Getting into the search engines

This is a new blog, so is not listed anywhere, so one of the first things I am trying to do is ensure that if someone searches for "Steve Browne" that this blog will appear somewhere on the first page!

As the software running this is not ours, we don't have a massive amount of contyrol over the HTML aspects, which can affect how the search engines see you, but we'll see if we can tweak the template a bit...

For now, we'll just monitor whether the site gets picked up due to being part of Blogger and having regular posts made to it...

So the starting positions @ 17:30, Sunday 30th April 2006:

Search: site:http://www.stevebrowne.com
Google: 1 page listed
Yahoo: 1 page listed
MSN: 1 page listed

Search: Steve Browne
Google: NOT on first page
Yahoo: NOT on first page
MSN: NOT on first page


We'll check every few days to see how this gets on...