In the midst of all the fretting about the local government I’ve been subjecting myself to in the past few months, would you believe I’ve managed to redesign the whole of Go Baguio!, except for the Baguio Directory pages, which will have a new look within the week? (more…)
I started this blog with the intention of adding articles and features here instead of at Go Baguio!. What I have been doing is linking up the posts here at the bottom of every page there but somehow, the site visitors tend to stay within the Go Baguio! website instead of moseying on down to over here (I know this because there’s a pretty huge disparity in stats).
This is my therapy: site design. For some folks, it’s blogging their thoughts and feelings. For me, it’s figuring out how to fit all information into a page, how to rank higher in the search engines, adding content. For some folks, code is poetry, so they probably are in their 20’s. For someone like me, who was sent to typing class (figure out my age), code is a mystery just waiting to be solved.
Am so happy. This Go Baguio! webmaster is proud to announce that her Go Dumaguete! website debuted today at Google at search position no. 44 of about 723,000 for top keyword “dumaguete” and no. 31 of 562,000 for “dumaguete city.” It was crawled by Yahoo! a few days after publication mid January but I had a harder time getting it into Google. And to think, Yahoo charges for site submission. (see comments below). It could not be found on Google yesterday at all. And I know they re-index every Tuesday at 4:00 pm Philippine time. Next job, to inch slowly to page 1.
The website is on trial run, has about 14 pages published, and is taking longer to complete than I estimated originally because it seems that it will be a bigger website than Go Baguio! even.
So what is my formula for getting found by the crawlers?
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