World’s best website manager - Dave Wilkinson
Am I really the world’s best website manager?
I’d like to think so, but there are probably a couple of people out there who are faster and more knowledgeable than me. Although I’m sure they charge more.
So why do I claim to be the world’s best website manager? Well, rather than blowing my own horn, I’m conducting a search engine optimization experiment to see if I can convince Google to give me a number 1 search engine ranking for the keyword ‘world’s best website manager’. This article is inspired by (and stolen from) Brendon Sinclair, the man considered by Google to be the world’s best web designer
So the Worlds best website manager is the Google champion?
In many instances, yes. So let’s see what’s needed to write the highly optimized web page that’s going to help me in my quest.
Because search engine algorithms are totally automated, there’s nobody sitting in the Googleplex doubting my status as the best website manager on the planet. All I have to do is have my page meet certain criteria, and hopefully it’ll be ranked no.1 before too long. And once a search engine ranks your page number 1 for a keyword, there’s really no argument about your authority.
Let’s take a look at what I’ve done to the page structure to ensure I get as much search engine credibility as possible:
- The page title - Take a look at the top of your browser window. The title of this page is “World’s best website manager - Dave Wilkinson”. The page title tells search engines what this page is about.
- The file name - Next, you’ll notice the name of this article is “http://www.thinkdave.com/worlds-best-website-manager-dave-wilkinson. Getting the title included in the file name earns extra search engine points.
- Sub-headings - I’ve used my keywords in two H3 sub-headings to enforce the keyword and show it’s use in context. Just because it’s a sub-heading doesn’t mean it isn’t important to search engines.
- Page content - While the content of this page spans over 600 words, I’ve made sure I work the “Worlds best website manager” into my copy a good few times. I’ve also made sure that I don’t add it too many times to make the page read unnaturally.
- Niche topic - As of today, there is no current world’s best website manager, at least not according to Google. So you could say that due to a lack of competition, it shouldn’t be too hard to get ranked.
- Inbound links - In order to provide some support for my claim to become the world’s best website manager, I need to back it up with some authoritative links. So I’ll be seeking a few sites with high Page Rank (PR) in the next couple of weeks and trying to get them to link to me. I’ll also be using one or two internal links to this page from other pages on my site to help out.
- Optimized images - This isn’t really necessary, but I’ve also optimized the image at the top of this article for search engines. I’ve added essential elements like the image title, the image’s alt tag and it’s dimensions to help Google index the image and add it to Google Images. Every little bit helps.
In theory, all I have to do now is build a bunch of links to this page and wait for Google to index it. Unless I’ve made any mistakes that get the page penalized by search engines, you should start seeing it climb the Google results page in the next few weeks.
I’ll keep you posted.
