Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
Some WordPress SEO Thoughts
I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down. Sometimes I see if they will pop back up on their own. The ones that do get focus. But I always give them a little freedom. That way they can tell their friends that I am a good home. And then I wait on the friends.
Priests of Blog
Most people don’t give a second thought to how the search engines work. When I explain that part of my job, I have to say something along the lines of, "You know, when you are searching for Athlete’s Foot Cream online. That first link you click on. Well, someone worked hard to get their site there out of the thousands available."
"But what if I’m not searching for Athlete’s Foot Cream?"
"Okay, Donkey Shows then."
"I don’t have much interest in Donkeys."
Long Tail Time Bombs
I knew I would have to explain this one today. If you noticed, I have a popular posts widget in the top right corner of this blog. This is based on Google Analytics stats. Well, today you may have noticed that one of those posts was the one about Rhianna being at the Smile Jamaica-Africa unite concert. I have a story about that. A really interesting one.
The “I’ve Found It” Post
Some things are still pretty hard to find online, no matter what Google, Yahoo, and Live say about perfecting their search engines. Or maybe it’s because everyone searches with long tail keywords and people are still optimizing for the short tail type. Or maybe its because link juice is not really a good indicator of quality content. I have always seen the Pagerank algorithm and other algorithms based on it as a little bit biased.
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