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Yet Another Blog!

• January 25th, 2007

Hopefully this new blog will serve at least two purposes: provide some insights into the world of graphics and web site design and marketing, and help my site get better coverage in the search engines. Google in particular seems to absolutely LOVE blogs. I recently revamped the blog for my online bookstore and moved it to a subdomain. It’s already getting great rankings on Google (in effect giving me double listings for some search terms) and the home page already has a PageRank 5! So I’m out to see if the same magic will work for this site also.

One thing to look out for when optimizing blogs for the search engines is getting the right words into the first part of your title tag and also your permalink structure. If you use a permalink structure that puts the title of your post into the URL, this is more helpful for search rankings than using the date or number method of permalinks.

Watch this space. Hopefully I’ll be posting my thoughts on a variety of topics related to web design, graphic design, and search engine marketing.

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