Google Love

On Sunday night, a search in Google for "Damien Learns Perl" returned this blog in the results!
This means that I am in! "Google he knows me, and he knows I'm right" as would sing my friend Phil.
A search for "learns Perl" returned this blog in second position behind... Soumya Learns Perl!
Her site (I assume she's a girl) is a wiki and it looks like it is not updated any more.
Anyway, it looks totally different from what I want to do.

I also stumbled Damien Learns Perl (DLP). I am an avid Stumbler and I have discovered plenty of interesting website by using the Stumble bar. You too can give DLP the thumbs up! If you don't know Stumble Upon, discover it at your own risk: it is highly addictive...

A search on Yahoo did not return anything so I addedd my blog to the Yahoo site explorer.

Summary of my actions so far to make DLP known:
- Submitted DLP's URL to Google and it took less than 3 days to get listed.
- Added DLP's URL to one directory
- Added DLP to the Stumble Upon's search by writing a review and adding as many tags as I could: (computers, programming, open-source, perl, blogging)
- Submitted DLP's URL to Yahoo (on Sunday night)
- Added AdSense ads on the blog: so far it has earned a little bit over $3! I'll keep you posted on the numbers.
- Advertised DLP on Facebook to get more readers in my blog's network: I am up to 12 readers as of Tuesday night, thank you all! Because I have over 11, I have "unlocked" the blog feed feature.

French proverb of the day:
"Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre": All good things come to him who waits

Next posts:

• What's that Blogroll thing that you added?
• How to get Perl and set up your Windows environment?
• How to install Google Analytics on your Blogger blog
  
• Hello World program
• How to publicize your blog - Part II
• First version of FileInfo script

Google Love

On Sunday night, a search in Google for "Damien Learns Perl" returned this blog in the results!
This means that I am in! "Google he knows me, and he knows I'm right" as would sing my friend Phil.
A search for "learns Perl" returned this blog in second position behind... Soumya Learns Perl!
Her site (I assume she's a girl) is a wiki and it looks like it is not updated any more.
Anyway, it looks totally different from what I want to do.

I also stumbled Damien Learns Perl (DLP). I am an avid Stumbler and I have discovered plenty of interesting website by using the Stumble bar. You too can give DLP the thumbs up! If you don't know Stumble Upon, discover it at your own risk: it is highly addictive...

A search on Yahoo did not return anything so I addedd my blog to the Yahoo site explorer.

Summary of my actions so far to make DLP known:
- Submitted DLP's URL to Google and it took less than 3 days to get listed.
- Added DLP's URL to one directory
- Added DLP to the Stumble Upon's search by writing a review and adding as many tags as I could: (computers, programming, open-source, perl, blogging)
- Submitted DLP's URL to Yahoo (on Sunday night)
- Added AdSense ads on the blog: so far it has earned a little bit over $3! I'll keep you posted on the numbers.
- Advertised DLP on Facebook to get more readers in my blog's network: I am up to 12 readers as of Tuesday night, thank you all! Because I have over 11, I have "unlocked" the blog feed feature.

French proverb of the day:
"Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre": All good things come to him who waits

Next posts:

• What's that Blogroll thing that you added?
• How to get Perl and set up your Windows environment?
• How to install Google Analytics on your Blogger blog
  
• Hello World program
• How to publicize your blog - Part II
• First version of FileInfo script

How to publicize your blog - Part I

Today, I noticed that typing "Damien learns Perl" in the Google search box does not return this website as a result...

This is not surprising as this blog is shiny out of the box and has not yet been crawled by the Google bots yet (the way I understand it, Google sends its little spiders crawling all over the web to discover new pages to add to its database).
After a little research (and by Google's own admission), I discovered that adding your URL to Google could take a very long time before they add your site in their database.
I also found some people who think they know tricks to accelerate the process:

• http://bloggerlounge.net
• http://www.tech-recipes.com

The name of this game is SEO, short for "Search Engine Optimization".
It is the set of techniques used to make your blog or website appear at the top of the search engine lists.

Feeling adventurous, I took the following steps for DLP (Damien Learns Perl):

1. I inserted ads from Google's AdSense program. Several reasons for that:

• Adding AdSense boxes actually increases the chances of getting listed by Google (at least, that's what tech-recipes.com says, see link above)
  
• Some ads might be relevant to you as AdSense scans the contents of each post to target its ads to the appropriate audience. I will do my best to keep it light.
  
• When someone clicks on an add, I earn a few cents (haven't figured out the math yet).
  
• By looking at the AdSense stats, I can have a rough idea of the site's traffic. I know this is not ideal and I will try to figure out a better solution later. Suggestions? Also, I know I will not see you guys who are using Firefox with AdBlock Plus (little tricksters!).

2. I submitted http://damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com/ to the Google search engine (because it might just be enough)

3. I also registered the URL on http://www.freesubmitwebsiteurl.com/

I'll keep you posted for the results.

Next steps:
4. Register on other directories
5. Register URL on other search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, AskJeeves, etc.)
6. Add an entry on Wikipedia?

French sentence of the day:
"Quand commence-t'on à apprendre Perl?": When do we start learning about Perl?

Next posts:

• How to get Perl and set up your environment (Windows and Linux)?
• Hello World program
• How to publicize your blog - Part II
• First version of FileInfo script

How to publicize your blog - Part I

Today, I noticed that typing "Damien learns Perl" in the Google search box does not return this website as a result...

This is not surprising as this blog is shiny out of the box and has not yet been crawled by the Google bots yet (the way I understand it, Google sends its little spiders crawling all over the web to discover new pages to add to its database).
After a little research (and by Google's own admission), I discovered that adding your URL to Google could take a very long time before they add your site in their database.
I also found some people who think they know tricks to accelerate the process:

• http://bloggerlounge.net
• http://www.tech-recipes.com

The name of this game is SEO, short for "Search Engine Optimization".
It is the set of techniques used to make your blog or website appear at the top of the search engine lists.

Feeling adventurous, I took the following steps for DLP (Damien Learns Perl):

1. I inserted ads from Google's AdSense program. Several reasons for that:

• Adding AdSense boxes actually increases the chances of getting listed by Google (at least, that's what tech-recipes.com says, see link above)
  
• Some ads might be relevant to you as AdSense scans the contents of each post to target its ads to the appropriate audience. I will do my best to keep it light.
  
• When someone clicks on an add, I earn a few cents (haven't figured out the math yet).
  
• By looking at the AdSense stats, I can have a rough idea of the site's traffic. I know this is not ideal and I will try to figure out a better solution later. Suggestions? Also, I know I will not see you guys who are using Firefox with AdBlock Plus (little tricksters!).

2. I submitted http://damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com/ to the Google search engine (because it might just be enough)

3. I also registered the URL on http://www.freesubmitwebsiteurl.com/

I'll keep you posted for the results.

Next steps:
4. Register on other directories
5. Register URL on other search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista, AskJeeves, etc.)
6. Add an entry on Wikipedia?

French sentence of the day:
"Quand commence-t'on à apprendre Perl?": When do we start learning about Perl?

Next posts:

• How to get Perl and set up your environment (Windows and Linux)?
• Hello World program
• How to publicize your blog - Part II
• First version of FileInfo script