An adventure in Google Pagerank, SEO and other related stuff
I’ve never had to worry much about page ranking, search engine listings and other SEO terms and techniques. This was mainly because I’d either developed intranet applications that remain unseen to the web, or for other reasons like private web applications or the owner really just wasn’t concerned. It wasn’t until the last few months when I experienced the Digg effect (on a very small scale, mind you), and subsequently being site linked to another page that I really got to thinking about how Pagerank actually works and how to go about increasing it.
We had two companies come in for meetings this week in regards to SEO and web marketing, and it was a definite eye opener. I’ll be truthful here and say that I’ve always scoffed at the amounts these company’s expect for the work they do, and whilst I still believe its not worth as much as they ask, they definitely now what they”re talking about. Luckily, the site we’re working on I Can Have It, wasn’t too bad and shouldn’t require much work (on our side) in the coding, content placement, keyword and back end areas. Most of them are superficial changes which wouldn’t take any longer than half a day t implement which is good. Of course there’s a lot of work over the coming months thats going to be put into Ad placement, Search keyword/Pagerank inflation and the like, so it’ll be interesting to see how much we get from our £x,000 bill.
I’ve also been watching this site, and its related reports on Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools, and have been blown away by how many weeks I’ve been ranked #1 for weird search terms such as double plugger, weird thong, ‘Love all the pain away’ and the sheer amount of hits I’m still getting with the terms Perth Mall, Murray St Mall Webcam, Perth Webcam and many more.
So eventually when Shanco comes online and it’s wares are launched (when this happens, you’ll be the first to know), I’ll be paying close attention to SEO, Search engine friendly URL’s, link placement and affiliate programs/cross promotion. Hopefully the bits I’ve learnt so far with HD911 will help with this.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:13 am
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February 1st, 2008 at 8:28 am
I won’t pretend that I understand much of that. But what I did sounded interesting.
Good to hear you’re learning things that will be able to earn you more moola later on!
Speaking of more moola, I got a promotion last week. For the moment I’m just “acting” as the level up from where I am now, but after 4 months working a level up, they pay you for it as well. And the backpay you to when you started working at that level! Hooray!
So anyway, at the moment I have more work without more money, but it will come eventually. I’ve just gotta get all the paperwork (or should I say e-paperwork) done.