Purple Widget – An SEO Experiment

Another slight detour from widgets – purple ones, green widgets and SEO.  But not completely off track this time.  A bit about personalized marketing and e-mails.
Every morningwhen I wake up one of the first things I do is pick up my smartphone (currently a T-Mobile G1, previously a Blackberry Curve, before that a Palm Treo) [...]

Although Purple Widget still ranks #1 on Google for the search term “purple widget” and #19 for “SEO Experiment” as well as #16 (with no extra SEO effort for that page specifically yet) for “green widget” I admit I’ve been a bit lax on keeping fresh new content on this site.  As I’ve pointed out [...]

What happens when your SEO finally starts to work?
You’ve been creating great content and fresh content for several months now.  You’ve been building links and all your page titles are keyword research driven and page focused.  And maybe you’ve seen some small increases in traffic and better rankings.  But are you ready when your SEO [...]

Maybe I should be paying closer attention to the road when I drive but seeing a common irritant once again this morning as I completed the final 1/4 mile of my drive to the office put another SEO analogy in my head and how could I resist putting it on Purple Widget.
First, what happens at [...]

So I’m driving to work again today and as I merge from I-435 to I-70 (about 1/3 the way to the office) I see a Kansas state trooper will now be behind me on I-70.  So my normal driving speed of 75-80 mph will be reduced today to the neighborhood  of 70 mph (the speed limit on [...]

So I’m driving to work this morning and I notice (because I’m always on the lookout for such things) a state trooper sitting on the side of the highway with his lights flashing as if he had someone pulled over.  Since troopers are often like deer, there’s usually more than one I was backing off [...]

One of the reasons for my purple widget SEO experiment was to gain more knowledge about blogs and how they worked and they performed in search engines.  I had a bit of an idea about both but sometimes I learn better by doing (and sometimes I learn by getting punched in the head over and [...]

A corporate blog, or any blog related to your website – no matter the subject can be a great tool for your website and your business.  In fact, somewhat like purple widget, it can BE your business.
But no matter what you’re using your blog for, don’t neglect it!  Don’t do what I’ve done, stop posting [...]

Interesting happenings the past few days.  On Oct 3rd I reported that Google had all 16 of our pages indexed, a few days later they had just 1 and now they have 4.  Odd.  I’ll continue to monitor our indexing.

Randfish a very well known name in the SEO world, has written an article at his site SEOmoz that talks about what my site, Purple Widget is exploring.  How long does it take to get ranked?  Bottom line, it takes time.  He points about that you can get ranked more quickly for less meaningful term – [...]