Brisbane website design and SEO by Computer Aid
After creating, recreating and countless cycles of refining our own websites (me and my wife), we got a customer who wanted a personal website designed. (We aren’t pushing the web design (or SEO) side of the business, we just want it to grow naturally, as part of the general computer help and repair side of Computer Aid)
He had already purchased the domain name (dazx.com.au) and a hosting package from unlimited-space.com.
He wanted something like what he currently had with a free website hosting company, so we decided to go for a simple site (one html page, and the rest using the apps supplied by unlimited-space).
We decided to try frontpage, but eventually went back to using Nvu. We created a photo gallery using Coppermine, a joke section as a blog using WordPress, and a guestbook using ViPER.
Mandy wanted to create a great website, but given that this was a ‘budget’ website, I had to insist we tone down the extra features. Creating a consistent look and feel across all the applications was worth doing, but creating fancy navigation buttons, with a mouseover effect, was going too far. It would have cheapened our service (the equivalent of offering a Merc for the price of a Hyundai)… subsequent customers could expect similar service levels, which we cannot afford to deliver (given the huge amount of time it takes to design and customise).
Anyway, the customer is very pleased.
I did a handover (setup email, and gave instructions on how to update the contents of the website).
It all went very well.
Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page.
I have several hundred 600+ inbound links.
I have pinged Technorati manually and used pingoat as well as pingomatic every time I add a new blog.
There is plenty of content, about 30 articles.
What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog?
I see what you mean… my blog seems to do the same thing.
However, I haven’t done much to optimise my blog.
I have added a weather section, which is updated every 30 minutes… maybe thats why google hits my blog 2500 times per month (about 3 times per hour)
Google really likes my blog… but then I also publish new articles every 3rd day, so it has a lot of unique, original content. And although they say that on the web: “content is king”, others (including myself) prefer to say: “good, fresh content is king”.
changing page titles might give you a 1% to 10% boost in ranking, but frequent, regular articles, can give you a 50% – 200% boost in traffic and a huge increase in ranking.
Do the hard work, and it will pay off.
Take the quick & easy way out, and the benefits (if any) will only be short lived.