I had to go out for three hours, but in that time my previous post reached position 8 on the first page of Google. You’ll also see a link to the same post from Digg.com, listed at #2.
There’s no guarantee that the post will stay on the front page, but there’s also no reason why it shouldn’t.
And…
If you’ve been wondering about the value of having a blog for your business, you should find this interesting.
There are 170 Google searches a month for the search term ‘johannesburg hardware’. In other words, around 6 people are typing the search phrase ‘johannesburg hardware’ into Google every day.
Not one hardware store’s website appears on the first page of…
Search Engine Optimization Tips: Getting Indexed
The search engines use programs called “spiders” to discover new pages on the Internet. The spiders simply scan every page they know about, and find links to new pages. As they find them, new pages are added to the search engine’s database, or “index”.
It stands to reason, then, that in order to appear in the search engine results, your…