Search engines want the best, most relevant websites to appear on their results pages for any particular query. Trust is important here – the more trust you can establish with search engines, the easier it will be for your site to gain high rankings.
When it comes to choosing a name for your band, it makes sense to avoid creating competition for yourself. The Internet is a great research tool, particularly for finding out if and where particular phrases are currently in use…
Never underestimate the value of a good name – this applies to domain names even more than it does to band names. The Internet is built on words, and words lead people to where they want to go (whether they know it or not). There are a lot of websites where anyone can go and […]
Keyword selection is the first step in creating findable content on the Web (well, one of the first steps, at any rate). Many people are unaware of its importance, but choosing the right keywords can have an enormous impact on your visitor numbers. Whether you’re targeting search engines or social media, the specific phrases you […]
Although continually improving, WordPress is not particularly search-engine-friendly in its default configuration – there are a couple of SEO tweaks you really need to apply before you start using it. First of all, you should decide what your permalink structure will be. Permalinks are ‘permanent links’ to pages and posts that you write, and they […]
Before getting into SEO, you might ask: why do I need to optimise my site anyway? If I write content, won’t the search engines spider it automatically? Well, perhaps – but there’s a huge difference between being indexed and being found. For example, when someone enters a phrase in a search engine, it’s unlikely that […]
Here’s a list of some places where you can get yourself a blog and/or post your own content online (in no particular order). If you want to set up a site quickly, these might be an ideal option, as you don’t need any Web design or HTML knowledge to get started here.
If you’re new to the world of website creation, then the easiest way to get yourself online is with a blog. There are a lot of sites where you can get a blog; I prefer WordPress because it’s free, versatile and there are loads of useful plugins available for it.
If you want to promote yourself as an artist nowadays, you need to have a presence on the Web. Simply having a MySpace page or even a dedicated website isn’t enough – you need to know how to effectively promote yourself online, how to drive traffic to your site, how to be found. Linkdisco will […]
