Libel and Defamation Against SOTT, Cass, LKJ, QFG, etc

[Palinurus]

Hi to all!

Having read this thread up to here I really need to vent my admiration to all involved. The skills showed in handling and networking around these problems are quite impressive - to say the least. Very instructive for any newbie and certainly for me. Practice makes perfect and it shows... Many thanks!

 

[Laura]

Is anybody an expert on optimizing wordpress?

 

[RedFox]

Is anybody an expert on optimizing wordpress?

Optimizing it for search engines or server hosting efficiency?
_http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization server efficiency
_http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress search engine optimization

I've never done either before, but have worked with WordPress system a little.
If everyone else is busy, consider me volunteering. Am happy to learn on the job.

 

[Laura]

Is anybody an expert on optimizing wordpress?

Optimizing it for search engines or server hosting efficiency?
_http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization server efficiency
_http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress search engine optimization

I've never done either before, but have worked with WordPress system a little.
If everyone else is busy, consider me volunteering. Am happy to learn on the job.

Great!

I've added you as an admin. I'm thinking we should create a private subforum to discuss issues of building the anti-defamation website.

 

[RedFox]

Is anybody an expert on optimizing wordpress?

Optimizing it for search engines or server hosting efficiency?
_http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization server efficiency
_http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress search engine optimization

I've never done either before, but have worked with WordPress system a little.
If everyone else is busy, consider me volunteering. Am happy to learn on the job.

Great!

I've added you as an admin. I'm thinking we should create a private subforum to discuss issues of building the anti-defamation website.

Sounds like a good idea. I usually keep a log of any work I do, so that others can trace the changes/follow it in the future should they need to. Having somewhere to post the log would be good.

 

[Sirius]

Is anybody an expert on optimizing wordpress?

Well, what exactly do you want to achieve? Any performance issues? If this is the case, perhaps it's because WP communicating with other sites, e.g. RSS feeds, weather function, checking for updates and things like that. They may really slow down loading times.

I know two plugins which are able to optimise WordPress. I have tested both. But I am not sure how great the performance boost will be. For example, they will use advanced cache techniques, header and content compression and the like.

There is also a module for testing site performance in Apache.

 

[Stranger]

Is anybody an expert on optimizing wordpress?

I've used Wordpress for years and experienced with it's options. I wouldn't describe me as an expert, but I know how to optimize a few things, especially regarding search engine efficiency and user-friendly, neat design.
If you need my help I'd be glad to provide my time for that!

What I wrote a few days ago may also help you:

I experienced that Wordpress itself is constructed in a way which gives you an advantage towards average sites regarding the page rank because it is google-optimized by nature. (e.g. because of the clean separation of content and layout) So you only need to optimize it with different tools when you have a lot of time and really need to be on top. There are some things which are to avoid, like using to much tags or create duplicate content.

Take the first entry for example. Google can find the same content on 4 different pages:

http://cassiopaea-cult.com/category/laura-knight-jadczyk/
http://cassiopaea-cult.com/category/cassiopaea/
http://cassiopaea-cult.com/category/cointelpro/
http://cassiopaea-cult.com/2010/10/22/is-cassiopaea-a-cult-and-is-laura-knight-jadczyk-a-psychopath/

There are different plugins available to avoid this, so that google only crawls the real blog entry (not categories, tags, archives, ...) and, therefore, they don't evaluate it as duplicate content what leads to a better listing.

The Google page rank is mainly about how many other websites with similar content link to your site and how good their page rank is, not about continuous updates. But of course, if you have more subpages (blog entries) you will have more readers, there is more to link on to and there are more key words with which your blog can be found.

 

[Sirius]

And regarding SEO:
- As Stranger said, duplicate content is one of the things search engines absolutely don't like. That also includes "/" and "/index.php" and "/folder" and "/folder/", different bases for tags and categories, etc. The latter (same content multiply addressable) is, however, worse. The first thing might even not be a problem. Who knows?
- Meta tag and meta description optimisation becomes less important these days. It may worsen things but not necessarily improve. In most cases it does not have any effect.
- Code-correctness is a necessity.
- Updating and appending content is very important and rewarded by Google (Sott.net is surely a good example, and news pages in general; does Google actually use also Sott.net for finding content used and displayed by Google News???).
- SEO-friendly urls might help a little, but usually Google is clever enough to handle parameter based web pages. It is said that Google has a web script recognition for WP, VB and all other widely-used web software thus making url optimisation redundant. But I would still use it. And WP has this feature build-in.

Hmm, I am wondering if Google does already recognise quotes, i.e. quoted content from other sites which is actually technically feasible and shows in addition that other sites like and appreciate that content, thus Google will probably treat sites, which are not only referred to by links but also quoted, as valuable.

There is a commercial WP-SEO extension available. Though, I think that all this can be done with free plugins the same way. It's only a little bit more work.

EDIT: A very good article about this subject can be found here: _http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/ (notice the SEO optimised url)

 

[Stranger]

Hi Sirius,

"- Code-correctness is a necessity."

Fortunately, Wordpress' code is mostly accurate by nature.


"- Updating and appending content is very important and rewarded by Google (Sott.net is surely a good example, and news pages in general;"

As far as I know this isn't important for the page rank. Regularly updated content improves the listing only indirectly. Look at Wikipedia, it is almost always on top, even with articles who are not updated for month or years. In the end no one knows for sure because the algorythm of the page rank is a google secret. ;)


"SEO-friendly urls might help a little, but usually Google is clever enough to handle parameter based web pages. It is said that Google has a web script recognition for WP, VB and all other widely-used web software thus making url optimisation redundant. But I would still use it. And WP has this feature build-in."

