Like many people, when I first started blogging, I discovered WordPress and it’s many features that made it easy to set up and get going within a couple of hours. One thing I loved about WordPress was the thousands of templates that were available and I soon fell in love with some very good ones from WordPress template designer Brian Gardner, (this new one is one of his too). In between using some of Brian’s WordPress templates and because I’ve set up WordPress blogs for other people, I have used templates by other designers who whilst making great looking templates,…
Google webmaster tools contain a variety of reports and tools that can help you to understand where your traffic is coming from and why they come to your site. Check out this article for a simple description of the tools on offer to every web master or website/blog owner
Why not do as Jonathan over at SmartWealthyRich suggests and spread the love to other bloggers who comment on your blog by downloading and installing the [tag]DoFollow plugin[/tag] to your [tag]wordpress[/tag] blog? By default links posted on your blog comments section have a “rel=nofollow tag” which tells the search engine not to follow the links on the page. This means despite your efforts you won’t get a link back from the site to yours.
In my last posting on Achieving search engine success, I told you that using my keyphrase had gained me #1 on MSN and #2 on Yahoo and Google. Now two weeks later I checked again and I am ranked number 1 on Google using that keyphrase. See Google Search I now have a claim to fame and can insert my claim to fame on the website if I really wanted to bugger the design.
After my last posting on December 11th, in which I wrote about trying to get ranked on Google, Yahoo and MSN with a keyphrase discovered when using Wordtracker, I took some screenshots of the current list leaders on each of the engines. My site morlenefisher.com did not appear on the first or subsequent pages of the search results in any engine. Today, I went back to check and was delighted with the results to find that I had achieved at least position 1 or 2 using the search phrase. Check it out below (search done 28th Dec 2006)
I’ve know of Alexa.com as a good place to research traffic across the internet for about 5 years or so. The thing that makes it useful is that you can immediately locate the top ranked sites on the internet. I was able to see that by going to their Traffic Rankings page I could isolate the top ranked UK web sites and be given a list of 100 of the most visited. I visited Alexa today and the top three sites listed were Google UK Yahoo Ebay Now, before continuing I should say the rankings on Alexa.com are based on…
If you have been reading the posts under search engine promotion, you will know that I am trying to increase the visibility of my portrait photography business. Stirlyn.co.uk does not only contain this blog, but also services that I offer people who require family or individual portrait photography services. People who want to have professional photographs of themselves for gifts to family or friends often hire services of a photographer, go to their studio and pose in front of a background. They may or may not pay a sitting fee and will receive their portraits after a week or so…
