Comments on: Sticky Posts

By: Yvonne, My Halal Kitchen

Yvonne, My Halal Kitchen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:45:15 +0000

Any idea why for some reason my posts are all now automatically ’sticky’ but I can’t edit them? They don’t even have the text in the posting box when I want to edit (but they show up on the site). This happened right after I upgraded to WP 2.8.

thanks!

By: butlimous

butlimous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:36:40 +0000

Thanks for the nice post!

By: Blogs and Blogging Deliberations » Blog Archive » How To Avoid Keyword Dulation On Your Blog?

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:00:10 +0000

[...] How to avoid it? There is a simple technique named “sticky post”. How does it work? You can write one, rich keyword post, short enough to always have it on the top of your site. Notice, higher position of the post in the site source always means more attention given to by search engines. Darren Rowse as a example shows that site. [...]

By: Frank Hamm

Frank Hamm — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:14:14 +0000

I just implemented sticky posts on my blog. I have two categories that show up with 2 or 3 recent entries for each category. They only show up in a short bulletlist with the title.

I did this not because of SEO (but I will have a look on this the next days). I did it because I had to change the convention of how permalinks are made. So I inform the readers on every page what happened on the site. And I categorized the most searched post so they show up on every page.

Sticky posts are helpful for up-to-date information that the author regards as useful for his readers. When you have a lot of posts every day / week you avoid that they disappear in the normal navigation.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:14:11 +0000

I think keyword prominence isn´t still important for SEO. With CSS is the appearance of text in the source code pretty random.

As introductionary is a sticky post for new visitors maybe helpful, but I would prefer such information at other positions on the site, not where I would expect the first entry.

By: Cosmin Miclea

Cosmin Miclea — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:09:02 +0000

Yes, I do agree that sticky posts could be of help to readers. as a matter of fact not readers only. I see them as a very useful tool for bloggers. Stephan goes into the SEO aspect of it. I personally don’t give that much of a you know what about SEO. I care more about what I have to offer to my readers. and if I believe a post of mine will be of interest to my readers for a long time, I will absolutely make it stick. right now I have on the top of my pages a “recently updated” list, but as my blog will grow, I will most likely move that to the sidebar and replace it with a version of sticky posts.
cheers to you all!

By: Glen C,

Glen C, — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:22:47 +0000

Users are the most important things so why give them trouble?

By: mark

mark — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:12:40 +0000

Yes, having a sticky is a good thing, n my case at least. That’s what I did on my “blog” and it’s working wonders by getting good ranks in both Google and MSN. :)