Aleeya dotNet

Lately, it seems the focus of a lot of my work on this site has been centered around Search Engine Optimization. More than anything, the challenge to me for my own site has been one I have set. My goal is to have a whole site that has all of the content HTML, XML, and CSS validated. With the code itself actually being right, I can focus on other areas of website that can improve search engine ratings. The better the site is rated in a search engine will help improve the amount of traffic viewing the site.

Although this website is just a personal Blog based on things I enjoy doing - and a place for me to keep lists of things (such as DVDs and Books I own) - it is also a place for me to have a playground and learn. By learning how websites are optimized for search engines, and by learning how search engines work, I can learn more about what all goes on behind the scenes of what we all see on the web.

Previously, on the Old Aleeya.net, I used PHP-NUKE for the CMS (Content Management System) for the organization of the site. Although I had a great deal of content on there, I have always had a feeling that the Google page rank of 4/10 came from the fact that the PHP-NUKE theme that I had used was far from Search Engine Optimized. The HTML code for it was very poor. Nothing was able to be validated HTML wise. That was originally what started my interest in SEO.

With the redesign of this site and the addition of GirlGeekette dotNet, I have finally decided to persue the subject of Search Engine Optimization. I have the chance to take the domain Aleeya.net and the new domain of GirlGeekette and play with different ideas and experiments.

The baseline I have to start with is the Aleeya.net domain only being a 4/10 on Google’s Page Rank and GirlGeekette being a 6/10. I plan on seeing how I can improve these rankings as well as seeing how the effects are seen in search engines. Although there has been a lot of controversy over Google’s Page rank among web designers, it will only be used for a comparison on this site - not the only criteria I use to determine how the sites are doing in the search engines.

I will be creating a new category about SEO and I will follow along with what I see and do as well as the steps I take for optimization.