I noticed that SEO-friendly urls help a lot (means: you have only the topic description in the link)! Google seems to like that! Some people say, that google "reads" the first xx latters of an url, which means that it has to be short and must not contain numbers at the beginning. Not to forget, that users prefer to "know" what they are expected to see or read about.


"There is a commercial WP-SEO extension available. Though, I think that all this can be done with free plugins the same way. It's only a little bit more work."

I think the same. If there are a couple of users splitting this work it would be done fast, so that it won't be really much work for everyone.

 

[Sirius]

Hi Stranger,

Fortunately, Wordpress' code is mostly accurate by nature.

What I was referring to and that's the crucial point is the visible output, that is html, css, etc. Clearly, whether the PHP scripts are written well and correctly or not, is basically meaningless for search engines as long as it does not delay load times and result in visible screen warnings. WordPress' Twentyten (revised in v3.1 a little bit, but not much) is well programmed and conforms to XHTML 1.0 (should at least). But, who uses it anyway? Each blogger has his own style, either downloaded somewhere or created from scratch. And that's a potential spot of coding errors.

"- Updating and appending content is very important and rewarded by Google (Sott.net is surely a good example, and news pages in general;"
As far as I know this isn't important for the page rank. Regularly updated content improves the listing only indirectly. Look at Wikipedia, it is almost always on top, even with articles who are not updated for month or years. In the end no one knows for sure because the algorythm of the page rank is a google secret.

This is generally assumed at least. Wikipedia is famous either way and also growing. Yes, how Google exactly works can only be estimated based on its observable behaviour.

Some people say, that google "reads" the first xx latters of an url, which means that it has to be short and must not contain numbers at the beginning.

Interesting, do you have read the article I posted before? There was mentioned a WP plugin which is able to shorten SEO urls. For example: /articles/the-world-is-crazy becomes to /articles/world-crazy. This could really help.

[...] Not to forget, that users prefer to "know" what they are expected to see or read about.

And Ctrl+S becomes fun. ;) You have no longer these ugly urls like showthread.php or viewthread.php (only an example) which will become a problem if a user tries to save more than one page with the same file name. It's the case with Firefox; Opera is cleverer in this regard.

I think the same. If there are a couple of users splitting this work it would be done fast, so that it won't be really much work for everyone.

And the good thing is that once everything is evaluated, tested and implemented, the changes can be carried over to other existing WordPress installations.
I will try out that wpSEO script tomorrow (today). There is a ten day demo version available.

 

[Mikey]

Discussions about technical details of Wordpress

 

[Mikey]

OMG, if my memory serves me correct, we had a new member here on the forum a while ago who linked to this electronic music that he had made! I can't remember his nick right now, but I remember that I checked out one of his youtube links and there was this name: Nitrostirumpa. I remember also that this member was in some ways showing an agenda and being problematic.

Can you find that thread?

Can someone point me to the exact post where Q.Warp.Calx. or Robert posted a link to youtube where the connection to Nitrostirumpa can be seen?

 

[aragorn]

OMG, if my memory serves me correct, we had a new member here on the forum a while ago who linked to this electronic music that he had made! I can't remember his nick right now, but I remember that I checked out one of his youtube links and there was this name: Nitrostirumpa. I remember also that this member was in some ways showing an agenda and being problematic.

Can you find that thread?

Can someone point me to the exact post where Q.Warp.Calx. or Robert posted a link to youtube where the connection to Nitrostirumpa can be seen?

I spent quite a while searching for that post, but I just couldn't find it. Its quite possible that my memory fails me, but I have a vague memory of someone posting about some music that s/he made(electronic) and that this strange name on that YouTube link stayed caught my attention(it could have been on the 'related videos, on the side, dunno). I'll have to search my memory some more.

 

[StrangeCaptain]

OMG, if my memory serves me correct, we had a new member here on the forum a while ago who linked to this electronic music that he had made! I can't remember his nick right now, but I remember that I checked out one of his youtube links and there was this name: Nitrostirumpa. I remember also that this member was in some ways showing an agenda and being problematic.

Can you find that thread?

Can someone point me to the exact post where Q.Warp.Calx. or Robert posted a link to youtube where the connection to Nitrostirumpa can be seen?

I just skimmed over the 20 posts of Q.Warp.Calx and there were 2 youtube links. Neither had anything about Nitrostirumpa though I did lose about 10 IQ points in the process. I will now officially express awe for our moderators here.

 

[RedFox]

OMG, if my memory serves me correct, we had a new member here on the forum a while ago who linked to this electronic music that he had made! I can't remember his nick right now, but I remember that I checked out one of his youtube links and there was this name: Nitrostirumpa. I remember also that this member was in some ways showing an agenda and being problematic.

Can you find that thread?

Can someone point me to the exact post where Q.Warp.Calx. or Robert posted a link to youtube where the connection to Nitrostirumpa can be seen?

I just skimmed over the 20 posts of Q.Warp.Calx and there were 2 youtube links. Neither had anything about Nitrostirumpa though I did lose about 10 IQ points in the process. I will now officially express awe for our moderators here.

This may or may not help... _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6l1y9p0zJk
I'm sure what you are looking for is further back in this thread.....will have a look when I get more time