Getting Found
October 9, 2006
“If you build it, he will come.”
~Field of Dreams(1989)
Having a website is one thing. Getting people to visit is another. Building my first website, involved a huge learning curve. I had known for a long time I wanted to build myself a website. It did not become a reality until much later. Once I had it somewhat the way I wanted it, I realized my work had just begun. Action needed to be taken to ensure someone besides myself would see it.
After all, I had spent a tremendous amount of time teaching myself code, optimizing images, and learning layout. How was I going to get people to visit? So the research began. Finding out how to market a website became my new obsession. All of this was new to me. Submitting to search engines, what to use as keywords, meta tags, site maps, link popularity, page rank … a never ending stream.
One could never profess to know everything. So much to learn and the learning never ends. Rapid change continues to occur, requiring ongoing work, to ensure your presence on the web. Here are some resources for you to check out if you would like to read up on what is involved. Some excellent tools here:
November 24, 2006 at 12:14 am
I liked your way of posting beginning with a common icon. I love it and I am thinking of adopting it in my own wordpress site. Hope its fine with you. And by the way, nice articles! Cheers!
November 25, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Thank you dimaks … go for it Your own Icon of course)
. Thanks for asking, and thanks for visiting.
December 13, 2006 at 1:25 pm
I don’t want to sound picky…..but wasn’t it “if you build it, THEY will come”?
December 13, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Actually I thought that was what it was too. I would have liked it better if it had been. LOL.
“The movie’s line “If you build it, he will come.” was voted as the #39 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/trivia