Mission 1 : Google Listing
Wednesday November 28th 2007, 21:27 pm
My first mini mission was to get the site listed and indexed by Google. After only 48 hours not only is the site listed and indexed, it's also ranking 3rd for the search term Female Internet Entrepreneur!
I was a little worried about the SEO as Internet Dreamer was built in only 8 hours using a rapid development method that I've perfected after years of working for people that wanted everything yesterday. The majority of time was saved by using tables for the design instead of full CSS.
<div> vs <table>
The div's vs table's argument is the web design war for the new millenium, designers seem to choose a corner and defend it for all they are worth. I'd always advise any client of mine to go with CSS over tables, with SEO being a key factor. In the past I've had varying success with both but when this site ranked it helped remind me that it's not which you use it's how well you use them.
Both can be bloated, abused and sloppy and both can be lean, efficient and effective.
To be cliche; it's not the paint, it's the artist!
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Posted by ATV Style, at 10:46 on Sat, Dec 22nd
It is absolutely the artist, and not the paint, that lead to good SEO... but the artist today has to know how to paint, write, code, use features effectively, etc...etc... x150.
A tip for this site: At least partially convert the code from html to .css and call the left sidebar AFTER the content itself. To the end user the page looks the same, to a crawler your textual "content" will be moved to the top portion of your "coded" page making it easier to spider the first time around.
Right now your first word of actual content is about 50% of the way down your page of "code" and its known that crawlers effectively search the top 33% or so of a page on their first visit (and may not return for some time to that page if it finds nothing much of value). This isn't critical because EVENTUALLY the entire page gets indexed... but with blogs speed matters, especially when people copy your stuff and may end up being considered (temporarily) the original source if they get spidered faster.
Love the blog!
Posted by Austin, at 05:31 on Sat, Dec 22nd
That's impressive for only 8 hours. You must shed some light on your rapid development method.
Using notepad to write my stuff for online is getting old.
Posted by Phillip, at 21:11 on Thu, Nov 29th
"it's not which you use it's how well you use them, Both can be bloated, abused and sloppy and both can be lean, efficient and effective."
Wow, that is so true. Never thought of it that way. Tables is MUCH MUCH quicker than CSS but in the end the pros of CSS is much more.
But I truly understand your point.
Awesome! and good luck, I can see you doing very well.
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