My SEO Venture Website Has Been Launched!

www.snowmanornaments.org went live as of today!  I was very excited to get it online but it took a lot of time and work.  I have hosted my website on Godaddy.com primarily because the hosting account I already had allowed multiple domains to be hosted on one account and had unlimited bandwidth and disk storage.  This is important to me to keep my expenses down on the SEO venture.

Now my site is out there live on the web but no one knows about it.  The major search engines haven't indexed it yet and I understand that it may be up to a week before Google gets to it.  So, unless I give people the URL so they can access it directly or they stumble upon it themselves, traffic will be minimal for some time.  Unfortunately, traffic is what I want so I need to find ways to drive traffic to it.  This is the other half of SEO.

In my last posting I blogged about appying SEO techniques to the website itself.  This is also called 'on page SEO'.  The other part of SEO is called 'off page SEO' and it entails techniques to publicize my website elsewhere on the web.  These techniques include such things as backlinks on other site, social booksmarking, social networking, webrings, blogging and more.  I will discuss these in my next posting.