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This is so crazy. Let's keep working on it. I hope that together we can come up with a way to handle this for people in the future. Thanks for reaching out to me. Very interesting stuff.

Bump on this! Trying to contact journalists on Twitter. Quite hard actually, I'm going to try and call some on Tuesday (bank holiday weekend) and perhaps try some direct marketing techniques. Got some free samples off www.popupmailers.co.uk. If it works out I'm going purchase.

Thanks Takeshi, Had a look on fiverr for half and hour or so and found some good ones. Got a final list and going to pick one. Heres the list if anyones interested: http://fiverr.com/aevidrev/make-a-logo-reveal-video-on-the-blue-sky-very-proffesional-and-neat http://fiverr.com/nugzdesignz/create-this-particle-logo-animation-for-your-company http://fiverr.com/bestintrovideo/make-a-logo-reveal-intro-video-with-micro-particles-effect-hd-professional--2 http://fiverr.com/lolzaar/create-a-simple-yet-effective-video-introduction http://fiverr.com/aetricks/create-logo-streaklet-after-effects-intro-video-for-you-in http://fiverr.com/georgekelly/create-a-fantastic-podcast-stinger-style-intro http://fiverr.com/ul3m8_/make-your-own-customized-youtube-video-intro http://fiverr.com/redfoxmedia/do-a-speed-sketch-animation-of-your-logo-or-text http://fiverr.com/samolxis/create-a-nice-and-clean-logo-reaveal http://fiverr.com/tatangatronic/create-a-elegant-clean-and-high-quality-video-intro-for-your-logo-or-text

Asking about the ideal configuration for a robots.txt file for WordPress is opening a huge can of worms There's plenty of discussion and disagreement about exactly what's best, but a lot of it depends on the actual configuration and goals of your own website. That's too long a discussion to get into here, but below is what I can recommend as a pretty basic, failsafe version that should work for most sites: Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Disallow: /wp-content/cache/ Disallow: /wp-content/themes/ Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml I always prefer to explicitly declare the location of my site map, even if it's in the default location. There are other directives you can include, but they depend more on how you have handled other aspects of your website - e.g. trackbacks, comments and search results pages as well as feeds. This is where the list can get grey, as there are multiple ways to accomplish this, depending how your site is optimised, but here's a representative example. Disallow: /trackback/ Disallow: /feed/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /category// Disallow: /trackback/ Disallow: /feed/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /? Disallow: /? Sorry I can't be more specific on the above example, but it's where things really come down to how you're managing your specific site, and are a much bigger discussion. A web search for "best WordPress robots.txt file" will certainly show you the range of opinions on this. The key thing to remember with a robots.txt file is that it does not cause blocked URLs to be removed from the index, it only stops the crawlers from traversing those pages. It's designed to help the crawlers spend their time on the pages that you have declared useful, instead of wasting their time on pages that are more administrative in nature. A crawler has a limited amount of time to spend on your site, and you want it to spend that time looking at the valuable pages, not the backend. Paul

Thanks for your suggestions guys!

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Hey, I like Drupal, but I tend to use it as a base for much heavier bespoke projects rather than as a starting point for something small like a personal blog. Each to their own I guess.

Thanks for all your replies guys I will try those two out, might end up using a combination as you all seem to be doing that.

Wow, thanks. Beyond the call of duty that! Yes I did know, I recently hired a trainee in-house SEO who is talking with our web design company and sorting this out at the moment. There is a lot to do! Though I'm asking him to concentrate on a different site which he just finished building. Thanks again.

Jane Copland did a fantastic talk on 'Golden Links' at LinkLove London this year. Her advice in this situation, like Host1 suggested, is to just email and ask, what do you have to lose? As EGOL said, you could check if they ever link out, to see if you have a hope, if not, still ask!

If, as Collin says, you are not in to deep you could change them and 301 the old to the new and then going forward you could just use the new format.

Thanks for the response Russ, exactly what I needed to know I've signed up for that site now as well and will get this moving next week (after a nice relaxing weekend hopefully!) Jeff