) Blogdrive have set the 404 page to turn up when it's being queried by Referer.org

Could it be true? I have no idea but I do know that the BD admin did mention about some third party websites spidering their pages taking up bandwidth. Makes sense but why block them?

Or, I could be entirely wrong because I overlooked certain things. What do you think?

Reference: Referer.org,
Tags: referer.org, blogdrive, javascript, spider, internet, robots,