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Monday, May 22, 2006

note to self - great articles

google cache - new site issues

I took over a domain and have been looking at upgrading and using it. I'ts been a slow process in whcih I've taken so long that most of its links have disappeared. Heres somthing interesting.

I put up in early on may 1 (maybe earlier), a new site that is the

On may 22, today: a google search for homeschoolonline produces a site which google cached as follows:

This is G o o g l e's cache of ...homeschoolonline.org as retrieved on May 1, 2006 08:34:02 GMT.G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.This cached page may reference images which are no longer available. Click here for the cached text only.To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:omHBIFzEGP4J:www.homeschoolonline.org/+
homeschoolonline&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

On may 22, today: a google search for homeschoolonline.org produces a site which google cached as follows:

This is G o o g l e's cache of http://homeschoolonline.org/ as retrieved on Oct 24, 2005 09:24:15 GMT.G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.
This cached page may reference images which are no longer available. Click here for the cached text only.
To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:bKtA5Iyh4A0J:homeschoolonline.org/+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Questions:
- different gooogle servers?
- difference in www.hom... vs http://hom...
- site not set up or registered right?
note - i've tried to not put in any live links from this site to that one on the theory that if google nows that we're part of the same family, they discount the links.....

Saturday, May 20, 2006

cool seo tool - backlink counts

Time4Learning-SEO-Progress-Backlinks
t1	r1c2	Jan	3/31	May20	June
Time4Learning				2500
Todays Learners		a	b	305
Learning & Fun			55	276
row 4	ddd

New problem - how do I add columns & rows? (i've been doing it by a painstaking trial &error process.

The solution to my problem was suggested by the brilliant and helpful mr. peter of: http://bloggerfordummies.blogspot.com

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Page Count - SEO Site Architecture Question

I have an page-count-seo-site-architecture question. My page count in google seems to have dropped from a high of 270 in mid March down to around 235 pages today.

1. Does it matter? Does more pages mean better search engine positioning?

2. Could it be because I've changed by site map structure. I used to list all my pages in the sitemap but it was confusing to my human users. So I have a short site map which links to an exhaustive siteindex. Is this a good idea? Is there a better way of accomplishing the same thing?

3. Is there any simple way of finding out which pages used to be there?

Monday, May 15, 2006

Homeschool Progress

**Time4Learning-SEO-Progress**
	Searches	March	April	May	June
homeschool	137,953	below 100		65th	65
home school curriculum	28,814	21	20	14	13
homeschool material	2,278		55	9	8
homeschool online	6,441		9	8	4
homeschool resource	5,607				16

Note - this article on seo homeschool progress has been updated.
(Question - What should i do to keep the table at the top of the page?
Answer - go into settings, turn off convert line breaks. i found this on an old posting on the support group.
New Problem - But when I do this, all my old posts lose their formatting and are unreadable...
Is there a better solution?
New Answer from - http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-publishing/browse_thread/thread/984557d71363041c/d1ec5af71152dae6?q=tables&rnum=1#d1ec5af71152dae6
by someone named frelkins. Who was that masked man? thanks

The solution to my problem was suggested by the brilliant and helpful peter of: http://bloggerfordummies.blogspot.com

Sunday, May 07, 2006

home education, homeschool education, abeka - SEO progress

March Yahoo searches
428 homeschool education Time4Learning is number 4. the number one spot goes to www.home-ed-magazine.com and the number two spot goes to www.nhen.org

8361 searches for home education
- time4learning not in top 100 - uhg
Big todo - create home education page!
the leaders are: www.tucows.com/Windows/HomeEducation , www.nwrel.org , and www.microsoft.com/uk/education/

Abeka Searches in March with T4L Status on 5/7

searches keyphrase
7990 abeka (note there were only 1004 searches of the correct spelling "a beka") - not in top 100
7990 abeka curriculum - 20th on google
1759 abeka book
1432 abeka home school curriculum - 10th
1271 abeka home school - 10th
554 abeka academy - not in top 100
389 abeka home schooling
158 abeka math - 10th (35th if you spell it a beka math)
156 abeka program - 48th

Friday, May 05, 2006

Help Wanted - Education Site - SEO help

These are open projects that I would like some expert or low-cost help with. The site is about home schooling and enrichment.

