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This layout was based, in large part, on lessons I learned here. Specifically the lessons to do with accessibility, CSS, and making the site more visible to SEs through "on page" factors.
It was essentially six months of devouring information available on this site, a month and a half of re-design, and then deployment.
In the week and a half since the re-launch:
Traffic has more than doubled.
SE results have gone from being not even on the radar, to, respectively:
Floating between top 15 to top 40 in Google for my chosen two keywords.
Top 50 in Yahoo.
And I just went and looked at MSN Beta, and for my chosen 2 keywords - my "Hobby Site" was the #1 result.
This in a very heavily populated keyword phrase (25million results in google), with some very big players, a phrase that always draws a significant number of "sponsored results" in all the SEs.
And it's not because I'm the sharpest tack in the box. It's just because I took the time to read what the experienced webmasters here had to say, and took notes.
So.... Thanks guys. You just made the holidays that much better for me.
and no, I'm not trying to kiss-up. I could really care less what people here think of me. It's all about the results.
The main factor in our non-profit site doing so well is lessons learned here.
I just started our second site, a fund-raising branch of our non-profit org. I'm doing it carefully, and more wisely, than the first one, using info picked-up at WW.
Respect to Brett, the Mods, and all of the webmasters who frequent this place.
And I just went and looked at MSN Beta, and for my chosen 2 keywords - my "Hobby Site" was the #1 result.This in a very heavily populated keyword phrase (25million results in google), with some very big players, a phrase that always draws a significant number of "sponsored results" in all the SEs.
From the teacher emerges the pupil - from the pupil emerges the teacher...
:-)
Wonderful; just wonderful!
Syzygy
