{"id":2172,"date":"2008-07-12T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T07:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:27:07","slug":"mastering-the-art-of-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/mastering-the-art-of-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering the art of SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read loads about SEO now&#8230;and decided to have a go at making this site better optimised. It was, for a while, number one in Google when you type &#8220;Bargh&#8221;, but dropped after I made comments about a fraud company. The particular blog page was removed from Google and I have a sneaky suspicion several other pages were affected because the site fell rapidly to page two.<\/p>\n<p>So lets attempt to get it back to the top where it belongs.\u00c2\u00a0 I made sure every page has a page title, that all the photos have alt tags, that the pages are validated, that there are enough keywords to make it really clear that this site is about me.\u00c2\u00a0 I created a site Map, told Google to look at this, removed the forum that had loads of spam id&#8217;s indexed, and then waited expecting to see an improvement. In less than 24 hours the site dropped to page 7 and has stayed there since! I&#8217;ve done somthing wrong and haven&#8217;t a clue, but when searching for Bargh you cannot get any more bargh than me or my personal web site so I want to be reinstated on the first page! Now!&#8230;. Please \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read loads about SEO now&#8230;and decided to have a go at making this site better optimised. It was, for a while, number one in Google when you type &#8220;Bargh&#8221;, but dropped after I made comments about a fraud company. The particular blog page was removed from Google and I have a sneaky suspicion several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1300],"tags":[1331,894,1679,1741,2085,2249],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","tag-alt-tags","tag-bargh","tag-google","tag-indexed","tag-seo","tag-validation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}