I tried to post a blog post every day for 100 days. I almost succeeded, I posted at least something for 99 days. And in the final, 100th post I list the 52 things I learned during the whole process.
What does a Leeds web developer think about and get up to on a daily basis? Find out in this Journal which is part of a #100blog posts in 100 days challenge.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Aug 19, 2014 | | Comments (2)
I tried to post a blog post every day for 100 days. I almost succeeded, I posted at least something for 99 days. And in the final, 100th post I list the 52 things I learned during the whole process.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 27, 2014 | | Comments (0)
More and more web searches are being done from mobile devices, so your website needs to be adaptive and function on all different screen sizes. And it needs to work well. Many websites designed for desktop viewing have become bloated with code that perform actions such as photo sliders, though this might look good on a desktop, it might not work so well on a mobile device. One tool that can help you ascertain how your site performs is Google's PageSpeed Insights. In this post we look at how some of Onsitenow's pages fared.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 25, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 55: A blogging addiction can damage your website's reputation with the search engines. Is there anything you can do about that?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 24, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 54: Yesterday I talked about one good reason why I shouldn't be posting a blog post every day. Today, I find another good reason to abandon the #100blogs in 100 days challenge. But will I....
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 20, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 50: You may have lots of useful information on your website but do the search engines know what it is about? The chances are that they are using their algorithms to guess. But there is a way to tell them explicitly what your content is, and what it is about. Find out how in this post...
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 19, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 49: In part 4 I looked at what Google's Webmaster guidelines said about images and how my website stood up against those guidelines. Today I'll look at what they say about video, though at present I have no video on the site, that was until today....
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 06, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 36: Partial surrender as I decide I cannot sustain longer articles in this 100-day-post-a-blog-every-day-challenge
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 05, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 35: I test my site against Google's PageSpeed Insight, how did it do...?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jun 04, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 34: Caching is a vital part of making you website run at it's optimal speed. There are lots of different tools you can use in MODX to make sure you have the best caching that matches your website updating activity.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 30, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 29: Images, are different to text, when people search for images the way they scan the results is different to lists of websites, this might be worth looking into...
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 29, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 28: Bash shell script to help you track down all the images on your website that don't have alt tags. Google like's them so get hunting, and get them put in.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 28, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 27: Alt tags, valid html and broken links all get my attention today, what might they reveal, and what changes may I have to make?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 27, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 26: While systematically reviewing my websites's performance, I realise something I have been doing has been impacting the speed of my web pages, what can I do about it?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 26, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 25: The task continues of comparing what way Google suggests that a website should be constructed against how I have constructed mine and seeing if I should make any changes, I should....
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 25, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 24. I start, what I think is going to be a long process, comparing my website with Google's Webmaster Guidelines, and seeing what I might have to change to improve it's performance in the search engine rankings.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 24, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 23. The post mortem continues as I look the the importance of speed on a websites ranking.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 23, 2014 | | Comments (2)
Day 22. Today I started a post mortem into the drop in my rankings since I started blogging, are they really that bas!?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 21, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 20. So I have been blogging for 20 days none stop. Is it going to help my Google ranking? You would have thought so wouldn't you.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 11, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Day 10. Time to look at the data. What progress are we making in our attempt to climb up Google's search results? Let's see...
This is an experiment to see what effect posting a blog post every day for 100 days will have on this website's Google ranking.
If you would like to receive a full search engine optimisation (SEO) report on the results of this experiment and the techniques I used at the end of 100 days then then tough, there is not one.