My knitting blog predates google. I learned the term SEO when someone posted a comment at my site suggesting she could help me reorganize my blog to gain SEO. I had to look it up, read a bit, and realized my blog probably already had the best darn SEO for actual search terms of any knitting blog.
How did I get the great SEO: I had been writing very specific "how to knit" entries.
I no longer have the best SEO on knitting terms because since that time, about.com others started to do the same thing. Ah well.... No big loss because knitting isn't a huge revenue market.
Lucia
· 2 years ago
My knitting blog predates google. I learned the term SEO when someone posted a comment at my site suggesting she could help me reorganize my blog to gain SEO. I had to look it up, read a bit, and realized my blog probably already had the best darn SEO for actual search terms of any knitting blog.
How did I get the great SEO: I had been writing very specific "how to knit" entries.
I no longer have the best SEO on knitting terms because since that time, about.com others started to do the same thing. Ah well.... No big loss because knitting isn't a huge revenue market.
Cornwall
· 2 years ago
I'm jealous of people who have been online so long.
When I started out I changed my sleeping patterns as there was a service that offered free online sufing and I'm a cheap git. So from 6pm to 7am I was online.
Actually the only thing stopping me being online until the early hours is a family life.
How old is your oldest domain Andy? Mine is 1998.
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
I was mainly using the Cix service, fairly lightly in 1992, and then I moved to Poland in 1993 and I was still "blinking" for email correspondence, which was increasing heavily. I blinked every hour for about 1 minute of connection time.
Cix wasn't really Internet, though they did have a Lynx browser gateway.
In 1994 I started using it very heavily in compiling a CD-ROM for the Amiga.
From what I can remember, we published that CD at the end of 1994 / beginning of 1995.
Archive.org doesn't go back far enough for my first real website, but from my hazy memory it would have had to have been live in the middle of 1996 because I was already helping Techland a little in 1995 and throughout 1996, though mainly with acquisitions (e.g. we distributed Quake in Poland in 1996 - that was a coup)
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techlandsoft.com" rel="nofollow">Archive.org for Techlandsoft Domain</img>
Cornwall
· 2 years ago
I'm jealous of people who have been online so long.
When I started out I changed my sleeping patterns as there was a service that offered free online sufing and I'm a cheap git. So from 6pm to 7am I was online.
Actually the only thing stopping me being online until the early hours is a family life.
How old is your oldest domain Andy? Mine is 1998.
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
I was mainly using the Cix service, fairly lightly in 1992, and then I moved to Poland in 1993 and I was still "blinking" for email correspondence, which was increasing heavily. I blinked every hour for about 1 minute of connection time.
Cix wasn't really Internet, though they did have a Lynx browser gateway.
In 1994 I started using it very heavily in compiling a CD-ROM for the Amiga.
From what I can remember, we published that CD at the end of 1994 / beginning of 1995.
Archive.org doesn't go back far enough for my first real website, but from my hazy memory it would have had to have been live in the middle of 1996 because I was already helping Techland a little in 1995 and throughout 1996, though mainly with acquisitions (e.g. we distributed Quake in Poland in 1996 - that was a coup)
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techlandsoft.com" rel="nofollow">Archive.org for Techlandsoft Domain</img>
Jadehat
· 2 years ago
I *do* not predate Google. I've made my first site when Google wasn't a #1 (or #2) search engine yet, in 1999, but it *was* there, it already existed.
Jadehat
· 2 years ago
I *do* not predate Google. I've made my first site when Google wasn't a #1 (or #2) search engine yet, in 1999, but it *was* there, it already existed.
Franck Silvestre
· 2 years ago
I also have a top ranking site for the term: "affiliate marketing".
I found a good recipe for getting top rankings, it's highly effective.
Franck Silvestre
· 2 years ago
I also have a top ranking site for the term: "affiliate marketing".
I found a good recipe for getting top rankings, it's highly effective.
Linda - Drupal Design
· 2 years ago
My first #1 for a main targeted keyword (instead of some long string that I'm sure I might have been getting traffic for once in a lifetime) was for "social media blog." I definitely don't predate google! I was lucky enough to get on the z-list meme shortly after I launched the blog and rode that wave and in 30 days, boom #1. Thanks so much to the guy that added me, ha ha.
Linda - Drupal Design
· 2 years ago
My first #1 for a main targeted keyword (instead of some long string that I'm sure I might have been getting traffic for once in a lifetime) was for "social media blog." I definitely don't predate google! I was lucky enough to get on the z-list meme shortly after I launched the blog and rode that wave and in 30 days, boom #1. Thanks so much to the guy that added me, ha ha.
Fitness guy
· 2 years ago
Ok, i admit it....the jpegs on my ftp site were indexed by Archie in 1992 **sigh**
Fitness guy
· 2 years ago
Ok, i admit it....the jpegs on my ftp site were indexed by Archie in 1992 **sigh**
Bill Cooke
· 2 years ago
Hi Andy, I'm impressed as I've never read a blogger whose had a presence on the net for so long.
