Tuesday, 26 December 2006

A Mild Introduction

I just thought that I might as well give a little introduction to the blog. First of all, this is my first blog, second of all, I'm not too bothered whether or not people read the blog - I'm building it as a personal reference to my findings in the world of SEO.

I don't class myself as an SEO expert, however from the people I've spoken to who claim to be SEO experts themselves, I know a hell of a lot about search engine optimisation.

I have designed xoog.net from scratch, it was originally a project that was meant to be a clone of competitors such as tilllate.com, textmi.com, dontstayin.com, fatsoma.com amongst other similar sites that specialise in nightlife photography.

xoog was originallly intended as a university project, but I was forced to turn it into a proper website after I was fired as a photographer from tilllate.com, which is coincidentally the largest nightlife photography website in the world.

Because of my background, xoog mimics a lot of features from tilllate.com; as when I was designing xoog I did not intend it to go public, and this was not a concern.

It is not my goal to change xoog so it is as different to tilllate as possible; it is a slow process as it is a powerful script, however luckily i designed the entire site so that it could be easily modified in the future at any point.

as my university course does not focus on thing such as search engine optimisation (although it really should), I also didn't think about optimising xoog for the search engines. This has become an interesting challenge to me and it has gave birth to this very blog.

The blog will be about my findings and optimisations of xoog, as well as new features. it is a diary for ME, if you read it, I hope you find my discoveries interesting, there will certainly be a few new ideas brought forth to the SEO world, which will especially be useful for webmasters building web galleries and communities that are similar to xoog.net

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