While working on my redesign, I also noticed that my ranking had slipped one place to number eight on Google, when you search for "freelance artworker", so I updated my "about me" page to include more relevant links and key words...by the next day, I'd risen to number five :)
However, it's already gone back to its previous number seven ranking again. So, as well as updating my blog (which might help it rise again), I've also created a new Google account - with more relevant naming - which now gives me a new Gmail address, YouTube username and Google+ account...hopefully a combination of these will add to it?
I also plan on uploading a video to youtube, about what being an artworker entails...hopefully all of this new, relevant content, coupled with stronger keywords, will help boost my ranking further.
Now I just need to finish redesigning my site!
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Upping my game
I haven't touched the site, or my blog, for a couple of months* - but it still features in the top 7 spots on Google, when you search for "freelance artworker"...
However, one of my other aims was to improve the look and feel of the site, not just the ranking, and another was to add more content
Well, I figured I could amend my text links to be icons, and that would make my site look more in line with the homepage (yewhew.com), and I've seen a couple of sites I like with a full graphic in the background, so I'd like to try that out - those should help improve the look of the site.
I also read an article about improving your "about me" page, so I also intend to incorporate their advice, in order to improve the content of my site.
* not because I've gone off of it, I've just been busy, and working long hours.
However, one of my other aims was to improve the look and feel of the site, not just the ranking, and another was to add more content
Well, I figured I could amend my text links to be icons, and that would make my site look more in line with the homepage (yewhew.com), and I've seen a couple of sites I like with a full graphic in the background, so I'd like to try that out - those should help improve the look of the site.
I also read an article about improving your "about me" page, so I also intend to incorporate their advice, in order to improve the content of my site.
* not because I've gone off of it, I've just been busy, and working long hours.
Monday, 21 January 2013
Still riding high!
I haven't touched the blog or the site for nearly 2 weeks, and I still appear in 7th place on Google, if you do a search for "freelance artworker" :)
Looks like all my groundwork has paid off - although I will try and keep both up-to-date from time-to-time :)
One thing I noticed, Firefox and Chrome's results now tally up the same, but Safari's is still different (I appear on page 4 there, and my pinterest page features higher up the ranking than my actual website - oh well, at least it's on the radar!)
Looks like all my groundwork has paid off - although I will try and keep both up-to-date from time-to-time :)
One thing I noticed, Firefox and Chrome's results now tally up the same, but Safari's is still different (I appear on page 4 there, and my pinterest page features higher up the ranking than my actual website - oh well, at least it's on the radar!)
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Top spot on Google! 1 out of 171,000!!!
Only a couple of days later, and my website comes out on top of Google, if you search for "freelance artworker"!
Currently listed as number 1 out of 171,000 results!
Currently listed as number 1 out of 171,000 results!
Monday, 7 January 2013
Success on Google! Top ten position! Number 4!
On my previous blog, I stated on 28th December, that I wanted to get my website into the top ten on Google, if you searched for "freelance artworker", as I was languishing at position 50-to-60-something...
10 days later, I've done it! My site is in the top ten...riding high at number 4!
I know it won't stay there on it's own...I'll have to keep working on my site, and making sure I keep my blog up-to-date - as content is king!
For some tips and advice on how I did it, please read the previous posts on this blog, and my previous blog
I guess that the only thing I can do, to try and top this - apart from keep it in the top ten - is to improve it's position...and one thing I haven't figured out is why Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have different results? Maybe because Chrome is Google's, it's more up-to-date? Personally, I prefer to use Firefox, so maybe my results are based on the cache...I might need to clear it.
10 days later, I've done it! My site is in the top ten...riding high at number 4!
I know it won't stay there on it's own...I'll have to keep working on my site, and making sure I keep my blog up-to-date - as content is king!
For some tips and advice on how I did it, please read the previous posts on this blog, and my previous blog
I guess that the only thing I can do, to try and top this - apart from keep it in the top ten - is to improve it's position...and one thing I haven't figured out is why Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have different results? Maybe because Chrome is Google's, it's more up-to-date? Personally, I prefer to use Firefox, so maybe my results are based on the cache...I might need to clear it.
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Sitemap
I've set myself a goal, to try and get my test website listed in the top ten results on Google, when you do a search for "freelance artworker"...on thing I noticed is that, although I have a sitemap on there, Google's webmaster tool didn't see it, so I have generated one and pointed Google to it...
Hopefully, this will improve my ranking, and promote me up to the 1st page!
Hopefully, this will improve my ranking, and promote me up to the 1st page!
Monday, 31 December 2012
I missed a trick!
I posted this just now, on a blog called "freelancing", on a different blog address:
http://yewhew.blogspot.co.uk/
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My name is Mark Castro-Garcia, and I'm a freelancer...I set myself a goal, to get myself listed on the first page of results on Google, when you search for "freelance artworker" (ie. in the top ten).
The other day, I noticed I'd risen from the 5th page to the 3rd page, at position 21...this morning I checked, and I'm in at number 11, on page 2! Only one more increase, and I'll have achieved my goal! I won't stop there though...I intend to keep on improving - I mean for a start, my page/site is pretty sparse, so I will work on the content and the layout more, and keep updating my blog regularly as well.
One thing I've spotted is that the old link to my blog, via my site, directed people to a specific blog entry, and not my whole blog, so I've corrected that now...hopefully that will make a difference, as I've heard that blog content can be just as important to SEO results as site content.
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the trick I missed is that if I am trying to boost my connection with the search "freelance artworker", then it would make sense that my blog is called that, and so is the address! I will now amend my site's blog link again, and then carry on adding to this blog from now on
http://yewhew.blogspot.co.uk/
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My name is Mark Castro-Garcia, and I'm a freelancer...I set myself a goal, to get myself listed on the first page of results on Google, when you search for "freelance artworker" (ie. in the top ten).
The other day, I noticed I'd risen from the 5th page to the 3rd page, at position 21...this morning I checked, and I'm in at number 11, on page 2! Only one more increase, and I'll have achieved my goal! I won't stop there though...I intend to keep on improving - I mean for a start, my page/site is pretty sparse, so I will work on the content and the layout more, and keep updating my blog regularly as well.
One thing I've spotted is that the old link to my blog, via my site, directed people to a specific blog entry, and not my whole blog, so I've corrected that now...hopefully that will make a difference, as I've heard that blog content can be just as important to SEO results as site content.
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the trick I missed is that if I am trying to boost my connection with the search "freelance artworker", then it would make sense that my blog is called that, and so is the address! I will now amend my site's blog link again, and then carry on adding to this blog from now on
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