Posted by James in Well its Geansai Gorm D-Day for want of a better expression and its just under 15 hours to go. What have we learned from the competition so far.
Quite possibly you think that I started this blog to just benefit my Geansai Gorm entry. It wasn’t the case however but it did spur me to get the blog going. I do have plans to market this site more and I honestly don’t think an extremely new blog like this will have that much of an impact on a websites position.
To date I’ve not done that much marketing on my Geansai Gorm entry. Its mainly been powered by about 2 or 3 mentions which all had fairly high impact on the site. The first would be my own personal website I Accept Cookies. The second would be my work website www.forbairt.ie and the third was quite possibly a blog post by Michele over on his website http://www.mneylon.com/blog/.
My personal website wouldn’t really have that much authority I would assume. The second has quite a bit more, being an older domain. The third would probably also be quite authoritative as he tends to generate quite unique and interesting content over the last few years (since 2000 I believe though I’m not positive when he started blogging possibly 2003) (I’ve only followed his blog for the last two years)
What else I did. I included a few signatures on various forums linking to my Geansai Gorm website.
What else … well what I should probably have done was to include links back to my website on all the various blogs I subscribe to. However I didn’t really feel like spamming peoples websites too much for a competition, plus I just feel its kinda wrong.
I also didn’t make PR related posts on various websites which I noticed a few people did. Or link to my own websites on the likes of Wikipedia. This is a no no unless of course you have a non commercial interest in linking onto those sites. ( A recent site I’ve developed is for the Galway City Museum of course I’m going to add this to Wikipedia … why ? because its a public website and the actual public are interesting in knowing about it and its relationship with galway. Will I add my own iacceptcookies website or forbairt media websites ? no because they are of a personal nature and not commercial.
Other things people did or so it would seem .. adding themselves to multiple directories all over the place. Again not something I really wanted to do. Why dilute the index with my crap. Also Task Drop is going to be an actual website (hopefully on december 2nd… though that deadline is a bit unrealeastic for me right now)
I could have generated articles of interest on other websites but not exactly for a search term “Geansai Gorm” nor would I have wanted to.
Anyways I’ll no doubt make another post tomorrow evening or Tuesday on here on the overall results with some link loving being distributed as well.
