Rick Lomas: How to get #1 in Google » port issac http://www.ricklomas.com How to get a number one spot in Google in less than 2 hours Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:50:33 +0000 en hourly 1 admin admin Get paid for writing about your travel experiences No No Port Isaac Cottages http://www.ricklomas.com/2009/01/19/port-isaac-cottages/ http://www.ricklomas.com/2009/01/19/port-isaac-cottages/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:23:44 +0000 Rick Lomas http://www.ricklomas.com/?p=10322 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.

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]]> 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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