When I first started with the web in 2004, I didn’t know very much about the web and didn’t know very much about web design, programming etc but I had a passion to do it and here I am today having learnt alot, but still learning, still excited and still very passionate about being as good as I can be.
When I started, I remember checking my web stats and nobody could find me and they probably didn’t care either as I was a small time startup and my site didn’t have any online value yet. As I learnt about the web and learnt alot from others both in the web design & search I started to understand what makes you popular on the web. Aaron Wall often talks about being linkworthy and how social interaction on the web is a great way to become popular amonst others in the community. Seth Godin also talks about people talking about you and how this applys to every business in his best selling list of books and why being remarkable is important as part of your overall business strategy.
These days my web rankings are getting better and better with first page results becoming more and more common as I slowly climb the search engine rank ladder and over the competition. What I have noticed is that more web masters are noticing me now more than ever before and I am getting more link requests than ever. Isn’t it funny that people only want to know you when your popular!
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