"Yicrosoft Directory" the ozwebfx entry for the “2008 King Noob SEO” Contest!

Yicrosoft Directory

The Yicrosoft Directory is an entrant in the “2008 King Noob SEO” Contest!

The point of the contest is to build a brand spankin’ new site, and at 8pm Central on March 4th, whoever’s site/blog ranks highest for the keyphrase "Yicrosoft Directory", wins all sorts of fabulous stuff, including a grand prize package worth over $700!

I've entered with this domain: the-yicrosoft-directory.com I'll be using this as an exercise in getting a site up & running quickly, at low cost & along the way I'll be sharing with you the steps I'm taking; not only to rank well in the competition but to have a well designed site too.

Don't forget to refresh the page or clear cache/temporary internet files each day to ensure you see the latest content!

My Yicrosoft Directory story so far:

The Fourth Yicrosoft Directory day ...

I have a fiddle about with this template today, it's not looking too bad I think, compared to my third yicrosoft directory page.

I run the code through HTML Validator, a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside the Firefox Browser. I'm really just getting a feel for this template & have decided that for the sNews conversion that I will try to stick as closely to the original idea at first, I'll then release that first as "Yicrosoft Directory Template V1" & at the end of the contest I'll release whatever butchered version I've come up with as "Yicrosoft Directory Template V2"

I had a look in my AWStats & found a link from A free online advertising and text link network called adgridwork, I added it to the right column. I'll test this service out & let you know all about it.

I'm a big fan of sitepoint & a regular buyer of their books so in the left column I put a link to The Search Engine Marketing Kit.

I had an unsolicted email last night from:

"a Delhi-NCR, India based, and leading web services
 company with main

    competency in link building.

    We have a dedicated team of 60 professionals 
to serve you. We build the

    natural quality and theme based links
 as one-way or reciprocals links with

    our manual process."

I had to laugh at the use of their word ETHICAL in their spammy letter!

I fired up Adobe Fireworks CS3 to make a new Yicrosoft Dirctory Logo, It's not quite what I want but I'll get back to it later.

So Tomorrow I'll convert this template for the sNews Content Management System & let you know what else I've done.

The Third Yicrosoft Directory day ...

Today I write about what I've done so far & sit down with pen & paper to think a few things through. I decide that as I only have One Hour a day to work on my Yicrosoft Directory entry that I will use an open source template to get the site going, the Yicrosoft Directory template is this & is available for Free Download

I'm going to put this template on the site tomorrow & then later convert it into an sNews template for public release .. I'm going to be showing you exactly what I do at each step to come up with a unique design from this starting point.

The Second Yicrosoft Directory day ...

I falter already! I have my children to look after, work to do, clients to meet ... things to do places to go .. yada yada yada .. I do manage to tidy up the first page a bit though & here is my second yicrosoft directory page

As you might see I really only added a bit of info about the Yicrosoft Directory Competition & added a few bits & pieces in the header:

Most of which I just copied & pasted from a previous project .. now, lots of people are wondering these days whether Google puts much relevance in Meta tags these days .. I think that we again should look at the horses mouth; Matt Cutts.

The First Yicrosoft Directory day ...

At 8pm Central time in the U.S.A. on February 4th (Monday night), a post went up on SEONoobs.Com announcing the keyphrase "Yicrosoft Directory". At that moment it returned no earch results in Google.

I was a bit slow off the mark in getting started as I had not bothered to check the time difference between Australia, where I'm based with Central time in the U.S.A. :(

I went to my preferred place to register my domain name: babyweb.nameservices.net/domainregistration This site is mainly only used by me to register domain names for myself & just a few customers who don't want the hassle of doing it themselves if I am working on a web design project for them. It's a reseller account from: aitdomains.com & makes me a few bucks only. The reason I use it is because I like to have most of my domains registered at the one place, it just is much easier to manage. A quick search soon told me that my most preferred names had already been quickly snapped up so I settled on: the-yicrosoft-directory.com Google's Matt Cutts recommends dashes or underscores for words in urls, the full nerdy explanation is at: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

The next step was to set up a hosting account for my new Yicrosoft Directory domain name. I resell hosting accounts through my website: ozwebfx My provider for this is WebOnce Technologies who manage their own gear at liquidweb facilities As soon as I had finished setting up the hosting account I checked the URL: http://www.the-yicrosoft-directory.com .. the domain was already live, this is not unusual using the routine I've described but has surprised many customers in the past with such a quick propogation.

So now I have a domain name & a hosting account I fire up Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, I copy & paste from the google search page for "Yicrosoft Directory" the only four results that I see & I have my first yicrosoft directory page

My next step is to add my the-yicrosoft-directory.com to the Google add url page , I then make a quick post on my website: http://ozwebfx.com/blog/yicrosoft-directory/, Another quick post on StumleUpon with the tag yicrosoft-directory & my self allotted hour is up!

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