Anthony, sorry about mucking up my preceding comment, I will redo it and post it as a graphics file. That way the html tags will come across as intended.

Most of the issues with your sites google rank were explained in the previous thread. However I’ll repeat some of them:
1. look at the search terms where WUWT does rank highly. “Climategate” is an obvious example.
2. Consider what is different about “Climategate” compared with “Climate Change” (or whatever) when looking at your site.
3. Change your site accordingly.
For example look at the menus below your masthead. Is “Climategate” there? Yes. Is “Climate Change” there? No.
OK now look at what your menu headings DO say – are any of them likely search terms? Hmm not really. Amend them accordingly. “Resources”? Why not “Climate Change Resources”? “Reference”? why not “Global Warming Reference”?

You will never beat them in search engine queries. They have “global warming” “climate change skeptic/sceptic/denier” and mixed result, mainly believer articles, with “climate change”. We have “AGW”. Simplicity and repetition wins the mob. Also, the mob happened to of grown up within the technology explosion; any and all articles they wish to be prominent, will be so.
Once enviro issues became solidified as a left-wing embodiment, reason was lost. If you are familiar with the American Left, you’ll know substance in debate is irrelevent, as all debate is unnecessary. So you keep doing what you all do, and the rest of us will try to hold the line. It’s difficult to do as this is just one of the many fronts they push forward on.

My own website pcdi.co.uk has been no 1 on Google.co.uk for the keyword Goldmine for over 10 years so I can claim some knowledge of how Google ranks pages. Many screech “conspiracy” and “evil” when the truth is that the blog post authors do not provide the right “food” for Google. They write their articles to be interesting to the readers rather than the search engines. There are many components to the Google algorithm but in simple terms the Title meta tag is by far the most important. As has been mentioned by others the keyword meta tag has been ignored for many years.
Google seeks out words and phrases on a page it considers ‘significant’. To target a particular keyphrase it is necessary to insert that keyphrase in the page name as seen in your browser address bar. Then ensure that it also appears multiple times in the body text, head lines emboldened and cross heads, italics – all these are seen as “significant” by Google.
Google is thought by many to take the text of the top 100 search results for any keyphrase and analyse it for word distribution. and context. So pages that Google sees as interesting pages for “Global Warming” will also contain similar terms such as climategate, climate change etc. Your pages will be compared and ranked against this picture of the ideal page for any keyphrase.
However although such keyphrases as Global Warming and Climate Change may be important, they are just a tiny part of the “stock” of climate related keyphrases that sites such as WUWT needs to target. The reality is that searchers use tens of thousands of variations for any topic. This is a big job and requires the posters to consider how Google will view their post. making intelligent adjustments to titles and body text can have a dramatic affect on the number of visitors a post can attract.
In a similar way commentors can affect the Google rank by reading the post, staying on topic and echoing the post keyphrases.
I am guessing but I would expect this post and its comments to move up the rankings quite rapidly over the next few hours for terms such as global warming and climate change. This is because the page now looks “interesting” to Google for climate related keywords.

Anthony, I changed my mind about how to present my tips on search engine optimization. I wrote them up as intended and posted them here: http://fathersforlife.org/Tips/PCtips.htm#Search-engine_optimization

@Anthony: Why don’t you hire a consultant who deals with such things? You link to other sites from your front page that don’t link back to you. That means you are lower in ranking. Stuff like that will help if you’re concerned about your Google ranking.
Your wikio link is broken (404). Looks like they changed their name to “ebuzzing”. Who the hell made that decision?

Well, with “global warming” I could nof find whatsupwiththat on google.
But with the search term “climate blog” whatsupwiththat appeared on page one, as answer number six.
That is not too bad. So someone looking for a blog on climate issues will probably find whatsupwiththat on google

Why would Sergej and Larry want anyone to know about the global warming scam; Google exploits the subsidy schemes wherever it can.

I’ve just been ‘clicking’ on WUWT on page 28 and when I went to it yet again….low and behold and additional set of ‘clickable’ words have appeared under wattsupwiththat.com which say……… “Block all wattsupwiththat.com results” ???????? I’ve saved a jpeg of it.

Anthony
The point is you have more control over your WordPress metatags than you realize. WordPress automatically creates the page URL from the post headline. It does this because WordPress knows how important these few words are to Google.
Now take a look at the latest post title:
“Be careful today and tonight, billions may die”
These are the words that Google in its blind ignorance (no conspiracy here) assumes our post author considers the most important to the target audience. so of course anyone who searches for “Be careful today and tonight, billions may die” is likely to find this post ranked right at the top. And of course (i just checked) it is. Perfect! Now – how many potential visitors are likely to search using that string?
You just have to make titles and text relevant to Google as well as your readers if you want to rank well on Google for the search terms people are actually using.