Avoid the Google sandbox with WordPress, Delicious and Twitter
June 4, 2007
Whether or not the Google sandbox exists - and that is a debate which has rumbled around the blogosphere for a while - there is no doubt that most new websites struggle to get Google’s attention within the first few months of their existence.
As regular readers know, I recently launched the Petra Blog for visitors to Jordan and, though I didn’t expect immediate results, I wasn’t content to twiddle my thumbs waiting for it to pop up on Google’s radar some time next Christmas.
The answer to getting noticed, social media fans won’t be surprised to know, lay in using WordPress as the blogging platform with as many search engine friendly plug-ins as I could muster as well as establishing the blog’s presence on Delicious and Twitter and reaching out to Flickr users with an interest in Jordan.
As a result, little more than ten days after it was properly launched - and while I lay on my death bed with flu, barely able to move a mouse - the Petra Blog started appearing in Google search results and I was a happy bunny.
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My experience showed me that if you open a new website that uses wordpress as a blog platform and if you keep the default post that wordpress creates after during installation (postname being “HELLO WORLD”) it won’t help you to get out of the sandbox!
My experience showed me that if you open a new website that uses wordpress as a blog platform and if you keep the default post that wordpress creates after during installation (postname being “HELLO WORLD”) it won’t help you to get out of the sandbox!
Interesting! - that made me check back to my own first post on this blog in May 2005. Phew
http://www.thetravelprblog.com/2005/05/17/hell-is-a-freshly-minted-press-release/
Interesting! - that made me check back to my own first post on this blog in May 2005. Phew
http://www.thetravelprblog.com/2005/05/17/hell-...
Argh that Sandbox! It exists, in that Travel Rants spent 12 months languishing in the pits of the Google data centres, but since then it’s roared back.
My advice for anyone whose creating a new blog [or site] is to concentrate on content, and learning the basics of SEO, and implement that on to your blog or site.
Write unique interesting content and people will link to it, and by the time the filtering has gone, then you’ll be flying up the rankings.
It’s also important to build up a readerbase, network with other blogs [like I'm doing here] and you’ll be amazed how successful your blog can become.
Argh that Sandbox! It exists, in that Travel Rants spent 12 months languishing in the pits of the Google data centres, but since then it’s roared back.
My advice for anyone whose creating a new blog [or site] is to concentrate on content, and learning the basics of SEO, and implement that on to your blog or site.
Write unique interesting content and people will link to it, and by the time the filtering has gone, then you’ll be flying up the rankings.
It’s also important to build up a readerbase, network with other blogs [like I'm doing here] and you’ll be amazed how successful your blog can become.