Comments on: Entrepreneur: Get your HTML right! http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/ A blog on the development of the NGEDIT text editor Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:13:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: The growing pains of NGEDIT » Blog Archive » Focusing my development effort http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-234 The growing pains of NGEDIT » Blog Archive » Focusing my development effort Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:56:33 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-234 [...] Long time readers of my blog already know about my tendency to get carried away with stuff. I’ve got carried away with something in the past, just to have to retract the following day. The second post mostly deals with this tendency to get carried away. To sum up: I don’t think the lesson I need to learn is “constrain myself more”, as that takes away a lot of the energy as well - “learn to acknowledge my mistakes happily and as early as possible” seems a much more valuable lesson for me. And that applies in many other fields. [...] […] Long time readers of my blog already know about my tendency to get carried away with stuff. I’ve got carried away with something in the past, just to have to retract the following day. The second post mostly deals with this tendency to get carried away. To sum up: I don’t think the lesson I need to learn is “constrain myself more”, as that takes away a lot of the energy as well - “learn to acknowledge my mistakes happily and as early as possible” seems a much more valuable lesson for me. And that applies in many other fields. […]

]]> By: J http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-49 J Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:46:42 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-49 JD, the name comes from "Next Generation Editing". I hope to make the program worthy of the name :) I don't want to do beta until myself alpha-testing it have ironed out everything. Once I'm happy with it, I will be starting some external beta testing. Both bug reports and suggestions help improve the product a lot, as has happened with ViEmu. JD, the name comes from “Next Generation Editing”. I hope to make the program worthy of the name :)

I don’t want to do beta until myself alpha-testing it have ironed out everything. Once I’m happy with it, I will be starting some external beta testing. Both bug reports and suggestions help improve the product a lot, as has happened with ViEmu.

]]> By: JD http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-46 JD Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:24:42 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-46 My previous comment got cut off. Anyway.. Yes, you are correct that creating interesting stuff is the best way to get people to link to you. I would guess that if you write about interesting features in your editor which other editors either don't have OR they have poor implementation, that should get people to link to you. [I know, I will.] BTW, when are you planning to release beta of ngedit? Why the name ngedit? JD My previous comment got cut off. Anyway..

Yes, you are correct that creating interesting stuff is the best way to get people to link to you. I would guess that if you write about interesting features in your editor which other editors either don’t have OR they have poor implementation, that should get people to link to you. [I know, I will.]

BTW, when are you planning to release beta of ngedit? Why the name ngedit?

JD

]]> By: J http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-45 J Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:50:41 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-45 JD, I have PR 5 on the blog and 4 on the main page. I'll be looking for some links, but I'll better focus on actually "making it happen" by creating interesting stuff. Anyway, I've thought about it and the whole post I did above is pretty stupid. I plan on blogging about it tomorrow, as soon as I have a while. PR 6, cool. I like your stuff about "10 types of people in the world" :) JD, I have PR 5 on the blog and 4 on the main page. I’ll be looking for some links, but I’ll better focus on actually “making it happen” by creating interesting stuff.

Anyway, I’ve thought about it and the whole post I did above is pretty stupid. I plan on blogging about it tomorrow, as soon as I have a while.

PR 6, cool. I like your stuff about “10 types of people in the world” :)

]]> By: JD http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-44 JD Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:17:28 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-44 Just like Eric linked to you, get Joel to link to you. [I would guess some easy to read Unicode article might do the trick.] My PR went from 5 to 6 after Joel linked to me. I have heard that getting PR 5 is not that difficult but moving it Just like Eric linked to you, get Joel to link to you. [I would guess some easy to read Unicode article might do the trick.]

My PR went from 5 to 6 after Joel linked to me. I have heard that getting PR 5 is not that difficult but moving it

]]> By: J http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-43 J Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:29:08 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-43 Thanks for the link, I skimmed over your article it and it looks good, will give it a good read. On the other hand, I'm not expecting (yet) for the page to appear in a search for "vi emulation", but I'm definitely thinking that "vi emulation visual studio" should bring it first page. Conceded, I'm a newbie to SEO and I may be blatantly wrong. Anyway, I don't (want to) believe so. Why? Because the search phrase I'm after right now is very, very specific, and the current results for the phrase are either hardly related, appearing on low-pagerank pages, or several years old. It was not, say, in page 3 or 4 of the results, but even nowhere to be seen after 20 pages! Weirdly, earlier today it was #13 (page two) for "visual emulation vi studio", which nobody in their right mind would search for. It seems it is working better just in the few hours since I wrote the post - it is now #36 (page 4) for the "visual studio vi emulation" phrase, and that seems much better. And I've checked, and googlebot hasn't crawled the site yet. Now I have some plans for worthly inbound links :) Thanks for the link, I skimmed over your article it and it looks good, will give it a good read.

