Web Presence Update

10 Aug
2009

Hi All,

I thought I would give everyone a bit of an update of what is happening behind the scenes with my site. One of the key objectives was to entertain the idea of creating a web presence. So how will I know how I’m going and if I’m heading the right way?

Monitoring with stats, checking search results and finding out where I stand. As there are fellow QUT Students doing this, and a few have decided to create their own domain I thought it would be interesting in sharing:

The last one took me by surprise, not only is it my most popular post it ranks on the front page of www.google.com when you do a search for “Abbey Sherwell”. I’m quietly happy with that, and I’m not going to complain about the 100+ hits it has received (hits are different to Unique Visitors I mentioned above). This also means that the google bot has been trawling my site for some google juice.

So I thought I would share some results (searches on Jason Van Dyk & “Jason Van Dyk”):

It would be safe to say that I’ve clearly entered the web and my rankings are on the rise (considering there were next to nothing).  I plan on writing a post to highlight some of the things I’ve done and things which you can do as well to increase your exposure but first I wanted to be able to say that “yes” it does work, and it has worked because my site is there.

I would be interested to see how other people have gone, and the steps taken by others to get them name out there.

6 Responses to Web Presence Update

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Jason Watson

August 11th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

Hi Jason,

It’s great to see you thinking this through – looks like a good comprehensive test.

Well done for entering the race!

~ Jason W

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Jeffrey

August 11th, 2009 at 9:22 pm

Hi Jason,

thanks for sharing your result.

Looking forward to read your post about increasing exposure, currently my blog can only be found on Google search by typing in “jeffreyidear”, but interestingly, only one match result camp up (because it is unique? hehe…I guess I should spend some time to learn about SEO).

-Jeffrey

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Jason

August 11th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Hi Jeffrey,

I’ll be happy to share. If I get some time tomorrow I’ll try and write up a post.

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Mark

August 16th, 2009 at 8:16 am

I’ve also found that the most popular posts are often not what you expect. That’s the internet for you – you never know who will find your musings, and what their reaction will be.

As to getting your name out there, I must say that I’m not a big fan of the recommendations from that rockthejob interview – simply signing up to a bunch of web apps just because you can seems silly. My approach has been to find apps I like and use, and simply complete the profiles, choosing to make them public where necessary.

Is it just me, or has your layout changed a few times?

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Jason

August 18th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

Hi Mark,

Yeah, my layout has changed a few times and I’m still working on something I really like. I’ve just noticed the font colour in the comment box is pretty hard to read!

Thanks for your comments.

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