After a year, our website was completed. Great, now what? Why won’t my website show up in google? This is fucked. Search engine optimization (SEO). While this is super anti anything I believe in, my curiosity took over. How does SEO work? What do I have to do to have a search engine know who I am?
If I could just pay $100 to just have my website listed when I type “2multaudio”, “2mult audio”, and “2multaudio.com” in a search engine I would be happy. This is not possible. And oh how discouraging. Now I need to think about the amount of work and research that I need to figure this crap out that I could give a fuck about, while competing with people who do this professionally. Add that to increased discouragement. Oh and what ever work you put in now you won’t see until around 6-12 months, if it even works..
Path of least resistance, what does WordPress have to offer. Don’t get me started on things I don’t like about WordPress, I was too annoyed with WordPress to even write about the 20 hours plus I went through trying to diagnose why the mobile portion of my website was not working. Back to SEO with wordpress. All sources led to using plugins to add in meta tags. After trying a couple different plugins I landed on Soliloquy. This make is easy to edit the title and description to each page of your site. Should be easy enough, but what to enter in these fields? I kind of went the organic approach, with the question of what would I enter to find myself?
This took me around 6 hours and I am just barely scratching the surface. I have had enough for now and plan to check this again in 6 months. Still think SEO is bullshit, the above is my half-assed attempt to reluctantly accommodate search engines. It was actually kind of fun, however I hope this first attempt works.
10/3/2021 Almost a year later, still at the same point where I started. I will put this on the list of things