On the other hand, I’m not expecting (yet) for the page to appear in a search for “vi emulation”, but I’m definitely thinking that “vi emulation visual studio” should bring it first page. Conceded, I’m a newbie to SEO and I may be blatantly wrong. Anyway, I don’t (want to) believe so. Why? Because the search phrase I’m after right now is very, very specific, and the current results for the phrase are either hardly related, appearing on low-pagerank pages, or several years old.

It was not, say, in page 3 or 4 of the results, but even nowhere to be seen after 20 pages! Weirdly, earlier today it was #13 (page two) for “visual emulation vi studio”, which nobody in their right mind would search for.

It seems it is working better just in the few hours since I wrote the post - it is now #36 (page 4) for the “visual studio vi emulation” phrase, and that seems much better. And I’ve checked, and googlebot hasn’t crawled the site yet. Now I have some plans for worthly inbound links :)

]]> By: Ian http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-42 Ian Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:30:14 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-42 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's most likely not your bad HTML that's the trouble. It doesn't help, but it's not enough to keep you from showing up on those phrases which you should be high on. You're probably running up against a few things: 1. You just put that page on viemu up recently right? Google doesn't index nearly as fast as it used to so it can take weeks to get a new page in, unless... 2. You have lots of inbound links like blogs do, but that new page you put up doesn't. You might already have this fixed if people have blogged about that page and linked to it. Unfortunately the JOS forums won't help you there, because he has it setup for the search robots to not follow links found there. Really you should focus 100% on building some inbound links to the site in general and that specific page where possible. That will help you the most. It's really not to hard, just try and spend some time each day doing comments on blogs, forums, etc and try and build up your links. along the way you'll pick up some people who blog about you on their own and before you know it you'll have a bunch of links. I also wrote up an article on SEO a while back which might be helpful. http://www.userscape.com/blog/2005/03/24/search-engine-optimization/ Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s most likely not your bad HTML that’s the trouble. It doesn’t help, but it’s not enough to keep you from showing up on those phrases which you should be high on. You’re probably running up against a few things:

1. You just put that page on viemu up recently right? Google doesn’t index nearly as fast as it used to so it can take weeks to get a new page in, unless…

2. You have lots of inbound links like blogs do, but that new page you put up doesn’t. You might already have this fixed if people have blogged about that page and linked to it. Unfortunately the JOS forums won’t help you there, because he has it setup for the search robots to not follow links found there.

Really you should focus 100% on building some inbound links to the site in general and that specific page where possible. That will help you the most. It’s really not to hard, just try and spend some time each day doing comments on blogs, forums, etc and try and build up your links. along the way you’ll pick up some people who blog about you on their own and before you know it you’ll have a bunch of links.

I also wrote up an article on SEO a while back which might be helpful.

http://www.userscape.com/blog/2005/03/24/search-engine-optimization/

]]> By: J http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-41 J Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:17:42 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-41 JD, I'm also really glad I found out :) If I'm right in my pressumption that _that_ was the reason for few search results, I'll have learned a valuable lesson, and also will have helped others know about it. As it's easy to tell from the blog, I haven't done any development on NGEDIT for over a month. I will be busy getting the word about ViEmu out for a few weeks, studying how the traffic, evaluations, and even sales work. It will give me some time away from sheer development, which my brain really needs now (even if I may prepare a point upgrade of ViEmu with some small yet interesting things). One other thing: one of these !$%# days I'll have a new design for the blog! NGEDIT 1.0 will take a few months yet, it's a large project. JD, I’m also really glad I found out :) If I’m right in my pressumption that _that_ was the reason for few search results, I’ll have learned a valuable lesson, and also will have helped others know about it.

As it’s easy to tell from the blog, I haven’t done any development on NGEDIT for over a month. I will be busy getting the word about ViEmu out for a few weeks, studying how the traffic, evaluations, and even sales work. It will give me some time away from sheer development, which my brain really needs now (even if I may prepare a point upgrade of ViEmu with some small yet interesting things). One other thing: one of these !$%# days I’ll have a new design for the blog!

NGEDIT 1.0 will take a few months yet, it’s a large project.

]]> By: JD http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-40 JD Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:46:58 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/07/29/entrepreneur-get-your-html-right/#comment-40 I had seen that and I was about to write you and tell you about it, somehow slipped of my mind! Glad that you found out. And when is NGEdit going to come out? I had seen that and I was about to write you and tell you about it, somehow slipped of my mind! Glad that you found out.

And when is NGEdit going to come out?

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