I was recently told about this website called Raven SEO Tools. It’s a free website where you can get your website analyzed a bunch of different ways (it cost money for more than one website). I ran a Design Analyzer on my site SwimUniversity.com and it came up with some startling results.
I was blown away by this. I thought if anything I had the website part of it down pat. But I kept reading and this is what it said.
Obsolete & Deprecated HTML
We found 7 instances where your Web page is using obsolete or deprecated HTML. The use of these HTML elements usually makes your Web pages larger (which increases download time), and they are no longer used in modern Web design. For optimal Web design and search engine results, we recommend only using a combination of validated XHTML and CSS — where all styles have been stripped from the XHTML and placed in the CSS.
Below is a list of obsolete or deprecated HTML. If an element is listed without an attribute, the element is considered obsolete or deprecated. If an element and attribute are shown together, the attribute is considered obsolete or deprecated.
- table align
- table bgcolor
- td height
- td width
- td bgcolor
- a target
- img name
Your Web design appears to use nested table elements. Nested tables are used to control the layout of a Web page, but are no longer used in modern Web design. All layouts should be controlled by CSS. Nested tables break up the semantic order of a Web page, and unnecessarily increase the page size.
I have been building webpages using HTML tables for years and now I come to find out that you should not build your website using nested tables for SEO purposes. Now I know that wordpress doesn’t use tables but I really didn’t want to learn how to re-build my entire website using CSS and DIV tags. I use CSS but for fonts not for the complete design.
I started trying to redesign my site in CSS using DIV tags and I was able to it pretty quickly. The problem came when I realized that my entire website was dynamic and I didn’t want to screw it all up. Especially because my title were dynamic too.
So I did a little research and found out that using CSS and DIV tags are the ideal for website design because you can make one change to a CSS file and it changes it across the entire website but it DOES NOT EFFECT YOUR SEO. Which to me was the most important part. So I have decided not to re-build my website in CSS right away but I am going to slowly construct a test site just so I can build my knowledge about DIV tags and CSS.
What next?
http://thekeywordacademy.com/why-social-traffic-is-the-ultimate-false-idol-of-internet-marketing/
http://traffikd.com/smm/improve-your-results-with-social-media/
http://www.carlocab.com/5-tips-to-grow-search-engine-traffic-to-your-blog/
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-are-your-internet-goals-for-2009-group-writing-project/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/12/10/you-need-a-blog-strategy/
What next?
While trying to build traffic to my ArrestedDevelopmentBlog.com website, I was asking my followers on Twitter what I should do. I got a lot of recommendations saying to use Facebook.com
Now I have a personal Facebook that I use to keep in touch with friends from High School and other personal things and I was curious if I should use that. My advice to you is if you already have a pretty good Facebook Account use it to your advantage. You can sign up for groups in your niche and start your own. And you can act like you have nothing to do with the blog you are trying to promote and just trying to give people good information.
I’ve noticed that Facebook is really tight with who they allow on. If you try to add too many friends or join too many groups, they will find out and try and stop you. The idea of Facebook is to try not to seem like you are trying to market something.
I know this because I started a Facebook account soley for my Arrested Development Blog. I was trying to add a bunch of friends from Arrested Development groups and Facebook was trying to slow me down. I just wanted everyone to join my Arreseted Development group to try and get them to go to my website. What you have to do is engage. Just like any other social media site. But I’m engaging and adding friends so I can engage more. It comes to a point where you have to rely on other people to recommend you and find you.
So is it worth starting a new facebook account – yes. If you don’t mind working at it a little or if you don’t have one at all!
ADsense Challenge Update
What next?
Oh yeah I made some money. Although during the weekend I didn’t spend that much time working on the site. I did add a new Downloads page where I added Arrested Development Wallpaper. I also added some more Adsense Ads, now I have a line of links going across the top of every page. Hopefully this converts well for me. Though out the weekend I have been recieving emails from TweetBeep.com about Arrested Development and have been adding them to my followers. One good non-related Adsense thing that came out of it, I was contacted by a publisher who is promoting a novel written by a former writer and producer on Arrested Development. I recieved a copy of the book and I am going to review it on my site. I am also going to request an interview as well. They also gave me 5 books to give away on my site as a contest. So look out for that.
Here are the results from over the weekend.
What next?
I had a huge increase in readers and I am starting to get excited. I am bringing in the traffic but I am not getting the clicks I want. On friday I am going to try some different ad placements and I’ll let you know how that works out.
Using Facebook to Get Traffic
So to get all this traffic I have been using Twitter. I started a twitter account @thebluths strictly for this website. I post quotes from the show and I also post my blog titles and random links I find about the show. I am slowly getting to use StumbleUpon but it is not as personal as I like. And yesterday I was told by a twitterer to start a facebook profile. So now I have a facebook profile called Matthew Bluth. See it Here
On my Facebook profile I joined a bunch of Arrested Development Groups and even started my own. This is really getting me some good traffic. I suggest trying it. Here are my results from the last two days.
Visit the Adsense Challenge Site: www.arresteddevelopmentblog.com
What next?
