-
We’re on a little detour from our trip – a month spent at Martin’s parent’s home in Northern Sweden – which means two things: home cooked food and free, limitless internet.
So, I’m eating all the stodgy food I can fit in while finally getting around to back-end work on the website. First up: updating our Links Page. A close second on the to-do list is admitting that it’s taken way too much time to realize how important linking is. The early version of our site didn’t even have a links page – that’s how little importance I placed on it. You know how many people came to our site then? One – my mom.
After months of diligent writing work (and hard travel, I might add) with no real traffic to speak of, I finally sat down to figure out what the issue was. Well, if it wasn’t the much ignored detail: the links! Those darn little things were part of the problem. I realized that search engines, such as our beloved behemoth Google, ranks pages based in part by how many other sites link to it. The more links – the more legitimate (and therefore higher that website will be on their list) a site will be in a search. Ah ha! So those links are important.
Yes, most of you who haven’t had their head stuck in the mud like yours truly knew this already. Well, I didn’t – but I do now. The result: traffic! So, I sit down every month or so and plug away at other travel blogs – reading, learning and linking away.
My next move is creating a presence on Twitter. Yes, I know I’m late in the game on this one, too. Sadly, I’ve known that tweeting was important all along but have completely ignored it. I read a Wired article before we left arguing that blogging was a dying art; that Twitter was the new rage. Did I pay attention to this advice? Nope. I didn’t even finish the article. Here is what I know now: We should have been tweeting all along. To date we’ve written nearly 750 entries during our year on the road. That’s a whole lot of information we could have been sharing but there’s no time like the present, right!
I’ve logged into our Twitter account over the past few days and am, well, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. So, in an attempt to dive in head first, I’m posting this entry to our Twitter account to see if anyone has advice for me. Everyone started from where I’m sitting right now, right? Ignorant, but with the desire to learn (and learn fast – since that seems to be the MO in Twitterland).
If you hook me up with a tip I’ll write something awful nice about you. Hey, I may even figure out how to tweet it
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
This entry was posted on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 12:49 am and is filed under Sweden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
-
http://www.vagabondinglife.com Greg
-
http://www.vagabondinglife.com Greg
-
http://www.toddswanderings.com Todd
-
http://www.toddswanderings.com Todd
-
Jaime
-
Jaime
-
http://www.theroadforks.com Akila
-
http://www.theroadforks.com Akila
-
http://www.livingthedreamrtw.com Jeremy
-
http://www.livingthedreamrtw.com Jeremy
-
http://www.seatsofourpants.com The Big Bad Admin
-
http://www.seatsofourpants.com The Big Bad Admin
-
http://www.seatsofourpants.com The Big Bad Admin
-
http://www.seatsofourpants.com The Big Bad Admin
-
http://www.primerealadstate.com/pras_sa_pak.html the best traffic exchange
About Us
You know the saying, “to fly by the seat of your pants?” Well, that's been our philosophy for most of our adult lives – before and after meeting, falling in love and marrying. We're now taking that idea on an extended round-the-world trip. Follow us as we share the good, the bad and the downright nasty of life on the road.
-
