Much Ado About Nothing

Not a whole lot to report. I updated my Google and Yahoo sitemaps as well as a adding a few two-way links. When I checked my Google sitemap diagnostics, it showed that a file I moved was turning up a "404 not found" error, which is not a good thing for Google indexing. The file was moved via 301 redirect, and when I checked my .htaccess file, the 301 was coded correctly. To play it safe, I just created the old file with a single link to the new page (as well as a link to my sitemap page and home page, which I place on every page for fluent navigation). This way, if Google isn't redirected by the 301 command, at least it won't turn up a 404, and will be led to it's new address.

I ran all my outbound links through a "fake Page Rank" tool, to ensure that I'm not linking out to any PR 0 sites. Any PR 0 sites I am linking out too are now accompanied by the "no follow" attribute.

Did some more forum posting, dropping my URL a few times. This will be an on-going thing, so nothing new there.

I also changed my meta title tags (again) to be 100% unique. I don't want any of my pages to end up in Google's supplemental index, so I figure this is one way to combat supplemental purgatory....

P.B. Is now turning up 36 in Yahoo for "Boston Website Design." This is good news, but I was hoping it would be a little higher. It's all about the back-link baby! I'll have to "stay the coarse," and be patient.

Still in Google's sandbox. Someday, I'll get out (hopefully sooner than later).

I may have an SEO project coming up for Silver City Bicycles. A keyword needs to be decided upon, and once I dive into the project, I'll keep you updated!