Sunday, January 06, 2008

Alright, Alright, Fiiine! I'll make the changes.

Ok, so after much debate with myself (I do that a lot), I was able to wear myself down and convince myself to redo the whole site (all four pages of it). Before, the site was made of a mixture of tables (HTML) and CSS and all of the pages were in the same directory. The result was a site that was tedious to make changes to (because if I wanted to make a structural change I had to do it to all four pages) and a site were only the .xml sitemap and main page showed in the search engine results page (SERP) of google. The other pages were glaumed into the "similar pages" of the SERP, boo. So I made two big changes. 1) I moved the entire look and structure over to a single .css page (so now a change to a single file has a site-wide impact) and 2) I moved each page to its own directory. Hopefully the separate directory thingy will convince google etc. to include all pages in the index. I'm also working through some reading material so hopefully I can learn PHP before the sun explodes. One potential drawback is that the free site that I'm using (awardspace.com) doesn't appear to have the cURL library for PHP installed. If you don't know, that's a library that allows you to emulate a web browser which allows you to do nifty things like automate the process of making e-mail accounts, creating accounts and posting on social bookmarking sites, and making the all mighty webbots. I'm interested in the ones that will go through a proxy server (masking its origins), enter search terms I'm targeting into search engines, and then visit my site through the results page (hopefully convincing the search engines that my site deserves a higher ranking). That, social bookmarking, and some other tricks (which I will be learning) I think will do the trick. Buuut, by the time I get all that stuff going, probably no one will care about the fujifilm finepix f50fd. My immediate goal, however, is trying to convince google to visit my site a lot more often than it does (which at the moment is around every 8-10 days). What is annoying is that my non-SEO blog deadgrasshopper.wordpress.com will get things indexed in a matter of hours. Understandable since it is wordpress's site, but still annoying.

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