How to build a Local Website

Go Local is the name of the game in 2011/12 and the success of bringing the global web developments back home is a trend of the time. First it was about tagging people, now we tag locations, be it on social networks such as Facebook or on Photo sites, such as Picasa or Flickr.

Based on the fact that surfers search for and prefer local business to cross border transactions, social networks namely have built in the local tags and stimulate users to hook media and events to geographically tagged locations.

In order to dominate the local market, you need to assess the use of the internet your neighbors make; chances are that they mostly hang out on social media, search Google and use email. This is of course an extremely simplified view but it gives an indication about where we need to build high visibility.

You also want to have an idea about how people access the net and websites; you will notice an increased use of mobile deices, which means that your content needs to be formatted and optimized  for desktops as well as for tablets and mobile phones.

Finally you may notice that surfers prefer visual content to text, which impacts on editing and publishing for multiple platforms.

In order to build high visibility on search returns, you need

• a local website.
• make use of all possible Google Listings pertaining to the geographic location.
• great content and consistent publishing to provide useful information and trigger conversation.

To dominate social networks (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn) we need

• optimized profiles.
• Facebook Pages.
• a consistent flow of information to trigger attention and conversation.
• an optimized set-up to assure traffic back to our websites (let the social networks work for us instead of the opposite).

To dominate the mobile web we need

• mobile versions of our websites (tablets and smartphones).
• mobile search optimization.
• ideally an App.
• easy to use interactive functions.

The answer is similar to managing a business online. There are three main elements I like to focus on:

• an optimized workflow to assure maximum productivity.
• high quality content and content providers.
• an integrated publishing network to hit all the important targets with per platform optimized content.

• Ads from Local Business.
• Ads from external Business wanting to do business locally.
• Eventually by integrating a local directory.
• Eventually by integrating a real estate classifieds feature.
• Eventually by integrating a service and products exchange.
•  … and more.

Just a few ideas:

• Talk about people.
• Talk about events.
• Talk about stories concerning the community.
• Talk about Local Sports, Clubs, Associations.
• Publish Pictures (people like to see their face and place).
• Talk about local business.
• Integrate a news wire from the major’s office.
• Have a local Gossip column.
• Let visitors contribute and discuss content.
• Don’t forget rating.
• Create competitions, contests, top 3 lists.
• Exchange advertising space with local media to promote your site quickly an consistently.
• Bring the conversation from social networks back to your site.
• … and so much more!

I hope this post helps your brainstorming when creating your local project. I will publish shortly a detailed project for my demo community, Vouliagmeni.

Related posts:

1. How to Optimize your Impact on Social and Mobile Networks
2. Facebook Strategy with WordPress
3. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 3
4. 3 Web Design Trends in 2011
5. New Facebook Pages Publishing Concept

Google Top 10 Ranking for your Shop

Is your shop ranking on Google Top 10? Under a relevant keyword?

Can Search Engine Users find your shop on Google Top 10 when looking urgently for a product?

Semiomantics has been tuning sites for top 10 performance for years and while things become more complex online, a new Content and Ads delivery system which can be used even by a complete newbie has been developed based on the huge experience gained over time and from daily practice.

On June 30 the new Script, YORGOO Booster, will be officially released to the public. However we will train a handful online marketers, newbies and pros during the coming week-end to understand Search Engine Marketing and the use of the new script.

The Ycademy Online Seminar, taking place this coming week-end will deal with YORGOO Booster and with all the elements it can transport and deliver right to the Top of Google.

You will be amongst the first owners of a new kind of a marketing web site.

You will be granted 100% resell rights to this unique product.

And of course you may gain some additional knowledge about Online Marketing and Publishing.

Tickets cost $50 (with the usual discounts for Ycademy pros)

There is only a small number still available (below 5 as far as I am aware of).

There will never be any additional resellers for this product, guaranteed.

Tickets available from HERE

(Contact Bianca Gubalke: bianca (at) ycademy.com

Related posts:

1. How to Rank Google Top 10 with your Shop
2. Google Top 10 Formula
3. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 3
4. Google Top 10 Make Money Strategies
5. Google Top 10 Online Seminar July 2009

YORGOO Booster competes on Google Top 10 Ranking

Yesterday’s Google Top 10 related post was aiming to measure the performance of our new Development “YORGOO Booster”. We were intentionally targeting a mega keyword, “Google Top 10″ with over 420 million search returns to see if at all our new Booster would show up at all.

We were positively surprised to see that YORGOO Booster scored Google Rank 43, just behind Auction Talk Live. The search term Google Top 10 is not an easy target but ideal to measure the performance of YORGOO Booster.

“Google top 10 ranking” is an important sub-category of “Google top 10″. Once we have improved our result on Google Top 10 we will start expanding into related keywords, competing with YORGOO Publishing related sites.

Keywords we will be targeting will include

and such like.

Look out for more.

