Shady's Port-O-Pulpit » SEO http://blotterati.com/portopulpit gonzo evangelizing the eschaton Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:22:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Take A Vacation… Step Out For A While http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/2012/03/10/learning-seo/ http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/2012/03/10/learning-seo/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:55:02 +0000 shadygrove http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/?p=251 More >]]> Well, I’ve been away from the blog and off learning SEO and building my site, selling Blotter Art at Shakedown Gallery. (That’s some anchor text. Feel free to use it all over the web! Any time you want to use the phrase “blotter art” and link it to ShakedownGallery.com it will build my ranking in the search term for Blotter Art. And that’s been mostly what I’ve been focusing on learning the past twelve months. And it’s worked. I’ve been going up in the ranking in search engines and getting some — not a lot, but some — traffic to the Shakedown Gallery web site.)

Maybe now I’ll get back to keeping a blog? Or maybe I’ll just fill this blog with SPAM to direct traffic to my blotter art site.

]]> http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/2012/03/10/learning-seo/feed/ 0 SEO Etc http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/2010/01/31/seo-etc/ http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/2010/01/31/seo-etc/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:21:27 +0000 shadygrove http://blotterati.com/portopulpit/?p=158 More >]]> Well, my project of the hour is trying to boost Google Page Ranking by wrapping my head around Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The goal is to understand SEO well enough to be able to move The Shakedown Gallery up the blotter art food chain enough that it will start to generate revenue and make me some money while I’m not out on the highway hitting every parking lot across the country trying to turn the Jamband Scene into my meal ticket.

Part of that pertains to my growing disinterest in most of the music (yes, I do, in fact, really like Furthur even though I think they sound more like a cover band than any other post-Jerry GD project to come along) but, even with that endorsement, I find that I’m increasingly disinterested in the crowd politics at the shows.

So my goal is to have enough of an understanding of linking that online traffic and promotion of art online can start to really subsidize my road income.

We’ll see how that goes.

In the meantime, it’s a hoot to try to learn something new, and the SEO, Google Analytics, WordPress thing is definitely something new for me to wrap my brain around.

Right now I’m just doing my best with an out-of-the-box Free WordPress Template (in this case Mystique)… mostly to save money. If I should happen to wind up getting rich, I’ll work on finding someone I can pay to build me a custom template.

Footnote: Here’s my Technorati Blog Claim Code: 6YMSMDSZRBHR

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