SBI Week 2 — My Home Page

Well it’s been a busy week learning how to build up my website. I finally “passed inspection” and was able to setup my home page. Before I tell you about my home page trials, let me tell you about a few things I’ve learned about the internet through this journey.

I’ve helped people build their websites before. I’ve put in the text, put the graphics together and thought I’d done a good job. My apologies to all of those I “helped”. Like most people I thought that you basically set up your shop window and waited for the customers to run — not walk — into the business and become a lasting customer.

Well, since that didn’t happen (I guess the throngs got lost!) and I started trying to learn all about SEO and the ways to get noticed by the Search Engines and things like that. I found that all to be a bit confusing, but after an intensive 7 days of information and training I at least now have an inkling of a clue.

SBI makes sure that you do lots of research into your website subject before they even let you near the actual creation process. Being Blue this is a wonderful asset for me. It is so easy to get distracted and lose track of what is the most important part of having a website — the content.
The pretty pictures are nice, but they don’t drive traffic to your website; interesting content does.

So, I was finally “allowed” to put my words on the internet. Yipee! I thought I could shoot off some quick copy and tweak it at another time. Nope, wrong again! SBI has a built in “test” that you take before you can actually build the page. Building the page, for those of you who aren’t familiar with SBI, means that your page can go live into the worldwide web. Anyway, suffice it to say that my initial offerings met with strong resistance, to say the least.

I started with the idea that it would take me about 30 minutes to put my introduction together, but in reality it took me over two hours! But by the time I finished this little blurb I understood where keywords need to be placed in order to make the search engine spiders happy and many other tidbits.

This next week I’ll be putting together more pages for my website. And I’m sure that I’ll be learning lots more before this journey is through. One thing is certain — I’ll be a much better writer by the time this website is done!

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