Andrew Nesbitt - The SEO Challenge
So seeing as I’m getting pretty into this whole internet thing now, what with me spending about 18 hours a day on it, I thought it best that I take some time to make a bit of name for myself, or at least get my act together when it comes to promoting myself online.
So one of the first things I’m going to try and do is get myself to the top of a google search for my name: Andrew Nesbitt which is not going to be easy, for one thing I have Wikipedia to beat!
Does anyone have any suggestions how I can go about doing this?
So far I have change the meta data and page titles of Teabass.com to include my name and I’m trying to use my full name when ever I can on the net now including all of my online profiles:
For example there is my LinkedIn Profile: Linkedin.com/in/andrewnesbitt
The Greenvoice Developers page: Greenvoice.com/help/developers
My Greenvoice Profile: Greenvoice.com/users/155-andrew_nez (add me as a friend!)
My ClaimID Profile: Claimid.com/atariboy
Over the past year and a half I’ve left a trail of content and profiles across the net using a load of different names and stuff so I figure it can only be a good thing if i go back a clean them all up and list them on the Teabass.
I’ve also been tagging lots of my content on other sites with “Andrew Nesbitt” such as on Flickr which should hopefully add some google juice to the mix.
Any other suggestions for SEO are all very welcome, plus any link love would be great, may I suggest:
<a href=”http://teabass.com” title=”Andrew Nesbitt’s website, Teabass”>Andrew Nesbitt</a>
I bet you won’t beat Wikipedia!
SEO has alot to do with the number of links to and from pages - and not much to do with META tags any more!
You would be best to make http://www.andrewnesbit.com with a TITLE tag of Andrew Nesbit, then a H1 element at the top of the page with Andrew Nesbit in and then get a shed load of links in an out of the page.
That would be best.
I have done a little bit with SEO, but mainly for Adsense targeting - which I did manage to work out ok, but not perfect.
Taoski on June 20, 2007 1:18 pm
See here too.
Taoski on June 20, 2007 2:39 pm
Hmm…
You sparked my interest. Shwn I do a NES tune, I think I’ll name it Andrew Nesbitt (Or at least just Nesbitt) and take up the competition with you.
Why? Just a weird idea I got. (This is pof course just something I’ll do for fun if I do it, I’ll of course explain the situation and link back to you)
nitro2k01 on June 20, 2007 3:25 pm
Oh yeah, one more thing. You should definitely link back to your blog from your GV profile page.
nitro2k01 on June 20, 2007 3:28 pm
Sounds awesome
Andrew on June 20, 2007 3:29 pm
I just read how getting into the right category on DMOZ’s Open Directory Project can still get you the right exposure and higher rankings.
Oh, and maybe put ‘designed by Andrew Nesbitt’ down here, instead of ’some guy called Andrew’? I hear there’s a few of them around already
Nils on June 20, 2007 9:57 pm
Have a contest. Link to this page and win valuable prizes!!11one! (actually, that would work pretty well, as lon as the link was like -openurl-ANDREW NESBITT-closelink-
Dan on June 23, 2007 2:37 pm