Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

Web Building With WordPress

How much time can you spare per day to build and maintain your web?

And if you have several tasks going on at the same time, which is the more important?
With just that “much time” available, and when you rebuilding a web and maintaining others at the same time, which is the more urgent?

Halting Make Your Own Web Site

I usually work on several pages at the same time on my laptop, and upload them to the server together when they are ready.
There are about 11 pages written and just as I was into the editing and rewriting, something else popped up.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Rejected by BlogCatalog

My application to BlogCatalog was declined; reason?

Thank you for submitting your blog Make Your Own Website (http://starising.net/) to BlogCatalog.
Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.
Your blog was declined for the following reason:
* The URL you submitted is not a blog.

That can’t be. This site is definitely a blog.

I made another submission, rejected again, reasons:

Thank you for submitting your blog Make Your Own Website (http://starising.net/) to BlogCatalog.
Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.
The most common reasons for not getting into Blog Catalog are:

  • We could not verify ownership of your blog. A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership. visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons for more information.
  • The URL you submitted is not a blog.
  • The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam.
  • Your blog is brand new and/or doesn’t have enough content to make it truly valuable. If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.
  • Your blog contains pornographic material.
  • At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL. Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible

If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/manage_blog.html ) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue.

This only 2 reasons I could agreed to are:

  1. Your blog is brand new and/or doesn’t have enough content to make it truly valuable.
    If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.
  2. At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
    Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible

Site not accessible at time of verification is possible and common. I only need to submit for the 3rd time.

However, not having enough content is more likely to be the reason..
I accept this.

What I need to do is to re-submit after 30 posting or so.

So meanwhile, I’ll keep writing – one every other day, and continue to submit to other blog directories..

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Friday, January 29th, 2010

New Kid On The Blog

This is the fourth posting of this blog.

2 of the 3 previous posts appeared under the domain search but not under the title search in Google, Yahoo and Bing.

In fact they appeared in Google an hour after publishing the post.

If you are using the regular WordPress, it should even be faster.
I had postings on standard WordPress that were captured by Google within 15 minutes.

I am using WPMU and it’s much slower. It usually takes up to an hour.
I am not complaining on that.

All pages under the web have yet to show up.

Linking Strategy

The lesson here – If it’s a new website or a website on a new domain, it may take some time to be crawled.

Since the search engines come to the blog first though I created the web earlier, the strategy is to link the web from the blog.
This may speed up the process.
Also need to create a RSS file for the website.

While writing this, I suddenly remembered I have an unattended blog over at WordPress.com.

New website, new blog, new postings – with everything being equal – the weight should be on a more popular domain – WordPress.com.

Time to go over and do some postings at starising.wordpress.com

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Friday, January 15th, 2010