A few weeks ago I worked a while on a drawing I wanted to call “Nova”. But I couldn’t figure out how I should translate the shape in my mind to a color drawing.

This morning while I was working on my SEO I recognized that it should be possible to use the technique I used in Garbage draw to draw the picture of the Nova.

I’m not there jet. This is not the picture I had in my mind, but I know what I’m going to try next.

Corona

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SEO. Sounds like a chore doesn’t it? Well it kind of is.

A while back I told you that I want to reach a point where I can live from this site. That means that I need a lot more visitors then I have right now. My former website (about child abuse got about 2 visitors a week and I was very pleased with that. However to live from a site means that you have to get several thousand visitors a week. At the moment I get about 30 visitors a week who look at some 50 to 60 pages. Fifty to sixty pageviews per week on a site that has only been operational for a few months is nice, but not enough.

My stats counter tells me that I get about one third of my traffic via search engines (mainly Google) and a third via social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. The remaining third are people who have me bookmarked. Thank you for the bookmarks!

To get more traffic I have to work on my SEO. Which in my case means that I have to tell search engines what my site is about and I have to tell social bookmarking sites about the range of articles I’ve posted.

Luckely Wordpress has a lot of plugins that can help you with that task. Basically after I’ve written an article I have to gather a collection of keywords for search engine spiders and I have to post a link at several bookmarking sites.

In it selves that isn’t very much work. The only thing is that by the time I though of this I had already written about 50 articles. Right now I’m working my way through the backlog and that is a bit of a chore.