I've been creating sites on off for around 4 years, mainly off. A few years ago I was making some money with affiliate sites but the traffic eventually fell away. I guess for every succesful site there's thousands that don't make it.
I'm now tring my hand at blogging which I'm hoping is the recipe for success. I'm genuinely enjoying the experience even though I get little traffic and it seems like an uphill battle (especially when I see spam sites ranking in google.)
I'm determined to stick with it and sites like this show me what is possible (I'm assuming you gets lots of visitors judging by the number of comments)
Keep up the good work, Bill.
Bill Cooke
· 2 years ago
Hi Andy, I'm impressed as I've never read a blogger whose had a presence on the net for so long.
I've been creating sites on off for around 4 years, mainly off. A few years ago I was making some money with affiliate sites but the traffic eventually fell away. I guess for every succesful site there's thousands that don't make it.
I'm now tring my hand at blogging which I'm hoping is the recipe for success. I'm genuinely enjoying the experience even though I get little traffic and it seems like an uphill battle (especially when I see spam sites ranking in google.)
I'm determined to stick with it and sites like this show me what is possible (I'm assuming you gets lots of visitors judging by the number of comments)
Keep up the good work, Bill.
Hunter Jackson
· 1 year ago
heck, my life barely predates google. looking to finally getting to number 1 for my key terms.
Hunter Jackson
· 1 year ago
heck, my life barely predates google. looking to finally getting to number 1 for my key terms.
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How did I get the great SEO: I had been writing very specific "how to knit" entries.
I no longer have the best SEO on knitting terms because since that time, about.com others started to do the same thing. Ah well.... No big loss because knitting isn't a huge revenue market.
How did I get the great SEO: I had been writing very specific "how to knit" entries.
I no longer have the best SEO on knitting terms because since that time, about.com others started to do the same thing. Ah well.... No big loss because knitting isn't a huge revenue market.
When I started out I changed my sleeping patterns as there was a service that offered free online sufing and I'm a cheap git. So from 6pm to 7am I was online.
Actually the only thing stopping me being online until the early hours is a family life.
How old is your oldest domain Andy? Mine is 1998.
Cix wasn't really Internet, though they did have a Lynx browser gateway.
In 1994 I started using it very heavily in compiling a CD-ROM for the Amiga.
<img src="http://andybeard.eu/wp-content/uploads/cdpl1.png" alt="CDPL1">
From what I can remember, we published that CD at the end of 1994 / beginning of 1995.
Archive.org doesn't go back far enough for my first real website, but from my hazy memory it would have had to have been live in the middle of 1996 because I was already helping Techland a little in 1995 and throughout 1996, though mainly with acquisitions (e.g. we distributed Quake in Poland in 1996 - that was a coup)
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techlandsoft.com" rel="nofollow">Archive.org for Techlandsoft Domain</img>
When I started out I changed my sleeping patterns as there was a service that offered free online sufing and I'm a cheap git. So from 6pm to 7am I was online.
Actually the only thing stopping me being online until the early hours is a family life.
How old is your oldest domain Andy? Mine is 1998.
Cix wasn't really Internet, though they did have a Lynx browser gateway.
In 1994 I started using it very heavily in compiling a CD-ROM for the Amiga.
<img src="http://andybeard.eu/wp-content/uploads/cdpl1.png" alt="CDPL1">
From what I can remember, we published that CD at the end of 1994 / beginning of 1995.
Archive.org doesn't go back far enough for my first real website, but from my hazy memory it would have had to have been live in the middle of 1996 because I was already helping Techland a little in 1995 and throughout 1996, though mainly with acquisitions (e.g. we distributed Quake in Poland in 1996 - that was a coup)
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techlandsoft.com" rel="nofollow">Archive.org for Techlandsoft Domain</img>
I found a good recipe for getting top rankings, it's highly effective.
I found a good recipe for getting top rankings, it's highly effective.
I'm impressed as I've never read a blogger whose had a presence on the net for so long.
I've been creating sites on off for around 4 years, mainly off. A few years ago I was making some money with affiliate sites but the traffic eventually fell away. I guess for every succesful site there's thousands that don't make it.
I'm now tring my hand at blogging which I'm hoping is the recipe for success. I'm genuinely enjoying the experience even though I get little traffic and it seems like an uphill battle (especially when I see spam sites ranking in google.)
I'm determined to stick with it and sites like this show me what is possible (I'm assuming you gets lots of visitors judging by the number of comments)
Keep up the good work,
Bill.
I'm impressed as I've never read a blogger whose had a presence on the net for so long.
I've been creating sites on off for around 4 years, mainly off. A few years ago I was making some money with affiliate sites but the traffic eventually fell away. I guess for every succesful site there's thousands that don't make it.
I'm now tring my hand at blogging which I'm hoping is the recipe for success. I'm genuinely enjoying the experience even though I get little traffic and it seems like an uphill battle (especially when I see spam sites ranking in google.)
I'm determined to stick with it and sites like this show me what is possible (I'm assuming you gets lots of visitors judging by the number of comments)
Keep up the good work,
Bill.