Here are a few things worth noting. Most them are well known, but hey, unless you do it yourself, it’s no good just knowing about them!

1. Search engines go local. So, it pays to get a .com.au domain name.
2. Setup geo meta tags.
3. Add keywords after the copyright sign at the bottom of the page.
4. Use meaningful file names.
5. Internal linking – this is probably the most important and the most effective.

That’s it! Add some article marketing, post unique articles here and there and you’re done. It’s simple, really.

1. Who decides what websites to include – the site owner or the search engine?
2. If the site owner, how do we tell the location to the big G?
3. If it’s the search engines, what information do they use to work out the location?

Well, a few things come to mind:

1. Geographical hosting is very important. If you site is for Perth, Australia, make sure it’s hosted in Australia.
2. Add geo meta tags.
3. Select location in the webmater’s tools, if it’s a top TLD domain.

I’d like to see how it all pans out.

They system downloads games and these can be previewed and uploaded to the website for all to play. And then, of course, there are ads.

This is a new site, let’s see how it behaves.

Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/index.html is worth checking out.

What works best for you?

A few days ago, ok.. let me try again. And I did. Result? My daily earnings increased by 25%. This is not a joke. This time it works!

The trick it to put those link units in a place where people are actually looking for something to click and making a choice between hitting the “back” button or clicking on a link. Work out where that place is on your web site and put those link units there!

This time I also noticed that it’s possible to customize the colours of the second page (the one that people see when click on the link unit), to match the colours of the link unit itself. Who knows, maybe this helped too.

So, I’m eager to keep an eye on these link units and try it on some of my other sites, to see if them make the same effect.

So, what does it do? Crawl Rate Tracker logs search engines data, recording details of their visit. When Yahoo or Google comes to your site, the plugin records what page they visit when etc. So, after a while, you can have a nice graph like this:

Also, if you’re logged on, there is a small icon under each blog post and if you click on it, it will show stats on when this page was visited by search engines. It is very cool and highly recommended.

I had to remove Technorati and add Yandex instead. For some reason, this particular site is under a close attention from Yandex – the Russian search engine.

So, what happened so far? My main website got indexed by Google, Bing and Yahoo very quick, and the first few months have actually been very good in terms of traffic. Then, disaster strikes. The web site went down in searches quite drastically, and stayed there for about two months. Then, it came back, and then, it went down again.

My suspicion was that some problems were due to a slow vps account that I had (and occasional downtimes that came with it). As you can see at Netcraft, I changed a website hosting provider to a shared host, now it’s their responsibility to maintain the uptime.

So, now I’m focusing on building more content and also have a couple of other sites in the pipeline. I want to try targeting specific keywords and try to sell some of those affiliated products, everybody is so sick about.

So, give me a couple of weeks, I’ll get back on track and will try to document my internet journey more precisely.

GM

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