Are you a webmaster looking to improve your search engine marketing skills to provide additional services to your clients? Or perhaps you are interested in learning more about how to build a search-engine friendly website to help your clients improve their search engine ranking? If you want to increase your skills and become a better webmaster, you need to attend the search engine marketing training workshops at SES San Francisco on August 20.

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Darren from problogger.net is having a community writing project where a his readers are writing either a reflection or forecast about their business and net adventures.

I’m choosing to do a reflection -

I started on the net around 2 years ago. I was in a counter strike clan that needed a website design to be allowed enter a competition. So I was “chose” to make the site. It was a basic html layout complete with 0 pictures. It was about as basic as this

Then along the way I ran into DigitalPoint forums which has educated me and helped me understand online trading and business. Being a blogger who reads the blogger part of DigitalPoint, I ran into many people referring people to Problogger.net as the articles are helpful. So after reading Darren’s blog, I decided to make my own Webmaster/SEO/Blogging blog. One thing Darren’s taught me is, it’s not how good your blog is against other blogs, it’s how useful your blog is to your readers. My readers are not Matt Cutt styled readers who are interested in advance SEO, they are just bloggers who know limited stuff and are trying to start out. So back to the story, I made my blog 2 months ago and have done most things Darren suggests. So I’m taking part in this community project which me thinks is just a big link bait. But that’s how my net travels have been over the last year..

There’s been a new bot visiting my site lately. I think it might be a bot Google’s using for the next Pagerank update. It will be 3-4 weeks before we know if it’s right or not. Check out your site and see if there’s been a new Search Engine Bot, that’s visitored your site lately. Do this buy logging into awstats then look down the page until you see info about “Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25) ”

“Only Time will tell”

One this many Bloggers and Site owners do are make the wrong choices with their Blog thinking it’s for the better. I’m going to talk about some of the main mistakes many people do.

- Playing around with your robots.txt file. If you edit your robots.txt file in the wrong way or delete something that’s needed, your site could face a penalty or even a ban. So it’s best to seek good advice.

- Using the wrong SEO methods in general. If you’re a more advance webmaster you might try some black hat methods or “darker” methods. These are not always “bad” things but they can get your site penalized or banned. So try to stop keywords stuff, keywords typos, bad promo techniques.

- Unique title tags. One must for all my templates is each Blog post/Page must contain a unique title tag that’s the same as the post or page title. Search Engines totally love this :]

- Too much Javascript, Flash, or bad coding. Flash writing can’t be indexed there for the content on it does not help you at all. Javascript can be indexed but only to a certain extent.

Travel Blogging is when a Blogger who’s traveling Blogs along the way. I’ve been spending a lot of time in net cafe’s lately. Playing computer games and what not. I’ve noticed there’s a lot of people that have Blogger accounts that come to the net cafe for the purpose of only posting pictures on their Blog and talking about how their holiday is so far and where they are if they are doing a trip. I never really thought it was such a big thing, but at least 15% of the people that go to the net came I’m at are here just for the sole purpose of Travel Blogging.

Travel Blogging is much better then writing about it on pen or anything. Plus you can email and tell your friends your Blog and your whole travel is accurately documented. Not to mention that it’s time dated, can have pictures and what not. Is this going to become the latest Blogging adventure?

Yahoo has updated its serps. What does this mean? it means that sites ranking positions have changed. So if you search Yahoo for Webmaster SEO, my rank has changed. I still am not near the front page but it has increased due to my backlinks. Check to see if your rank has changed check out Shoemoney’s serp tool

I hope your serps have increased mine have!

Domains play a vita role with the out-come of any website or serious domain trader. With that said, there’s 2 main paths to follow - Mainstream or Reseller.

What are the differences? A “Mainstream” registrar is a company that either independently sells the domains, or offers reseller packages to resellers. A reseller will go to the Mainstream company and ask for a reseller package. A reseller package is similar to a hosting reseller package. Where the reseller will sell the Mainstream’s companies product but under a different brand. Now which is better, the big company or the small guy who tries to make a profit?

The small guy may in some cases be better as he strives to make a profit and gain more exposure. But in most cases the big company will have a phone number, 1 on 1 live support and email support.

The verdict : Mainstream in most cases. ( www.godaddy.com ) - ( www.namecheap.com ) <- both Mainstream.