See that rock, I climbed it!
Now at this point I could bore you to tears with links to poorly framed out of focus photos of ceejay taking great photos, but I won't, the girl has an image to uphold and my unflattering shots don't cut it, instead, see that picture in the top left of this entry? That thing, the rock I mean, is 153m tall, and there's a walking track on it that is described as hard, you need good footwear, don't attempt it if you have a heart condition etc, but me being the hero that I am decided pfff, that thing needs to be climbed.
Ooh, today I don't feel so good, every muscle is screaming every time I move, I swear I lost a few kilo's from sweating my way to top of it. The first half has a nice path with stairs, you'd think that would be easy, except its very deceptive, the stairs are extremely steep, and by the time you're halfway up your calf muscles are ready to explode from heat buildup, the second half of the track is all rock climbing. Sure they stuck a length of wire with posts into the rock so you have something to hold onto, but it gets even steeper, and by the time you're 10m from the top your thigh muscles have exploded, then you're using your arm and chest muscles to pull yourself up the to the summit. [swearing] at the top I was so exhausted I had to just sit for a few minutes before I could even contemplate admiring the view, and yes, my arm muscles had exploded at this point.
We're going to sort through some photos today, and my hope is that ceejay will upload some more, I might do the same myself.
Andreas said,
Tuesday, January 30. 2007 at 01:30 (Reply)
I'm not saying it is a bad thing to do, I'm just trying to learn if you have any good reason for it as it goes against my 'common sense SEO' method. Please explain, and I may learn something useful from it. :)
Carl said,
Tuesday, January 30. 2007 at 07:29 (Reply)
Despite the fact that most of my backlinks point to my base URL, I have found that almost all search engine traffic comes directly to my entry pages, so my site title doesn't seem to actually generate any search engine referrals. In fact if you do a search for any of the keywords in my site title or description my site barely ranks if at all.
I've tried experiments where I've loaded my entry title with significant keywords and left these out of the first couple of paragraphs, and also loading keywords into my entry but not in the title, and I'm consistently finding the entry title has more weighting.
Also, I've found that adsense is heavily weighted to the H1 and less to the entry, although other revenue tools seemed less interested in the H1.
Does that help, or am I very confused and in desperate need of your help? I try to learn from your SEO but without knowing how you do things it isn't always easy.
Andreas said,
Tuesday, January 30. 2007 at 08:05 (Reply)
Maybe I should get that "How I do it"-post written now? It is a pretty common request, and it could perhaps give you some inspiration and a few ideas on things to try out... Let me know what you would want to know more about, and I'll put some extra focus on those details.
Carl said,
Tuesday, January 30. 2007 at 19:05 (Reply)