Well not technically my first post but I have started and stopped this blog so many times and changed directions with it, it’s probably my 1000th post or some obscure number. But either way, I have started to see the merits in actually writing a blog and actually “backing up” said blog. I have a habit of deciding to try out new things and then figure I can not be bothered actually re-installing the backups I’ve made so my blog always ends up bare for weeks/months before I can motivate myself to start writing about something. Like all good things, getting started is the hardest part of anything but once you get going, it of course becomes much easier since you’ve already got yourself into some sort of rhythm…

Am I making sense here? Possibly not lol

So lets start with the whole SEO thing which is probably just as much a Black Art as it is the Voodoo Doll of  Geeks. I presume it’s a lot like plumbers (or any other tradesmen for that matter – sorry if you are a plumber btw). They turn up at your house, charge a small fortune, tap a few pipes and then tell you it’ll cost a few hundred pounds to replace a 20 pence washer.

I really do feel that it’s a lot like this with Search Engine Optimisation since people who are unaware what it’s all about get duped into the whole hysteria of things and try and not look confused when they get told about “Keywords”, “SERPs” and “Page Rank”. The truth of the matter is, everyone is chasing Page Rank on their websites, companies are being told that Page Rank = Visitors and of course Visitors = “Conversions” . So they’re all eager little bunnies to try and get their website to display a big long green bar (that’s the mystical Page Rank display).

I have to admit, I was also caught up in trying to figure out how the hell I could *coughs* trick Google et al into thinking my website and of course the Content (you know, Content is King as they say) was the greatest it had ever come across and should warrant being in the number 1 spot for well, everything I wrote about really. The problem is, it’s not going to happen over night for anyone and for those that do manage to get their for Keywords which aren’t so obscure, they could almost be a Google Whack (remember those?). For every popular search query, there will no doubt be hundreds if not thousands of website owners and companies chasing the glories and riches of being on page one in first place. I myself am fighting an uphill battle with my Mobile Phone Price Comparison website since there are so many websites big and small all competing for the numerous keywords and search queries. I know I’ll never get to number one for “Mobile Phones”, but it of course could be possible I could make it close to the top spot, or at least page one for longer Keywords, often termed, “Long Tail Keywords”. Essentially, using my Phone website as an example, I could possible target a search query such as the “Best Mobile Phones Deals” or “Cheap Mobile Phone Deals”.

There is lots of things that can be done, so much in fact that there are Books, Websites and Blogs devoted to the whole subject. I’ll let you into a little secret though, all SEO is, is basically – “Good Quality Content”, that is to say, it needs to be well written, contain a lot of Keywords which are focused on what your Website or Blog, your Business or whatever it is you have online is about. Now there would be little point in having a Website for, for example, Mobile Phones (such as my website) and me writing content on that Domain Name about anything that was not relevant to Mobile Phones, Mobile Networks or Mobile Phone Deals.

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