Friday, October 14, 2011

Taking My Own Meds, Managing External Links

Some time ago, I had a domain name for myself.  It was titled: Dooleyserver.net.  I had this domain since before I got married and then once I did get the not tied, I offered to piggy back my wife's figure skating club web site off the back of my own personal domain.  I called it 7rfsc.dooleyserver.net.

Now, there were several personal reasons why I did this, but as things go, so too did this need to go.  But not before I learned a lot from this web site management. I had things setup at one point where when you looked for "Western Wisconsin" and "Figure Skating" our club was either 1, 2, or 3 on the Google.com search results.

I've now fixed up our club's web site so that it is on it's own domain and it is filed as 7RFSC.org.  It is on a good server and the up-time is amazing.  But now I need to fix some of my own search results.  The same search I relied on will not show our club's web site within the first 5 pages.  Very nearly, this is a virtual reality death.  We may as well not exist.

One of the first things I need to fix is my relevance.

How real is this web site to the outside world?

We see that many search sites, Bing, Google, Yahoo will display snippets of your web site.  And of course, you see that they will identify portions of your site that are real to your terms.  But part of this judging comes from when other web sites identify your site with other similar topics.

7RFSC.org has the following link page data:

Name

Site Address
United States Figure Skating Association
Figure Skater’s Website
Skate Web
Professional Skaters Association
International Figure Skating (Magazine)
Ice Network
Figure Skating Council of Wisconsin
http://www.fscouncilwisconsin.org


We had these links from our old web page.  And we had link backs from most of them.  So on, 10/13/11 you can guess... we have Zero.  This is not helping... but I only have myself to blame.  I'll be getting a hold of these organizations to fix this.  I hope some change happens soon.