1. Site architecture. Here I would pay good money for someone who could convince me that they understand how to improve my internal link structure including helping me with whether and how I should set up a google map.

2. Links. I always want more links. Important relevant deep links. If they bring traffic, great. But my experience is that links help the search engines which bring traffics. If there is someone else doing related non-competitive work (perhaps for online colleges), we could share the costs and benefits of building out some sites.

3. Best use of parked domains. I have many many domains. More than I should. I have dozens (not hundreds - I've met people with hundreds. Buying domains is a little like gambling or other bad habbits). One question I have is how to best deploy these domains from an SEO or revenue point of view?
- How many new sites should I create with a few articles and some adsense ads? If they are hosted at different sites, do they count?
- Or is it better to have multiple domains pointing or redirecting (does it matter) to another domain?
- Can I deeply embed one domain into another?
- Is putting blogs onto them the best way?
Any takers on helping me sort thru this both conceptually and logistically?

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

SEO Progress - Home School Keyphrases

Progress 0n Google

Great News - On 1st page for "online homeschool" (5th! - see detailed analysis at bottom), homeschool materials (10th, previously 50th) and homeschool curriculum reviews (10th!).

Also, dramatic improvements on homeschool resourse (from 90th->30th!) and homeschool program (100th->10th)

Bad News - going the wrong way on homeschool. Why? Increased competition? Loss of links? Other issues like site architecture?

homeschool homeschool-curriculum.htm
5-3 81st - 241 google pages indexed 361 pagelinks 4750 domain links
3-31 64th

homeschool resource /homeschool-resource.shtml
5-3 30th - 18 pagelinks
3-31 90th

homeschool curriculum - 28814 in march on Yahoo - homeschool-curriculum.htm
5-3 20th
3-31 21st

homeschool material - 2278 in march on Yahoo - homeschool-resource.shtml
5-3 10th 18 page links
3-31 55th

homeschool program - homeschool-language-art.shtml
5-3 50th
3-31 100th

homeschool curriculum review 1375 in march on Yahoo - homeschool-curriculum-reviews.shtml 5-3 10th - 4 backlinks to page 0 uses of phrase on page

home school curriculum review (yes, this looks like the previous one but with a space!)
5-3 10th - but 4 uses of phrase on page

Total of 6441 yahoo searches in march for homeschool online
homeschool online - 9th on 5/3, 12th on 3/31 /homeSchool-online.htm
home school online - not in top 100 ever
online homeschool - 5th on 5/3, 7th on 3/31 /homeschool-curriculum.htm
online home school - 66th on 5/3 with /homeSchool-online.htm, not in top 100
"homeschool online" - 8th on 5/3
"online homeschool" - 5th on 5/3 homeschool-curriculum.htm

Todos - put "homeschool curriculm review" onto page - done- increase external links to homeschool curriculum review and homeschool material - done

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Home School Resource Searches

Homeschool Materials & Resources?
Yahoo USA gives these as the March 06 searches;

Searches done in March 2006
Count Search Term
137953 home school
28814 home school curriculum
8594 christian home school
6441 online home school
5607 home school resource
5481 online home school for texas - guess I should write some texas online pages...
4308 high school diploma at home
4070 home school driver education - and teach drivers ed
3797 california home school - and do more with California
3742 driver home school training
3645 home school program
3529 driver ed home online school
3364 home school worksheets
3271 home school alabama
3202 high school home page
2763 disney home princess printable school worksheets
2709 home school driver ed
2673 ohio online home school
2610 home school high school diploma
2608 driving home school study
2556 dmv home school
2424 high school diploma from home
2398 driver home online school training
2339 christian home school curriculum
2278 home school material