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Meta tags and building your online community

November 15, 2012 by Peter Mahoney

Meta tags and building your online community Wordpress SEO ExpertPart of building your online community is without a doubt, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). You want your tribe to be well-positioned, and desirable.

It’s just just new members either, but existing ones want to know they’re a part of something exciting, something that ranks highly. Something prestigious.

The “meta tags” in your site’s code are really important here. There’s a science behind it of course, but it’s something you want an expert like myself to help you with. They’re small pieces of code that search engines read to get a better ides of what your site is about, and what keywords it should look for.

However, here’s one of the tricks of the trade you can use yourself. This tool gives you feedback and advice regarding your meta data, helpfully colour coded for people who don’t want to worry about interpreting too much of it.

My favourite metric it returns is to check how relevant your keywords are to your content. This is an absolute must, and something to look at for all your pages.

It’s a bit technical, but the colour coding helps.

Mind you, so can I.

Meta Tag Analyzer.

Filed Under: Hints & Tips, Keywords, Online community, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Tools

Building and strengthening your online community

November 14, 2012 by Peter Mahoney

I've a new slogan for myself, "Building and strengthening your online community". Since it's what I do, it makes sense to say it!

— Purple Web Marketing (@purpleweb) November 13, 2012

Filed Under: Online community, Tweets

Online communities and ritual

November 13, 2012 by Peter Mahoney

A wonderful line from the Wikipedia article about Online communities.

An online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual.

I love the idea of describing our online interactions as ritual. After all, ritual permeates all of what we do. I even brush my teeth in a certain way that has become ritualistic. (Start on the lower left, scrubbing around the bottom before moving to the top).

Ritual can, at it’s most basic, be defined as:

5. a. A detailed method of procedure faithfully or regularly followed

That for me is it’s most basic meaning. I love ritual as an experience, something that can be shared, and transformative.

And that is the highest ideal of any online community, to help individuals change through participation in a shared group experience. The online medium of course is very different to a religious or secular ceremony, but it’s differences afford people the option to engage in a different way, to play out other parts of themselves, which is turn allows for a completely different transformation.

That’s my thought of the day. It’s amazing the train of thoughts a simple Wikipedia search can inspire.

Anyway, I’ve brushed my teeth, now on to work.

via Online community – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Filed Under: Online community, Opinion, Social networking

People will see you as the authority in your field

November 12, 2012 by Peter Mahoney

People will see you as the authority in your field if you are the person who helps them understand it.

— Purple Web Marketing (@purpleweb) November 8, 2012

Filed Under: Tweets

Transparent WordPress theme

November 9, 2012 by Peter Mahoney

Here’s a transparent WordPress theme, it’s called “petermahoney”, and it’s yours to use, free.

I loved the screenshots I saw for this theme, but it doesn’t seem to be available for download anymore. So I set about making my own.

I admit this site doesn’t necessarily capitalise on it as much as it could, “petermahoney” lends itself really well to large, beautiful, vibrant background wallpaper images. What can I say, I have a visual identity I try to stick to, and it happens to be black, white and red. 🙂

It’s a child theme for twentyten, but you install it in the usual way (as long as twentyten is also installed you’ll be fine, and as of today that theme still ships with all new WordPress installations).

There’s a readme.txt file that contains the few extra bits you need to know. However, for convenience, they’re also right here:

Installation notes:

Activate the “petermahoney” theme
Remove the “Header Image” entirely from /wp-admin > Appearance > Header
Upload your “Background Image” from /wp-admin > Appearance > Background
Upload your own 16×16 px favicon.ico to /wp-content/themes/petermahoney/favicon.ico
Upload your own 50×50 px logo to /wp-content/themes/petermahoney/images/header_logo.png
Edit style.css, replace “color:red” with “color:{your own colour}”

Release information:

Theme Name: petermahoney
Description: Child theme for the twentyten theme, for petermahoney.com.
Author: Peter Mahoney
Author URI: https://petermahoney.net
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Template: twentyten

Do check back here relatively often for new versions, as I’ll be updating it quite a bit.

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Freebies, Wordpress

One Peter Mahoney to rule them all: my Google ranking is going through the roof!

November 8, 2012 by Peter Mahoney

7 days ago, I didn’t rank on Google. I had a look for myself, and gave up on page 12. Anyone else would have given up long before, or at least found a Peter Mahoney they liked the look of more. 🙂

3 days ago, I was at the top of page 3.

Today, I am fourth overall, and the first result for an actual person. This applies to a search for Peter Mahoney in google.co.uk (I’m aiming myself at the UK market).

The top two results are for Linkedin directories, which both feature me in the number two spot, and a phone directory listing.

Peter Mahoney isn’t exactly an unusual name either. The marketing director of Nuance is a fairly well known and written about Peter Mahoney. A Peter Mahoney (regrettably) committed suicide after returning from fighting in Iraq, and a Peter Mahoney in Somerset appeared in court in connection with a murder enquiry. petermahoney.com has been owned for over a decade by the same person. None of these are me.

But in seven-short days, I have gone from not featuring at all, to beating out even Facebook results. It’s the result of a lot of experimentation, research, and 16 years web experience.

I plan to bottle this. And to make it available to you.

Filed Under: Google, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

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