Using su.pr and Twitter to gain search engine indexing

 

Probably the most ambitious search engine ranking experiment yet.

I looked in Google adwords search engine tool for high value medium high volume search terms in respect of expenses management software.

I exported fifty of tbe better ones into a text document, and then copied them directly into namecheap’s domain availability search tool.

Out . . . → Read More: Using su.pr and Twitter to gain search engine indexing

Using Page Titles for Page 1 Search Engine Results

 

Search Engine Optimisation – even the words sound tedious, and if you go down the list of things that you need to do in order to Search Engine Optmise your site, you could almost lose the will to live.

However the basics are easy, and no matter what your business does, getting your site . . . → Read More: Using Page Titles for Page 1 Search Engine Results

Disqus and Askimet: hello comments, bye bye spam!

This site has had large numbers of spam comments, all of which had to be manually deleted from time to time, so it was time to replace the WordPress comments with Disqus, and have Askimet anti spam activated.

Installing Disqus to WordPress took about ten minutes.

(a) going to Plugins and searching for Disqus

(b) . . . → Read More: Disqus and Askimet: hello comments, bye bye spam!

To get Adsense to work you need to write senseless stuff!

Having had JustAnOrdinaryJoe online for over a year now: the average visit time has doubled, the number of clicks per visit has trebled, so the content is offering some value.

Adsense however is not really performing however. This is perhaps a good thing – as the standard of ads shown can be dire. A very . . . → Read More: To get Adsense to work you need to write senseless stuff!

Adding Plugins to WordPress

 

Installing plugins to WordPress and activating them is easier than for Joomla or Drupal. I have just spent about half an hour installing the three plugins below:

To get going, I simply selected the Plugins option, from within WordPress admin, and then started browsing the link to popular plugins.

W3 Total cache is . . . → Read More: Adding Plugins to WordPress

An experiment in SEO and Drupal part III

 

Next step is to try some Search Engine Optimisation / SEO.

Currently a search on Google for “clickword” does generate a result, so the site is no longer sandboxed.

However, with clickword not in quotation marks, no result is generated. Also, for some of the website copy – “ClickWord will help the small . . . → Read More: An experiment in SEO and Drupal part III

An experiment in SEO and Drupal – Part II

 

I firstly re-logged onto my new clickword.co.uk site.

To see what it looked like at the start of part II please see the image from the first article on this series here.

Working around the Drupal administrator section is rather like working on a puzzle for the unintiated.

But pretty quickly, to add content, . . . → Read More: An experiment in SEO and Drupal – Part II

What is the internet?

“What is the Internet?” is a question that people ask 3oo million times a month on Google , and probably similar amounts on other search engines. So Ordinary Joe, whose specialisation is smoke and mirrors on the internet, is here to answer the question, and hopefully satisfy a very large number of curious minds.

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The importance of Tagging Articles; adding Widgets; etc.

As an exercise today, did three things…

(a) Added the widgets to the right.

(b) Tagged all the articles on this site with appropriate strap lines – they now appear to the right in the ‘TAGS’ widget.

(c) Added the Plugin ‘SEO Search Terms Tagging 2′. Why? This Plugin has had 170,000 downloads – and . . . → Read More: The importance of Tagging Articles; adding Widgets; etc.

An experiment in SEO and Drupal – Part I

Drupal is less said to be easy to manage than WordPress or Joomla, but is argued to have far greater flexibility. Large media companies, such as Sony, and publications, such as the Economist, have recently adopted Drupal which makes it all the more interesting to explore.

Ordinary Joe, being essentially non techy, has managed to . . . → Read More: An experiment in SEO and Drupal – Part I