Why create a website? Why did I create MPW?

I love making things. I usually work with fabrics and fibers. Collage is my process.

Making a website is very much like making a collage. It allows me to take many interesting things and arrange and rearrange them until they feel the way I want them to.

The website making is also like my art making in that the literal website creation is something that I can do alone but then after the creation I am forced to come out of my hermit’s cave and seek kindred.

By nature I’m solitary. I’d rather be alone then in a crowd. Over the years, I’ve learned that the solitary habit might be my nature but its not the best thing for me. Creating a website – actually the promoting of the website – is an attempt to force myself out into the open more often

goals, goals, and more website goals

content goals

1. 50 optimized pages by 1 Dec 07
2. 100 optimized pages
3. 150 optimized pages
4. ultimate goal: 465 optimized pages
5. 23 Nov 07 - 31 pages *My definition of optimized?

Key Phrases

Without traffic a website is like a diary or notes on a napkin; unread by anyone except you. You want people to visit your website.

Key phrases are the ticket to getting traffic. After a lot of trial and error I've come up with some guidelines for myself about key phrases for MPwoman. 13 total to optimize for on different pages and to track.

I use word tracker. Criteria I use for adopting key phrases; KEI - the usefulness of this number is disputed. I like using it to help me compare apples to oranges. A keywords metatag should have a maximum of 100 character, including spaces. Of the 13, only 3 can have a KEI of less than 1. These are mostly very popular terms found in the top 1000 most searched terms. Every life area needs at least 3 key phrases with a KEI of 100 or more. The remainders should have a KEI of at least 10, per word tracker, to be considered "good".

10 Useful Tools for Website Wealth

1. Google Webmaster Tools
   
2. Word Tracker.
   
3. Broken Link Finder
   
4. Pay Pal
   
5. World's Largest Registrar - GoDaddy.com
   
   
6. Yahoo! Site Explorer live badge: queries Site Explorer for the number of links to your site or page on the web -
   

Top search queries -- See which search queries most often returned pages from your site, and which of them were clicked.