October 29, 2007
@ 01:58 PM
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Google Page Rank (PR)

We have PR at last. The gods of Google have looked kindly on us and have given the main site (.com) a PR of 4 and the blog (.net) a PR of 3. We are very pleased. It has been nearly 3 months since we launched and really had no idea of what rank we would receive. We have over 400 in bound links, some from PR5 and PR6 sites, that we have been tirelessly building up. In fact outside of development it is the most time consuming job. We have also seen a big jump of indexed pages which is now up at just over 4500. We actually currently have over 50000 pages on the site so we hope that Google will continue to index more each week.


 
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October 12, 2007
@ 02:41 PM
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US Site On It's Way

New US site is on it's way, now we will have a clear UK and US offering, the new site is currently under going testing and we hope to have it live by the end of October. We have received a lot of visitors from the US and we will now be able to offer better job coverage and search facilities.


 
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October 11, 2007
@ 12:42 PM
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Signups vs Visitors

In our world a signup is someone who completes our registration form and by doing so create the basics of their Wise Scout profile. Signups are key to the progress of WS as they establish the core users of the site and begin to develop the real networked nature of our offer to contractors, where they can find and connect with other people they know where having really targeted job alerts and a way of advertising themselves all in one place. But visitors are what we need to get signups, fortunately we have really high conversion rate of visitors to signups so getting people to the site is our top priority. That’s why we have spent a lot of time recently to attract more people to the site.


 
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October 11, 2007
@ 12:38 PM
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Under the hood

You wont have noticed any new features for the last few weeks as we have been spending a lot of time "under the hood" to work on a number of things:

1. creating some database searches that enable us to send emails to people who fit certain criteria (eg, haven’t added any job alerts, haven’t logged in for a while etc)

2. Making our pages more search engine friendly so they will appear higher up and more frequently

3. Working on our advertising system so we can begin to offer customised advertising by keywords. This makes it much easier for advertisers to focus their adverts to their chosen audience.


 
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October 10, 2007
@ 12:44 PM
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Dynamic search pages

Having a dynamically created site with most pages having the same base URL with search parameters on them it has been quite hard to get Google to find any of our pages, that is until now. We have finally begun to see our search pages now appearing on Google some very high up for some niche skills. This has happened over the last couple of days and we have seen a clear uplift in traffic to the site because of it.


 
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