Port Isaac Cottages
I'm just making a new site called Port Isaac Cottages. I'm doing it for free for my friend Adam Godfrey who I know from Alpe d'Huez in The French Alps. I agreed to do this in return for getting to borrow his lovely holiday cottage from time to time when I am in the UK. The holiday cottage is called Llanbrydn which is in a tiny village called Trelights in Cornwall. It is very near the quite famous Port Issac where Poldark and Doc Martin have been fimed. In fact I believe that the next TV series of Doc Martin begins filming this May.
So why am I making this post here? Well, this is to demonstrate how to get a site indexed in Google very quickly. This is what I have done so far:
- did some keyword research using the Google External Keyword Research Tool and came up with the phrase 'port isaac cottages' to try and target
- registered www.portisaaccottages.com with Go Daddy
- Set up some CPanel hosting (in the UK)
- installed a Wordpress blog using Fantastico (this comes with most CPanel hosting)
- added the Semiologic Pro theme to the blog
- OCR'd the leaflet Adam gave me and scanned the photos
- Added the content to 'pages' (rather than 'posts') in the Wordpress blog
- Made a blog post called 'Port Isaac Cottages'
- Grabbed the RSS and pinged it at Pingomatic
- Installed a plugin to create a XML Google Sitemap
- verified and added the site and site map using Google Webmaster Tools
- Added Google Analytics
- Dugg the blog post and pinged the RSS feeds from Digg
- Social Bookmarked the post using Del.icio.us and pinged the RSS feed from that
- Made this blog post linking to the new site with the anchor text Port Isaac Cottages
I'll have a rest now and see what happens.
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