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michaelH:

Perfect, Thanks

how do I do that?

Is there any way to have my initial post, that kind of explains what my blog is, say on the front page in #1 position? I already have it “sticky” but also have a video “sticky” and would like that to stay in #2 position. The video way posted just after the initial post so it pops up in #1 position and I guess I could change the post dates but not sure if that’s what I want to do. Also, I am doing a “10 reasons….” series and I would like them to stay in order ie. #1 on top followed by #2, followed by #3, etc instead of the new post taking over top position (#4,#3,#2 and then #1)

samboll:

Well it’s working. Thanks. Just don’t know why??? While wading through the link you gave me, I read something about your pages loading quicker if you start the tag with a number ie. https://www.your domainname/123/postname. And of course having ADHD like I do, I went off to take care of that and changed my customized permalink from /%catagory%/%postname%/ to /%post_id%/%postname%/ and that made the “more…” link work. Very confused but it’s working so I’ll just remain stupid and happy.
Thanks again

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samboll:

Thanks, I’ve just about got it. The only thing hanging me up with the “read me” is that the “read more of this entry” link isn’t live on the home page everything shows up just like I want it to but when I click on the link nothing happens.

Samboll,

seems like you’re the guy I need to talk to. How do I set up the “read more…” option on my blog to shorten the posts (and where do the full posts actually end up?) and, did I read your post correctly, that you don’t use feedburner because wp has their own? I need to set up an rss feed and thought feedburner was the be all end all.

I changed the privacy setting so I should be all set for indexing, right?

iridiax

Thanks, then that will this be the best for getting the site indexed and ranked?

I’ve been reading different threads while I wait for an answer and now I’m really confused. The blog I’m talking about is actually new but classified as being in August’s archive. Does that mean that wp automatically puts a nofollow on it to prevent google from picking up duplicate info and hurting you pr? (just what I read). And I also read that the noindex, nofollow tag from above has something to do with incoming and out going links???

Ok, be forewarned you are dealing with a complete newbie here. I was looking at my code from a post on my blog trying to figure out how to put a “to read more…” command in so I could shorten my posts on the home page.(still need help with that) and saw <meta name=’robots’ content=’noindex,nofollow’ />
in the code. Does that mean that google or whoever is not going to index my site, post or what? If so how do I change it to index and rank the heck out of the site?