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.
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!
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:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="Author" content="Yicrosoft Directory by ozwebfx.com" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Yicrosoft Directory, "Yicrosoft Directory"" />
<meta name="Description" content=""Yicrosoft Directory" the ozwebfx entry for the “2008 King Noob SEO” Contest!" />
<meta name="Classification" content="Yicrosoft Directory, "Yicrosoft Directory"" />
<meta name="Language" content="en-au" />
<meta name="Identifier" content="(SCHEME=URI)http://www.the-yicrosoft-directory.com/" />
<meta http-equiv="Creator.CorporateName" content="ambatchdotcom seocontest" />
<meta http-equiv="Creator.Jurisdiction" content="Australia" />
<meta http-equiv="Identifier" content="http://www.the-yicrosoft-directory.com/" />
<meta http-equiv="Language" scheme="RFC1766" content="en-au" />
<meta http-equiv="Publisher" content="Copyright 2008 Yicrosoft Directory" />
<meta name="Rating" content="General" />
<meta name="Creator" content="Yicrosoft Directory" />
<meta name="Creator" content="(SCHEME=URL)http://www.the-yicrosoft-directory.com/" />
<meta name="Publisher" content="ambatchdotcom seocontest" />
<meta name="Rights" content="Copyright 2008 Yicrosoft Directory" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="Revisit-After" content="1 days" />
<title>"Yicrosoft Directory" the ozwebfx entry for the “2008 King Noob SEO” Contest!</title>
Most of which I just copied & pated 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.
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.
"Yicrosoft Directory" SEO Help entry by ozwebfx