• booster ranking googles
• google top 10 ranked blogs

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 Ranking for your Ads
2. Google Top 10 with YORGOO Booster
3. Google Top 10 Formula
4. Google Top 10 Make Money Strategies
5. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 3

Google Top 10 Formula

Over the years we have come across many promising formulas to reach Google Top 10 Positions. Hype Promotion guaranteeing Google Top 10 position on any keyword is sent to your spam box daily and promising, well designed sales pages are even promoted by Google Ads which is in complete contradiction to the products’ claimed merits.

Seriously, nobody can guarantee Google Top 10 positions on any keyword. However there are some clear ways of proceeding to put the best chances on your side of the table. Consider also that Google’s algorithm evolves and the filtering is subject to change. By adopting the following formula you will most likely be successful, very successful.

For example, keyword.com

Don’t tell me the .com of your keyword has gone; you can always build your keyword into a key-phrase which will work fine. Remember, the closer you are to what people actually type into the search form, the higher your chance of being found.

Example: how-to-change-a-light-bulb.com

Watch out: don’t use Brand Names or Trademarks without authorization in your domain name. Google-Top-10.com would be clearly against Google’s terms as well as it would be sanctioned by law.

No doubt some sites do better than others and some scripts give you a fair advantage, namely if you are not a SEO expert. Semiomantics scripts, the ones I am using, have been developed to provide to anyone an optimized framework with high publishing power. The power of clean, search engine optimized scripts has been proven time and again and you will find many samples of  Google Top 10 performance by Semiomantics based scripts.

I put the script right on the number two position, because we have demonstrated that you can reach Google Top 10 simply with a domain and a script without any content.

Here is a shocking example: a year ago or longer we have loaded a domain renateschedl.com to demonstrate that we can beat easily renate-schedl.com, renate-schedl.de and so on. Our renateschedl.cm has been for as long as it exists on Google number 1 without any content other than a reference to Semiomantics and a basic configuration targeting the irrelevant keyword Fibromyalgia. Check out Renete Schedl.

My point is of purely educational nature: Renate is a dear friend and great marketer. But in a way she also is victim of ‘keyword-theft’, ‘name-theft’ or whatever you want to call a sly form of legal identity theft:

Large networks, such a linked-in, facebook, twitter and others grab your name to get their websites on top of Google under your neme keyword. Your site, having less authority than the big boys, falls back and often disappears from the top 10, even if you use your name as domain name. The big boys place their ads along with your name, profile or keyword and make the bucks while you, fooled,  have thought that they would help you to promote your business.

Renate Schedl on Google

Observe that ranks 2–5 are monopolized by the big boys, leaving Renate just with the breadcrumbs.

Result: the Semiomantics Framework does better even without any content, proving it’s superior quality and long term efficiency. So far for the Script test.

Create a structure where you can easily organize your content in function of the targeted niches and keywords. A site map is agood idea to allow Google’s search spiders to easily find your content and to index it contextually.

You don’t need to be a genius. But original, interesting content is a plus.

Editing your content in an optimized way needs a little effort and is not as easy as it may seem: experience shows that many a great Author does not appear on Google Top 10 with brilliant content, just because the content is not edited in the best possible way. Editing is a job you can learn. Ycademy Online Seminars and Trainings are available for that.

It’s a bit like the Editing job; brilliant content, lousily published will just not make it. The quality of your publishing can be improved largely with a solid site framework, such as Semiomantics frameworks. Personal fine-tuning however will always make the difference. Publishing is an art but you can learn it. Ycademy seminars and Trainings cover this topic as well.

Make it a rule to think in campaigns, whereas the goal is to get your site to Google Top 10 ranking on the selected keyword or keyphrase.

Example: if your site is about “How to publish a Newsletter” then post about this topic as many posts as are needed to reach your Top 10 ranking, in stead of jumping from one topic to the next without ever reaching on any keyword an authority position.

YORGOO Publishing, another Semiomantics based site has reached rank 4 on “How to publish your Newsletter” with just one post, beating 242,000,000 competitors on Google.

How to Publish your Newsletter on Google

Once you have reached your top 10 position, you must maintain it; just continue to publish once in a while, depending on the competition, a post targeting the selected keyword.

A campaign on a keyword is similar to promoting a URL: keep your focus until the goal is reached before you shift to the next keyword. If and when you shift, make sure you have the necessary resources to campaign for the next keyword while maintaining your achievements on the first target.

Focus on reaching Google Top 10 before you think about web design, graphics, ads and other distractions. If your site can not be found by searchers, no one will ever see your ads or beautiful graphics.

Priority number one is therefore: Reach Google Top 10!

Once you are there, you are interested in offering your visitors a good first impression: create empathy with your site design, look and feel. Aim to offer your visitors quality content and a positive surfing experience.

Only on the third level or priorities I put ads.

There are always exceptions to the rules and there are just two of them to mention: YORGOO Blaster and the new YORGOO Booster; these are two systems which are ads related, more than content related and follow their own path.

Applying the above rules, I have been doing pretty well over the years and I believe all those who have followed Ycademy Seminars and who have implemented the above on their own sites are reaching Google Top 10 positions … almost at will and more importantly: the Google Top 10 rankings have long lasting effects and that is where you make and save money in your marketing effort.

