When browsing the Gallery 2 installation on the A1 Imports Gallery I noticed that the default implementation was to use H2 as the headings! This is horrible, pointless, and not very well thought out. I realize that its not the job of the Gallery 2 engineers but they went far enough to make it an H2 so why not just make it an H1? Anyway the problem has been solved and we’ll see what type of results we get. Be sure to use them on your site, but use them wisely. A good rule of thumb is to only have one per page that is very specific to the content. Over-bloating your page with these tags will definitely send the wrong message to Googlebot.

I have had so many sites over the years and Im really sick of it! I finally have one site that I am happy with, serves its purpose, and is easily updatable. Although I am mostly a Java engineer, PHP is where I came from. There’s a right tool for ever job and this site is no exception. Wordpress is a great little app and suits its job well. It even loosely follows a pseudo type of tiles MVC system.

Just in case I get bored of the look I can always modify the view via CSS. Although this site doesnt validate due to Wordpress, its strict XHTML. Although tables are great for tabular data and I still believe in them this site is a table-less design.

In order to get the cleanest and best ranking possible, always redirect your subdomains (the ones not in use) to www! I cant stress this enough. When Google comes by and sees that http://site.com and http://www.site.com are the same it thinks that this is duplicate content, which it is! I just implemented this today for my friends site A1 Imports Autoworks. Go ahead, try it. Here is the rewrite for Apache:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^a1importsautoworks\.com(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.a1importsautoworks.com/$1 [L,R=301]