After less than a week of trying to get this blog to appear on the first page of Google search results, success! According to Aisha is now the 8th link on the first page when you type my name into Google. Not bad, considering it did not appear at all within the first 30 pages of search results only last week!
So what did I do?
--Submitted the URL to Google which helped the website to get indexed
--Changed the title of the blog to include my first name which increased the page's relevance to my key words and is quite catchy!
--Included my key words (i.e. my first and last name) at the bottom of the last post
A more detailed account of what you can do to improve your website's visibility with online search engines can be found in Google's webmaster guidelines, http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
Truly, the best thing to do is to focus on the needs of your users and include rich information that will benefit them, first and foremost. If you do that, coupled with following a few design and technical guidelines, then SEO is a piece of cake!
Good luck to all the Search Engine Optimizers out there!
