SEO and Alexa success

No your not seeing double, I simply forgot to edit rather than repeat my Posturous blog. You see Posturous posts everywhere fo me. Including here on blogger. Rather than delet my post, I have decidede to leave it here as a record of not only how dumb I am today, but also as an illustration on hopw the links work within the various socail sites.

Also it can't hurt to have all these extra links pointing to the YapYapOK website. Whoops there goes another one.

This is a super fast post on my Alexa rank.

YapYapOK free Uk classified went up over 100 000 pts since I last looked....... um yesterday. We are now ranked 2 317 391

Clearly Alexa does not upgrade on a daily basis, but I worked very hard on social media yesterday. I used most of the ones I am now familiar with. Blogger, Posturous (here Sir) Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Stumble, Bleetbox, stumble via Bleetbox, Digg, Digg via Bleetbox and My Space.

My tweeting for clicks was immensely successful due to the new investment threads courtesy of Investor Morse. I received over 300 views on this page alone. Bizarrely its not recorded so highly in my Google analysis, but the results are there to be seen.

So consequently, I am not sure what worked, if it was anyone thing or a combination of all of them. What I do know is that I am spurred on. I need to get below that elusive 2 000 000 rank.

Also I have now got over 1000 followers on Twitter. Hooray!

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SEO using meta data and social media sites

I am now on Digg, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook and I may be on get satisfaction, ( yes that one caught me by surpise too) and faveblog I have also stumbled a couple of times but still yet to understand that one. My blogs are twittered and posted on Facebook. I twitter my facebook and my blog, I Digg pages on my website and give it the thumbs up on Stumble and somehow these feed into other sites creating a complex exchange of links and further enhancing my SEO.

Don't believe me. Well enter yapyapok in to google. Look at the results. There are currently 34 entries containing the name yapyapok. There will be more after I finish this, such is the nature of the beast. We have been listed on a best hosting site bananafancy among others are twittering for us. We are on a twitter feed on a PR hub.

In grateful return I have linked all of the above to this blog.
You may notice that I have opted to have my Yapyapok twitter feeds linked to this blog too. Cool huh?

Well I have ranted on about posivive SEO via linking on social media. Let me draw your attantion to the negatives.

1 I joined stumble quite recently and in response to my profile posting a message greeted me to say a 40 year old woman has just joined stumble. OMG it was me. It took a little while to realise as I still don't comprehend 40 as being my age. In my mind I am still a young gorgeous (well when I look back I was OK) dancing queen jumping up and down to music in my favourite clubs in Torquay or Swansea or Bristol or Birmingham ( hey I got around) or where ever I was at the time. Anyway I digress, Stumble ranks highly and whenever I put in Yapyapok this piece of information greets me on the first page reintroducing me to the 40 year old who has just joined stumble.

The answer to this is clearly LIE if you don't want anyone to find your real age.

2 Never add your domain name to a URL valuation site when its in its infancy. Yes I have done it since with much better results but this seems indellibly linked to the first page. I guess the answer is to keep blogging, tweeting, Facebooking etc untill such time as it is relegated to the 12300 page on google!

SEO via meta data Social media. Did I mention I discovered Digg

I have been neglecting my blog in favour of watching my son play tennis and also to learn about Digg. Digg seems to come up in a lot of websites when it comes to web site apraisal.

To "Digg" a site is quite literally what it sounds like. You can "Digg" a specific page and then describe what that page is about. This links through to the Digg website and does wonders for your SEO. Our Alexa ratitngs have gone up another 100,000 and it is my intention to move up the ranks by at least 200,000 each week. That means that in 13 weeks we will be within 100,000 Alexa rankings.

I have decided that I am going to start some more technical SEO as well. Namely the meta dat on each page. This is not as complex as it sounds but it is dull and time consuming. Links via social media are great for getting spotted by search engines. We have been indexed by all major search engines already. Google were hot on the mark and have found all 203 pages, but that is mainly down to my Tweeting and blogging. The others have only found me this past week. The other smaller ones I will leave to organically process.

The meta data is not as hot as it used to be but is still important as this is one of the things that the search engines look for when a search term is entered. The main meta data is the title the keywords and the description. A site is priorited to a close matching title to the search terminology. Keywords should be researched to fing the most accurate or related word which must accuraely depict the content of the page. Equally the description must match the content. Search engines scan meta descriptions, titles and keywords against the site pages. If they do not match then the will simply not post them high up in the results. Clearly when this meta data is limited to a finite number of characters, then it is in the interest of the site owner to drive the right traffic to the site rather than mislead the wrong ones!

Wow, I think my brain is in overload. I now am off to Tweet my website. Yap Yap OK UK free classifieds and shop hosting.

I'm Stumbling

OK peeps, although I seem to be my own solitary follower.  Never mind.  It will make great research for my book when the time comes.  

Well I am officially a stumbler.  Granted its not as easy to get noticed as Twitter or Facebook.  I haven't quite understood the way it works but since I was unsuccessful in starting my word press blog earlier today, I felt the need to embark on another Social media site to further develop my marketing plans.  Today our new UK classified site has received 45 clicks from Twitter.  Not as good as yesterday but I have been over absorbed in other social media.

We are still in Beta and now want to convert our hits into registered users.  Not sure how to do that yet but watch this space!

Social Media and Alexa Ranking

Tweeting is being neglected today, hence only a 4 clicks. Not great seeing as I had so many click throughs yesterday, so I shall just take a moment for a tweet. Ok in less than a minute another 3 clicks.

My limited exposure and knowledge of Social Media is clearly not a problem as our Alexa rankings have increased by 90% in a week. Admittedly we had alot to do considering we were ranked at over 23 million 2 weeks ago. We are now sitting at an Alexa ranking of 2.8 million, so a vast improvement. I have found that linking my blog to my tweets has encouraged a higher following on Twitter. I have yet to master the art of followers on blogger but my blogs are public and are being read by my Facebook fans and my Twitterers. I have also yet to master the art of publishing a customised header on wordpress. I currently have a little blue question mark where it should be.

Anyway the long and the short of it is, by linking my blog to twitter as well as my facebook page I have upped my following, varied my tweets and gained enough click through to up my Alexa ranking. These are currently the only marketing tools we are using.

So excuse me while I Tweet!