Monthly Archives: March 2009

Website Submission – Just to clarify

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Does this look familiar?

I will Submit your Site to 1 BILLION Search Engines for 5 dollars!
It will make you millions and get you loads of visitors in minutes!
Do NOT Delay – one off payment ONLY €49

This technique is so old I don’t even know why I have mentioned it, maybe because you still see it used (unbelievably).

Save your money and go have a good party, buy the girlfriend a present (definatley much more value there) or just give it to charity.

You do not need to submit your site to a search engine.

(at least not the ones that matter)

You CAN if you wish, but even then once is enough and only to Google it is more than enough.  A link from a site already established or a good press release to a popular article website will also allow the search engines to detect you. You will be detected and picked up, sooner or later.

Don’t waste your money on services offering this, its pointless, and frankly makes me feckin angry when I see it and see people paying for it.

Here, submit your site now, it takes 3 seconds:

Submit your site to Google

But dont just take my word for it:

References:
http://www.seobook.com/best-search-engine-submission-programs
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/ridding-the-world-of-search-engine-submission

Permalinks – Clean URLs on your Website

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By this I am referring to website addresses which contain a lot of code such as <=?> or similar. These crazy lines of code are typically produced by databases and where not considered to be SEO friendly URLS because they had little or no relevance to the content contained within the pages themselves.

Search Engines (at the time) could not read them but also people could not read them either, they seem to be complete jargon to the untrained eye and coupled with the fact that no one would ever remember or recollect them they where something that most of us tried to avoid.

SEO Friendly URLs

If for example your website address was:

http://www.mywebbie.com/search?q=sdf&sourceid=75856=navclient-ff&ie

It was much more preferable to have:

http://www.mywebbie.com/search/catagory/webstuff/item1

It is still important to have a clean URL such as the second example.  It helps to create relevance to the content and to be honest is much more pleasing to the eye. You can read a good detailed description of clean URLs (or Permalinks) on Wikipedia.

If your using a blog, specifically WordPress its always a good idea to set up your Permalinks correctly as soon as you do a fresh install. The benfits in regards SEO and gaining listings in the SERPS is extreme in combination with a raft of other plugins you can add toaid in creating exposure.

For an exaplantion of Permalinks check out homebizpal.com and for a guide on setting your permalinks in WordPress try bloggingbits.com.

The Process of Simplification

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Making things simple is HARD.  That is a fact.  No matter what idea you have, no matter what process you put in place, the aim should always be to simplify it as much as possible, to ensure a smooth process.

In fact this was the main aim of a conversation I had today in establishing a business process when it came up in the conversation from one of my associates Mr. Finn Wissenberg who wished to direct me to this video below which is excellent in its explanation as well as its implementation.

Hats off to Jonathan Jarvis for this excellently executed simplification of the Credit Crunch.

Enjoy!

The Crisis of Credit Visualized


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.