(12-31-2011, 07:10 AM)DAMINK™ Wrote: SEO is critical IMHO.
I run several blogs mate.
What i consider important is this.
SEO, content, backlinks
Always start with good SEO.
Then work content while building backlinks.
Thats how i do it and it works quite well.
Sure Google now does not hold as much weight to backlinks as they did but its still important long term i believe.
The only issue that I know of about Theme 2 for SEO is the slight duplicate content issue. The first two posts are displayed fully on the home page and also in their own page (when you click on the title to view that post and that post only). That kind of duplicate content you want to get rid of. That's why people often use excerpts on their home page so they don't have the same content in multiple places.
I can't quite figure out how to do that on this theme. The thing is, it's only the first two posts that display the full content on the home page. There are other ones below them which are just excerpts. I'm hoping that by posting frequently, this won't actually become an issue because it will cycle through the posts being displayed in full as I write more content.
I think I'll stick with Theme 2 anyway.
Everything else from there will just be building quality backlinks and doing a little advertisement work. Hopefully my domain and content will take over from there on in.