From XSitePro to WordPress and Beyond

I just successfully completed the transition of a static website to a wordpress blog.  That wording sounds kind of awkward so I'll try again.  I just took one of the sites I originally created in XSitePro and turned it into a wordpress blog, keeping the page urls consistent  in the process.  I'm thrilled.  I've been wanting to do this for quite awhile but have felt anxious about it, not wanting to screw the whole thing up in the process. There are a couple reasons that I wanted to do this.  I find wordpress to be much easier to add content to. … Continue reading

Website Traffic – Tracking and SEO

There is a member on the Warrior Forum - sparrow - who appears to have worked in programming and SEO and related fields for awhile. My take is that he knows his stuff and has had some solid success building high ranking on search engines. I became aware of him when he posted some special offers. The first was for a "secret" technique that would put static websites on a par with blogs in popularity with the SEs. With this he also included a method for getting pages indexed promptly and predictably. I have implemented most of… Continue reading

Search Engine Myths Reviewed (Briefly)

I read Jonathan Leger's latest research report last night -- "Search Engine Myths Exposed". It's well written, very compelling and makes sense. It's free, so you might want to check it out. The part I found most interesting was his explanation about duplicate content and whether or not you can be indexed and ranked if you include it on your site. The key is to get links and links and more links. I know this and have known it for a long time. Why don't I do a better job of getting links to my… Continue reading

Backlink Solutions is a Breeze

I am loving Backlink Solutions! 

This membership allows you to post to over 100 blogs to create backlinks to your sites. All you have to do is post a snippet of content with an embedded anchor text/destination url and you're good to go. There is supporting software available both to create the snippet with your link, and to post to the blog automatically. You don't have to access the blog itself at all.  You can create backlinks to any of your sites that you want to right from the same interface. Very easy, and I'm already figuring out… Continue reading

Slow Indexing

I created a new blog about 2 1/2 weeks ago in the natural health niche. I have posted to it almost daily, and I am shocked to find that it is not yet indexed by google. Very interesting. I have submitted the site to many social networking and bookmarking sites. I have claimed it on Technorati. I made some comments on several PR4-6 blogs. I ping with each post, but it's still not indexed! What's going on here? The most recent websites I created were indexed in about 3 days. The 2 differences I can… Continue reading