Joe Hayes {dot} Org

I’d like to write a bit more often, seems I’ve neglected the blog (and this site for that matter) since shortly after starting it. Time has just been so limited, with new projects began and finished nearly every week. Whether it’s for projects of my own or for clients, it seems that I have little time left to ‘blog’ for fun. I think after doing it for so long, even ‘fun’ stuff becomes work… and when done with work it’s hard to ‘want’ to do more work.

Came across this list of the first registered domain names on the internet. Thought it was rather interesting who jumped on the bandwagon first. It’s great to see they weren’t poker domains, heh. At any rate, here’s the list.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM

Google doesn’t like paid links, they’re the thorn in the side of returning the most relevant search results. For the last several years web directories have been an overused method of not only getting new sites indexed but also ranked. One of the first steps many seo’s make for promoting a new website is paying for reviews (*cough* buying links) in popular directories. Well, Google has had enough.

SEO, an acronym for one of the most misunderstood concepts for a webmaster. Optimizing your websites for search engines isn’t voodoo, in fact 90% of it is basic stuff almost anyone can do without any prior experience. While some of the more advanced methods like link building and link baiting deserve an article all to themselves, the stuff covered here get to the core of what we’re after – to  get your pages in the search indexes and have them rank for the key terms you deserve.

So you’ve started a blog? Congratulations, unfortunately though - if you build it, they will not come. Who’s they? Visitors, traffic, people coming to your website to read what’s on your mind. There are many things involved in the building of a successful blog, none more important than writing stuff people actually want to read.