SEO process blogs for beginners / newbies

I’m teaching myself Flash CS3. So far it’s great. I learned to do some Flash animations before, but I never kept practicing,  so I forgot how. Now I started all over, and I’m getting to the good parts.

I’m actually thinking of building a mostly Flash website and optimize it. See how SEO and Flash really works. I was thinking of taking a drawing class too. Cuz for now, I can only draw stick people. It’s a good thing because I’ll be expanding my reach, instead of just sticking to search engine optimization.

I’ve recently started a journey, to see if I can get a better idea of how the search engines rank pages. I’m basically comparing the position of different search terms in the different engines. I mean I have already started to see differences, for instance, why would one site show up number 1 on Google and number 11 on Yahoo!? I think it all has to do with the search engine’s ranking algorithm - the secret that so many of us lust after. I think this is gonna require ongoing research. Sometimes it seems so futile and I’m not expecting to have the complete ranking algorithms figured out (that might beee tooo eaasy, wouldn’t it?), but I think it is possible to notice subtle differences if one just keeps his eye on the prize.

Technorati Tags: how search engines index pages, ranking algorithm

I recently had a problem with my wordpress permalink.
My blogs wouldn’t show up. On my home page, all my blogs appeared (10 posts per page), with all the links on the side menu etc. But as soon as I clicked on any link on my home page, or any blog heading to see that blog on a page by itself, the page was completely BLANK. NOTHING appeared. I viewed the page source and nothing. It’s like the page didn’t exist at all.

I didn’t understand why this was happening, because I posted my latest blog last week, and my blog rss feed URL and all my other blogs were showing up when I clicked the heading.

Luckily, I got help from the Wordpress support forum. I was really pleased. Basically what I did was reset my Wordpress permalink structure to default. I checked the page  and the blogs were showing up again. I put back my custom permalink structure just to make sure all wasn’t lost and this time, everything was still fine.

Wew! Obviously this could have really screwed up my SEO efforts. Let’s say someone bookmarked one (or many) of my blogs or some blogs had been indexed by the search engines. I would have been screwed if my custom  permalink structure didn’t work because that would have meant that the URL didn’t exist anymore. Someone goes to the link of one of my blogs and sees blank.