Blogging for SEO

In an effort to give sites a bit more visual appeal. Thanks to jScripts, the page curl can easily be added with a bit of photoshop for the images that appear. An example can be found on a site for Breckenridge real estate that uses it in the first implemented stages. As later accounts emerge, more will surface with higher quality. Also serving as a link, the Page Curl can cleverly link to any page you want, most commonly used to go to contact pages and such.

Email’s done through some email client as I’ve discovered over the past few days have an astonishing amount of div’s in them. They don’t even do anything in the particular email’s look, but yet they live. Taking out these div’s and making the look a bit more friendly to your eyes is as easy as using any editing software. Heck, even notepad will do. While not encouraged in the degree of email that I’m referring to (there were literally over 100 div’s), it is still doable. I recommend using the Firefox Developer Toolbar or Dreamweaver. I’m sure there are others, but I currently only use those two. Well, three if you count notepad.

The toolbar however gives you the ability to grab the code and work with it to make sure that it looks exactly how you want it to when you use it in other areas. Forum posts, edited email’s, site building, ect.

Not but a month ago, there used to be perhaps one or two folders in the New stack, with a sizable stack in the Rework section. Now, it seems that the News stack is growing off the wall; this is a good thing, of course, because it means that more clients are being pulled in, from home based business sites to wedding and family photography sites.

So am I complaining? Absolutely not! It’s great to see a wide range of clients coming in, as opposed to just MLMs or real estate agents.

Cuil has been out for a short time and already is claiming to do 3 times more indexing than Google itself. And ten times more than Microsoft. The time to submit your URL’s and such to the engine is now. Going off of the sites content and not the popularity the domain, Cuil shows promise with giving the people relevant results in their future searches when they become more populated in their crawled pages. Pay close attention to this particular engine. Great things are expected from this new contender.

It seems that over the time I have spent working here, that writing is the most intricut part of SEO. You can design the best looking website, or have the most consumer friendly layout. But in the end, if your content is not good, your page will not be ranked, and no one will see your site. Using the Content Length excel sheet given to me by the Shu, I have found that writing content has become a fair bit easier. No longer am I guess, thinking that perhaps I have shorted the amount of words. No, now it is much more simplified. I used this content length sheet for a Unicare Texas site that I made. It has to do with insurance in Texas and such.

Hope this helped! Until next time.

Well, this week was fun with a San Francisco outdoor teak client whose website was absolutely fantastic - not going to lie, I strongly enjoyed designing their optimization page.  It’s really nice to get a site that has a simply great look and feel to it.  I’m a bit iffy about their opening page, but the general presentation of the site is simply good looking.

Optimization only does part of the sale - a great site like that does the rest!

Del.icio.us has got itself a brand new look, which is far easier to read than before. Even recognizable through delicious.com, the improvements are really in the design of the site. Showing the tags on the right with the title and description to the left. Making the tags much more discernible to the untrained eye. It did certainly have it’s bugs in the beginning of the new design where it would kick you from even looking at your own account, but these issues seem to be fixed.

So, I’m sure many people have read or at least heard about Microsoft trying to take over Yahoo!, but now even more interesting is that MS and Yahoo! are attempting to now take over AOL.

According to Ars Technica, Yahoo! it seems wants the internet portal; so, basically, we’d have a Yahoo! internet service, from what I gather - not just email, but more places for users to place ads. Microsoft, on the other hand, wants a search function. Right now AOL uses Google for its search, but of course if it mergers into either of these companies, that would be dropped for either Live Search (Microsoft) or Yahoo!’s search engine.

The major difference between these two offers seems to be that Microsoft wants to buy it outright, while Yahoo! just wants to combine (thus giving Time Warner a share in the combined company). At least, that’s what I gather about it.

I don’t think that this will really affect SEO in any kind of way unlike what a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! would, but it is kind of interesting to watch the big guys duke it out.

There are times when I wonder how a person can sit and write all day. Now, I love to write; writing introduced me to art, which got me into design in the first place (and led to my general computer geekry). However, right now I am writing content for a online affiliate opportunity website and am finding it very difficult. As creative as I try to be, it is very difficult to not be redundant with 47 keywords and approximately 18 pages of content to write up (darn you, content calculator!)

Either way, it’s coming along. I am approximately halfway done. Nonetheless… This is one part of SEO that I admittedly find the least enjoyable. The rest of it is fine with me, but it can be difficult at times to make words appear about how people can make great money all from the comfort of their living room sofa.

Ah, well. What must be done must be done; the paragraphs are slowly flying by as I chip away at this rather large amount of keywords.

And right now I’m hating the large stack of pink folders.

GoDaddy’s whois is showing 3 of them being on Dreamhost. The issue with that is that so many people could be on Dreamhost that there could be the possibility the domain name is taken, and hosted on Dreamhost. Le sigh. Another one doesn’t show any registry information at all under Whois, yet is taken. Joy.

I think so far I have gotten one licensed <a href=”http://hugeincomeinweeks.com”>home based business</a> site done - the first one I worked on. Waiting for another to propagate from Dreamhost. Either way, the stack of null domains is slowly growing.