chriswho » SEO http://www.chriswho.com/blog Ambition is the enemy of success... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:08:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 surplus-sites.com – SEO experiment http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/03/14/surplus-sitescom-seo-experiment/ http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/03/14/surplus-sitescom-seo-experiment/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:10:09 +0000 chris http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/03/14/surplus-sitescom-seo-experiment/ I’m trying out a real world SEO experiment with a freelance client right now.  Surplus Sites – http://www.surplus-sites.com  hired me to build a quick brochure site for them.  As a matter of curiousity now, I am curious what SEO techniques may be able to help them increase their rankings…

So far I have tried posting an ad in bowling green kentucky on craigslist, twittering about posting on craigslist, and now blogging about all of them (which should end up on technorati thanks to wordpress, etc)…

Turns out it is pretty easy to manufacture a “quick and dirty” web of links – if the property in Bowling Green, KY gets some increased traffic (thanks google analytics for making this easy), I’ll consider this a victory.   If it leases, I’ll consider it a huge victory, and if nothing happens, I’ll consider it a little bit of lost time while learning about search engine optimization…

]]> http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/03/14/surplus-sitescom-seo-experiment/feed/ 1 SEO, Tim Cahill, and Spagnostics http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/01/02/seo-tim-cahill-and-spagnostics/ http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/01/02/seo-tim-cahill-and-spagnostics/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:51:24 +0000 chris http://www.chriswho.com/blog/2008/01/02/seo-tim-cahill-and-spagnostics/ Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a curious exercise. In layman’s terms, SEO is the set of best practices that you should follow to get information to register (and rank higher) with search engines, most importantly, with Google. I applied some of my learnings on SEO for the November 11th post Tim Cahill’s World-Class Goal (Everton at Chelsea) and the results have been a little surprising…

According to Google Analytics, over the last 4 weeks, nearly 60% of the traffic to this site came from people searching for tim cahill’s goal chelsea (ranked #1 in google), or tim cahill everton goal chelsea (ranked #3) or some other variation of those words. Kind of cool, I hope everyone finding this site looking for that post finds the post helpful and chooses to stick around. I’m happy just to have you peeking in…

And on a very strange note, Google also seems to think that I am an expert on “spagnostics” as I am the #1 ranked item for that search term as well… I’m not really sure what to make of that fact though.

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