I Love this DIYThemes Call Out of TMZ and Pointing Out Bad SEO
For the aspiring webmaster who wants to create a blog and make it big, they have to generate website traffic hits. Web surfers don’t come on their own, that’s for sure. And it’s an interesting learning curve on what a website owner can learn about the all-important world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and other related issues.
As you delve into this seemingly easy world of the web, you’ll start noticing that there are good ways and bad ways to try and trick Google and other search engines into liking your website.
There are the basics that ProBlogger and DIY Themes can teach you. And as you grow, you’ll notice that different sites do different things to capture traffic. Some nice, some tricky. Some sites use open-ended questions in their titles to bait the curious. Some will use titles making you think they have certain content in the article, but all you get is a “to be posted soon” notice in the article. Then there’s something like what DIY Themes made note of in how TMZ had reported one event many months back.
DIY makes mention of ‘white hat’ and ‘black hat’ SEO practices in their article. That is, doing article creation like a human might do or say it, using all the right key words, but using catch phrases when appropriate. Then there’s ‘black hat’ techniques… that would be like stuffing your titles or web paths or images with keywords, trying to capture traffic.
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Part of the battle of internet or website SEO and such is keeping tabs on things and going-ons in and around the site you run. It’s crazy to try to keep a certain pace up, but somethings do need to be taken care of. If you don’t pay attention, sometimes things get clustered!
The other day I was tooling around underneath my website and checking on some things under the hood so to speak. Glad I did.
A few months back I was tooling around with another SEO helping process called Attracta, I didn’t give it another thought for a while. But then last week they sent me an email telling me I needed to update my site map. Wha??? Why would I need to do that. Google and other search engine entities come by most every website at least once a day with their crawler bots to check on automatically generated sitemaps. I gots me a plugin that keeps me honest with that. (A sitemap is just a huge table of contents of your website. That’s all.)
But what the heck, why am I submitting a new sitemap to Attracta? What do they have to do about anything?
Well wouldn’t you know it, Attracta hijacked a file that the search engines look at and had a redirect line in that file that pointed all the search engines to a sitemap that I built over there on Attacta’s website months ago. A three month old sitemap. Thanks Attracta! Now I am presuming that this redirect line had been screwing me over because site traffic had been slowly quieting down.
Eery time I tinker with a site or service that offers help in building traffic, all they do is f*! you up or take your money! There’s nothing better than old-fashioned elbow grease to get the job done right.
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GoDaddy Girl Candice Michelle
If you use Godaddy.com’s services for domain registration or hosting, you know that when you sign up for these services, you are presented with a myriad of other services that you can use in conjunction with what you are ordering.
It can be mind boggling.
As an experienced web programmer, I found things like Website Tonight to be annoying. It’s great for the beginner. They give you everything you need, but as you grow in your programming, you might find the editorial restrictions I encountered incredibly annoying.
But that’s for another article. Today I want to talk about their Search Engine Visibility Tool.
It will run me about $30 to renew this service and I have to say that the service isn’t as much a service as it is a guidance of what you can do to get exposure.
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Have you ever wondered who ranks amongst the search engines, or who people are using? Nah, me neither. I mean as far as I can tell Google has the world by the keyboards on this one!
But just in case you are curious, check out the Top 10 Search Providers on the internet, as provided by the Nielsen company Blog, during the month of October 2009:
| Top 10 Search Providers for October 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) |
| RANK |
Provider |
Searches (000) |
Share of Searches |
|
Total |
10,218,842 |
100.0% |
| 1 |
Google Search |
6,759,395 |
66.1% |
| 2 |
Yahoo! Search |
1,574,891 |
15.4% |
| 3 |
MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search |
986,747 |
9.7% |
| 4 |
AOL Search |
310,178 |
3.0% |
| 5 |
Ask.com Search |
176,744 |
1.7% |
| 6 |
My Web Search |
101,436 |
1.0% |
| 7 |
Comcast Search |
51,995 |
0.5% |
| 8 |
NexTag Search |
35,088 |
0.3% |
| 9 |
BizRate Search |
30,690 |
0.3% |
| 10 |
Yellow Pages Search |
30,422 |
0.3% |
PS: In case you didn’t notice, the search numbers are in the billions.
