Search for SEO

It's blogging time again. As far as my journey is concerned, it is pretty much status quo. Today I managed to disable the ads that my autoresponder runs in the click-to-comfirm page. Since internet marketing is all about exposure, everybody will try to squeeze in ads wherever possible at the cheapest cost. I am equally guilty as this blog is also an example! Wait till I learn how to embed links; I will then scatter them all over the post.

Well, today I learn that having a web page or a blog published does not get it listed automatically in the search engines. At least not immediately, as I was told that it could take months before you are discovered. Now I know why those web searchers are called crawlers (or are they spiders? Whatever.) OK, there are millions and millions of web pages....... I searched in Google, I searched in Yahoo, I searched in MSN (all using my full address) and could not find my web site or my blog. What a damper.

So I e-mailed for support and got an almost instant reply (about one hour actually, still pretty good.). I need to learn about keywords and search engine guidelines. So this is what they call SEO or Search Engine Optimisation and I was given a long lists of web links for reference in order to understand this art of getting yourself highly ranked in the search engines. Of course, for a fee, this could be all done for you with your web site professionally optimised. The choice is really yours.

Since I did not want to part with my hard earned cash, I decided to do it myself. But first I must go through the mountain of literature on this subject that is available free online. Who knows, after this, I may be able to charge for SEO services and add another item in my line of net business. Wish me luck.

Ronald Kwok
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