Jeremy Davis - Web Designer, Developer and Blogger

This post in the fifth in a series where I am recording the SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com. If you’ve missed the previous posts, you should view these first. I will only be doing these posts every two weeks from now on because there isn't much more that I plan to add so the only updates will be on the analytics and earnings type of stuff. I did most everything I said I would do at the end of last post. Added <strong> to the pictures page and made a video page that has some youtube clips of demonstrations and game footage. While the number of visitors remained around a consistent 15-20 a day my SEO rankings are really starting to improve. Finish Reading »

To call the ball room owner stressed would be an understatement. His lavish grand ball room had recently developed an annoying squeak whenever someone would walk across it. The owner had called several carpenters to fix the problem, but to no avail. The squeak remained as a poignant reminder that his precious ball room was flawed. In a final attempt to alleviate the problem, the owner gave another carpenter a call. The gruff man he spoke to said that he would arrive early tomorrow to inspect the situation. An old carpenter arrived promptly at 8 o’clock the next morning and was directed to the problematic ball room. The owner watched as the carpenter systematically walked across the room, listening to the various creaks that occurred as different hardwood planks were stood upon. After a few minutes of wordless walking, the carpenter casually walked over to a specific spot in the room, pulled out a nail from his tool belt and hammered the nail through a board. The age-worn carpenter walked back to the owner without a hint of squeaking from the ball room. The owner was ecstatic, until he looked at the bill the carpenter handed him. “$500 for a single nail?!” proclaimed the owner. “No” said the carpenter in soft voice. “It’s only $1 for the nail and $499 for the 32 years it took to learn where to put it” I’ve heard this story referenced on a few places but I thought it would be good to post it as a reminder. Finish Reading »

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison

I don't know if you are like me, but probably once a week I have one of the greatest ideas a person could ever had. Seriously. These ideas are life changing and in just a short time I'll be filthy rich with my own private island to prove it.

The problem is that they stay ideas. I might discuss them with a few friends and they might grow a little, but often they stay on paper or only a little bit gets done.

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This post in the fourth in a series where I am recording the SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com. If you’ve missed the previous posts, you should view these first. Here we are again so lets get to it. Google finally came this week, and it actually paid a visit twice. So Google appears to recognized that the site is updated frequently. Yeah for me. I added a robots.txt. It is the most basic one that just lets any robots in and disallows none. I doubt it affects the SEO in any way, but I just felt like it needed to be added. Only a few more posts went up because most of the Wii Fit news related to it's success in the UK this week, which really wasn't anything I wanted to write about and most was the same info. Here is how the site fared for the week. Finish Reading »

I used to be a big time computer hardware geek. I built my first computer at 16. I would paint my computers, add lights, fans and even cut the symbol from my favorite Star Wars character (Boba Fett, reprezent) into the side of the computer case.

Like most people doing this sort of thing, I tried to get the best stuff available. If I could get a 2.4ghz processor for only $100 more than the 2.3ghz, I did. If 1gb of memory was only $200 more than 512mb, I got 2gb. I could always find a way to justify getting the best hardware.

Well yesterday that changed and it weirded me out.

Like all people in this blogging/designing world that don't have a Mac, I want one. Badly. A few days ago the iMacs got some hardware updates. Nothing crazy different, just a little better stuff than what was already in there. As I looked at the different hardware options, for the first time EVER I told myself that I would be completely content with the cheaper version of the 24 inch screen models even though the better version wasn't a drastic amount different in price.

Here's how I justified not wanting the latest and greatest, and why I believe that computer hardware for the average consumer is losing its importance.

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I just got finished reading this How to Grow Your Blog post and found the poem at the end very inspirational.

If for some strange reason you read this blog and not problogger, here's the poem.

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This post in the third in a series where I am recording the SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com. If you've missed the previous posts, you should view these first. So another week has gone by, but unfortunately not many results to show for it. I did everything I mentioned I was going to do in Chapter 2, but googlebot didn't come by and index any of the new changes so unfortunately there wasn't much improvement. I noticed that Google Webmaster tools told me there was an error with one of the pages in my sitemap. I deleted the sitemap and generated another one, so hopefully there won't be any more problems. I'm not sure if googlebot decided not to visit because there was an error in the sitemap or because it had more important people to attend to. The only improvements in the SERP is most likely from this blog being indexed and giving some link juice back to the Wiii Fit site. Here are the weekly results. Finish Reading »

Pardon me while I channel my inner Seth Godin, but the thought struck me and I'm making any effort to give this blog more transparency than it has been in the past.

So why do DVDs use the term "deleted scenes" when they are promoting extra features on the DVD sleeve. Things that are deleted are typically errors and mistakes. The word "delete" has the connotation of trash being discarded.

While most scenes that are cut from the movie and worthy of being deleted (except anything from The Office. I swear they shoot an hour-long show and just cut out half in post production.) I would still think the marketing of the DVD would list them as "extra scenes" or "unreleased footage".

Delete = screwup

Extra = added value

K, I’m done now.

This post in the second in a series where I am recording my SEO efforts of my site wiiifit.com

Ok, I'm ready to get down to business.

If you haven't already be sure to read the Introduction post to see what my plans are and what tools I will be using to manage my SEO efforts.

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About 8 months ago I purchased the domain www.wiiifit.com (3 i's). I didn't have any real goals for it. I bought it just because I knew someone was going to do it so why not me. If you aren't sure what Wii Fit is, it's supposed to be the next big Nintendo Wii video game involving fitness and exercise games. More info can be found on my Wii Fit News site or on the official Wii Fit site. Anyways, I decided to actually do something with the domain last week. I thought it would be a good test site to play with SEO and see if I can get some decent traffic (read: Adsense Earnings) to the domain. So once a week I will discuss any changes to the site and show the earnings and traffic reports. Here's the basic setup. Finish Reading »