Digitalquill

Just one hour ago I posted a blog post about work I have done today on the shed. My post talked about the product I have used for this which is Coroline corrugated bitumen roofing.

I use the Google Bot Bling plugin for WordPress which tells you when Google has visited your site and emails you a log of what was indexed. I noticed this email and saw that my latest post had been indexed so I tried a search in google for ‘Coroline corrugated bitumen’ and this site came 5th in the search engine results page (SERPS)

I have been asked by many people how I managed to post a blog post on Friday when I was at a Wedding of a friend (Congratulations to Lian and Bobby!) Well the fact of the matter is that although the post was published on Friday it could have been written at any time.I generally use the Scheduled posts facility in WordPress to publish the posts when I want them to be published which is not necessarily when I write them.

Why would I not want to publish when I write them? Well for various reasons, generally I will write a whole bunch of posts in one go and then schedule them to be published over the coming days to ensure that there is a constant feed of content to the live site, rather than a big chunk and then nothing for weeks followed by a big chunk again.

Having a constant stream of regularly posted content is better for Search Engines (SEO) especially for Google. There is a chance that Google would see a mass of published content as being SPAM rather than being genuine content if it did not fit within the pattern of posting for that site.

You will have noticed that I have started adding small images to each post, this is to add a little bit of interest to the site. The images themselves do not usually add a great deal to the post, but they do give a little eye candy.

Images are also very useful for search engines, Google indexes images and a great deal of traffic can be obtained from images search traffic, and also alt tags and images names are all used by the Google index.

Some years ago I used Sedo parking quite extensively, at that point I did not know the things I do now about domain names, websites, SEO and Google and I had limited success with the parking on Sedo. Since then I have leaned more towards creating affiliate sites on the domains, however, the problem with this approach is that many of my domains site registered and only listed on my registrars control panel not earning and not getting any search engine exposure.

As I see it I have a couple of options to actually make use of some of the domains I have been purchasing, firstly I can create mini sites on those domains, but again this takes time, or I can go back to Sedo parking.

The problem as I see it with Sedo parking is that the parking sites it creates are duplicated across all sites that are listed on Sedo, yes it does create links that are related to the domain or the keywords that you enter, however there is no facility to add text to the parking page. This would be a simple addition that would allow active domainers to add some unique content to the parking pages and as such rank better in search engines.

This portion of text could be limited to maybe 1000 words and be shown below the links and as such not affecting the position of the links. Technically I do not see that this would be too difficult for Sedo to implement, but it would improve the service considerably.

Any thoughts?

I am currently looking at developing a wordpress plug-in, really for nothing more than my own interest. I have an idea for a plugin that monitors keyword density, which would therefore be a useful tool in SEO. The formula for working this out is relatively simple, however having never attempted creating a plug-in I really have no idea where to start… google and some tutorials I guess!