Diary of a Webmaster

This is the diary of a webmaster - walking the interesting path of seeing a number of websites from their initial inception through to an established place in the web-world.
This journey covers many of the highlights and pitfalls of the journey - including choice of subject and content, choice of domain name, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, back-link generation, Google Referral Programme, the Google Sandbox theory, Analytics tools and many more.

Hopefully this site will help you avoid similar mistakes, or simply provide amusement and a good read. It may calm you down if you have a new website and suddenly your google rankings plummet, or maybe you'll find inspiration and new ideas for your websites.

Some Highlights in each month are:

Jan 2008
Site inception, Site feedback, Search engine submission, Google Adsense vs Amazon Associates (1), forging back-links and site partnerships

Feb 2008
Site evolution, Domain name regrets, Google Adsense vs Amazon Associates (2), The power of Google, Referring traffic.

Mar 2008
Falling ratings - the google sandbox phenomenon?! The power of referring sites. Launching a new site on a new subdomain.

Apr 2008
Self-maintaining sites - harvesting fresh content.

May 2008
Page Rank - how important is page rank?! The importance of unique keywords. Optimising dynamically generated pages. Keyword selection tools.

About the Author:

Nick Gibbs is a software architect and author, who has been working in the IT industry for the past 8 years. He currently a Technical Architect for a leading provider of message scanning services, working on image-scanning software (C++/Linux) and websites and webservices (C#.NET). During the summmer months you'll find him on tour with his rock-band Bleeding Hearts and in a dim and murky past you'll find his published works in the fields of Ab initio Protein Folding, Molecular Dynamics and BSE/CJD.

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