Anyway, I decided to give it a shot today, in between getting the baby to the creche, doing some shopping, doing some proper work, and overseeing a bit of minor building work at home. I built a quick webpage, set up a subdomain on this site, blogged about it briefly on my other blog and even uploaded a shoddy video to YouTube. And when I eventually got back online this evening, I was ever so slightly disappointed to find that not only was my site NOT on the first page of Google, it wasn’t actually anywhere on Google at all. (Yes, I clicked all the way to the end).

Reckon I may have to rethink my strategy. Or maybe hope that there’s a prize for the WORST bit of search engine optimisation in Ireland.

Update:
After a brief spell at around the 30 spot, the new ‘improved’ WordPress powered site has disappeared completely. Either dark forces are at work, or I was a bit over-enthusiastic with the cross-linking (especially beween my own sites, all hosted by the same ISP. I’m not surprised I’m now in Google’s bad books!). I’m removing links now, but I’m thinking ‘horse, stable door’…

Update (2):
Roll back the carpets grandma, it’s party time.
My geansai gorm site has rocketed back up to page 2. It’s now the 16th result out of 71,000 odd. And that will do me just fine.

Final update:
It’s all over. Congratulations to the winners (www.mybluejumper.com I think it was). And happy days to everyone who took part.

geansaigorm.mikeafford.com managed to reach 15th position (out of 112,000 results). Highest 11th, Lowest nowhere.

I’ve tried to hoover up most of my own mess, so with any luck this is the last remaining splurge of blue jumper related madness, on this site at least.