Custom WordPress Maintenance Note

Recently, I moved my WordPress blog to another hosting plan. And to make sure that no changes was made during the migration process, I set a maintenance notice. Hence, visitors got nothing when they visit my blog. So no more comments being left from the database backup.

Well, the process was plain simple, with plain result. But then I learnt a way to make the notice sounds more like an “apology”. A simple custom page, to show your personalized message to your visitor. This way, people will know that there is nothing wrong with your blog, and that you simply undergoing a maintenance process.

In terms of SEO, this approach is also a good way to keep your index alive.

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Important SEO Sheet

After I take a look, back to my previous posts, I’ve noticed that I’m giving a certain amount of concern towards the SEO. Well, that’s because I’m trying to see if I can really gain a substantial traffic by being well-positioned on Google SERP, instead of the EntreCard advantages.

I haven’t tried it all, but some SEO techniques really demands an abundant effort to get me accustomed to work accordingly. For example, defining the meta-description tag for each post. Well, now that I’m getting used to it, there seems no problem at all. But looking back to the days before, yeah it sure ask too much from me.

But then I stumbled to this self-proclaimed “ordinary guy” post, where he kindly shares an important sheet that helped me to realize some common flaws I did in performing SEO-efforts. Take a peek, see what’s inside, and don’t be surprised if you notice some flaws that you keep on doing again and again – that’s what we all humans are. We make mistakes.