SEM Times

pracho · #1 (**permalink**) 02-26-2006, 11:26 AM

Dear All,

My site (in my signature) is aimed to educated buddying SEM professionals. My idea is to provide value education through:
1.) Providing 'Brief and Relevant' content
2.) Providing 'Simple' content
3.) Give 'Interesting' examples and analogies

I would greatly appreciate to have feedback (criticism is most welcome) from upcoming and expert SEM professionals.

send2paul · #2 (**permalink**) 02-26-2006, 02:30 PM

Hi :)

Your website is a blog in blogger - but I guess you knew that. In that respect, it suffers from a couple of things:

1. Using the "Bowman" template supplied by blogger it is less likely to be "taken seriously", (no matter what the subject), as opposed to having your own "website template" in there.

2. You're trying to "stuff" things into it that you would normally have the ability to integrate correctly into your own website/webpage design. I particularly want to mention: Google Adsense - remove it from the banner to begin with - it looks awful.

I didn't read the content of the blog entries, as I couldn't get passed points 1. & 2. - as I'm sure a lot of other people arriving at your website will have the same difficulty.

I hope that helps a little.

MarcieZoob · #3 (**permalink**) 02-27-2006, 06:32 AM

If this is a serious venture, you need a URL with a stand-alone website. Your blog at Blogger can then be a supplement to that site, not the whole deal.

Your blog looks like nothing more than an income generator from Google ads than something of substance.

promarkweb · #4 (**permalink**) 02-27-2006, 09:39 AM

So, here is some content from your site.

"Now, we have learnt SEO, its time to understand the basic principle of SEO. " What? Huh? Proper english please!

Also, some statements of yours in your SEO are brashly untrue, so quality content is a major factor as well in your hopefull success. In one of your articles, you state that The major factor of a page's rank is from inbound links.

Our main site, gets top listings for many of the products it sells, based purely on in page SEO, since no one outside of our company will post to product pages on our site. I can give you 30-40 pages that get top 10 rankings without anyone linking to them.

Take the comments from the other two posters, then add true and relevant content, and then you might have something to work with.

pracho · #5 (**permalink**) 02-27-2006, 10:31 AM

Thanks. I appreciate straight and valuable comments. I will surely work on the inputs.

Do people suggest me to work on my own site instead of blogger? I thought otherwise; although I've taken a domain name (http://www.semtimes.com). But all my efforts so far (for PR and Directory submission) will go waste?

Awaiting your response.

pracho · #6 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006, 06:43 AM

Also, if I choose to go for hosting on my own domain name, should I use the blogger or design my own site?

Thanks in advance.

send2paul · #7 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006, 03:51 PM

Get your own template in the blog. (Make this the template you use for your website). By doing so, you will strip away the Blogger coding, (to a degree), and also be able to optimise it properly.

Also remember in Blogger - once the article goes into the archive section, there has to be enough keywords in the selected portion of the article you have used in your blog entry to still make that page properly optimised for the right keywords.

In order for this to happen, what I do on my Blogger blogs is to include additional static text below the blog entries, (and on side columns), - which will appear on every page - including the archive pages - to ensure there are enough keywords on the whole archive page, just in case there weren't enough in the blog entry.

And - for all the reasons mentioned above - the same applies if you wish to get the appropriate ads appearing for your Google Adsense.

pracho · #8 (**permalink**) 03-02-2006, 02:03 AM

Thanks Paul but I am still not clear whether I should make my own site or continue on Blogger?

Also, if I make my own site, is it advisable to use Blogger or design on my own?

send2paul · #9 (**permalink**) 03-03-2006, 02:15 AM

It depends whether you want a website, or a blog.

If you want a blog, you could stay with blogger, and optimise the hompage as I suggested. Or, you could register your own domain and use something like Wordpress to create your own blog in your own domain.

If you want a website - you'll need your own domain. You could then still have a blogger blog, (using the template of your website), or use Wordpress etc to have a blog as part of your website.

Does that help a bit to clarify some of the options? :)

janeth · #10 (**permalink**) 03-03-2006, 10:11 AM

You can tell how serious someone is about there blog by how many post they make.

You've made two in the last month and two the month before that.

If your going to use a blog you should try and use it everyday.

send2paul · #11 (**permalink**) 03-03-2006, 03:44 PM

Well, yes, there is that as well....;)

pracho · #12 (**permalink**) 03-05-2006, 11:42 AM

Thanks People. Let me provide you all the information:
1.) I am committed to provide SEM Education
2.) I've no attachment to Website or Blog. Either will work for me as long as it doesn't take too much time and effort on my end.
3.) My major concern is to have my education to be available to larger audience; people should find it through search
4.) I already have a domain name registered (www.semtimes.com) on my name but I've done some work in promoting my existing blog through PR and Directory submission. It has got a PR of 4.

I believe creating my own site; its hosting, maintenance and most important designing will require lot of effort compared to having my own blog (either on service provider like blogger or on my own site (yes i will require hosting and maintenance but designing effort will be largely eliminated.

Please advice.

send2paul · #13 (**permalink**) 03-05-2006, 03:47 PM

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Either will work for me as long as it doesn't take too much time and effort on my end.

Whatever the project is my friend - there is no quick fix.

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I believe creating my own site; its hosting, maintenance and most important designing will require lot of effort compared to having my own blog

- yes it will, perhaps. But it all depends on what you want to do with SEM Times. A blog is a blog - not a website.

If you want to limit your opportunities for website originality, corporate image, marketing etc with SEM Times by using a template blog because there is less design and maintenance to do - then go ahead. But in my opinion, I would take a little time to get a bit more educated about web design - HTML, CSS etc - and then you'll be able to see the advantages of having a website, (as opposed to a blog), in your own SEM Times design.