Welcome to My Creations

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Stephen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:34:06 +0000

My site, “mycreations.com” should be on the first page of google when someone types in the keyword “my creations.” For the past couple of days have been optimizing mycreations.com so that I can be on the first page of google. Today all my hard work paid off! I manage to get mycreations.com on the first page of google with these simple steps:

http://www.google.com/analytics – Google Analytics helps you monitor your site’s traffic. This is a great tool to use to see who comes and goes on your site. This way you can have an idea of what people are doing and searching for on the web to come to your site. Google Analytics is very thorough and very detail to what type of activities that occurs on your site.
http://www.google.com/webmasters – Google Webmasters helps you optimize and teaches the rules and regulations to stay within when adding your site to google’s search engine. This tool is the key part of getting your site on google.
http://www.google.com/addurl- This tool is very simple just go to that url and add your site with a small description.
http://websitegrader.com – Websitegrader I found on the web. Here you can enter your domain name hobspot.com will go through your site and pick out the things that are good and bad for your site’s SEO. I find this very helpful!

Later today or this weekend I’m going to write a detail blog on how to set up your site for SEO, using the sites I mentioned above.

My Business Cards

Stephen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:27 +0000

So in order to get the ball rolling on mycreations.com I’ll need some business cards… why? because I never had any! and it just plain suck not having any when you run into a potential client! I’ll post up what I have so far…

Nothing spectacular here, just very simple. I’m going to print these today…

Magento

Stephen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:36:37 +0000

I’ve always wanted to get into the whole, “build a site with an e-commerce solution” thing… At first I started with a wordpress plugin called “WordPress e-Commerce” This is a great plugin for small business who are just looking to put up a couple of products for sale. I have not used this plugin to its fullest potential yet, but, I do not think it will be practical for a much large scale inventory. Thats where Magento comes in. I just started to read up on Magento and even began work on a prototype shopping cart. So far its very simple to put together but has a strict learning curve.

I’ll write more about magento later in the coming weeks… once I have something to show for it.