• google top 10
• google top rank formula
• ple top 10 goal
• ple top10 goals
• top 10 formulas

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 3
2. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword
3. Google Top 10 with Twitter
4. Google Top 10 Make Money Strategies
5. Google Top 10 Ranking by YORGOO Booster

Google Top 10 Ranking

You want to reach Google top 10 ranking with your website? Great. And then, what’s next?

Ask yourself this simple question and create a relation between your purpose and your website. Different reasons can motivate you to storm Google: you want high visibility for interested people to find your content. You want to increase the readership to influence the way people think about a topic (opinion leader). You want to occupy space on Google Top 10 to earn money.

Fine, but how do you want to make money?

Let’s not go into keyword analysis and market assessment here; let’s just look at the mechanisms which allow you to make money from your Google Top 10 Position.

When people search Google to find a solution to a problem or question, they will end up on the Top 10 search return page. Your entry shares the benefit of that page with 9 other organic entries, maybe an authority entry as well as with some advertisers who pay for being listed on the right side of the page.

The more people search for your terms (keywords) the more the Google Result page obtains and the more you are likely to harvest your share of that traffic.

Some people will click on your Google entry and end up on your site, respectively on the specific page of your site which has made the race.

Your site has different things to offer to your visitor: Contextual Content, other content, Ads and Gadgets.

By Clicking on your ads or by following related commercial links from within your content, visitors will enter your sales pipeline. Depending on what marketing strategy you use, you may make money from every single click (pay per click programs, such as Google AdSense) or you may direct visitors to a sales page of yours (shop for example) or of a merchant you are an affiliate of. The Third possibility is that visitors click on ads you have been paid for to display by direct advertisers.

Basically it’s your content which will make you earn a Google Top 10 position.

Content is what Google is looking for; a product review is a good example for strategic content. The content can be directly linked to a sales pipeline from within the post or page, by linking from within your post to your shop or affiliate program where the reviewed product is sold and from where you expect commissions (your shop, Amazon Affiliate Program, and many more).

In this case, the content has 2 functions:

1. It earns your Top 10 position.

2. It links to contextual sales.

This strategy is probably the most rewarding one, since the content (originally that’s what visitors came to your site for) takes the information a step further right to a sales pipeline.

The Problem is: you need to write good content to reach Google Top 10 and you need to create the necessary empathy with your readers to keep them interested enough to follow your recommended links.

This strategy is compatible with all other strategies and can be used on any site format.

You are a fairly good producer of content, but your skills are not particularly sharp on writing ‘sales pages’.

Here the content transports your site to Google Top 10 but you will not focus on selling straight off your content (text), you may rather want to0 associate ads to your post, within the loop (post).

A contextual ad associated with a post is great stuff and still better than just being able to use the sidebars, headers and footers of your page. Such ads can have the shape of banners, text ads or flash or whatever you like and they can refer to your own products, other people’s products or advertisers, such as Google Ads.

This strategy is brilliant in as much as it can be associated to any content, even authorized syndicated content and it will work. Imagine you get a great product feed from a merchant to your site and you associate automatically relevant ads?

How about headers, footer and sidebars?

These are the most basic places you will find ads on and most webmasters use ads in their framework. Such ads can be contextual, such as Google Ads or they can just be ads promoting products and services of general interest to your readership.

The danger and main mistake you may notice is that people often exaggerate to such an extent that visitors will not look at the parts of your layout where you accumulate ads; in fact many a surfer has developed a reflex to smartly navigate around ads areas on websites.

The quantity of ads is less decisive than the quality, the editing quality! One well placed and edited ad may do much better than 10 ads which scare people away.

The Good News remains: such ads can be completely separated from the content and the extreme strategy would consist in overwriding the visitors original interest in your content with a new interest in what the ad or promo is claiming!

This is an incredibly simple concept allowing people without writing skills to monetize a Top 10 Position.

Does it work? Yes, it does as YORGOO Blasters prove daily.

Combine any of the above strategies in function of your purpose, skills and ambitions and select the appropriate framework for doing so. If you are content focused, you want to select a framework with highlights your content, if you are ads focused, your need a framework which will exhibit your ads in an overwhelming way, and so on.

Typically Content oriented Frameworks are : Yorgo Nestoridis, YORGOO Publishing.

Typically Mixed Frameworks are: YORGOO Press, YORGOO Tabloid

Typically Ads oriented Frameworks are: YORGOO Blaster, YORGOO Booster, Dublicator

Ycademy Calls and Seminars have been dealing with Search Engine Optimization for over 2 years as well as on the resulting monetization. Contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com for further information or register for the June Seminar from HERE.

Over the past years we have developed successful scripts, known as Semiomantics scripts which have been specially designed to storm Google and to place them selves as frameworks on Google top positions. All sites referred to above are powered by Semiomantics and all of them rank on Google Top 10 in their respective fields.

All Semiomantics scripts are released in very limited editions to provide a real advantage to users.

Our latest development, YORGOO Booster will be released on June 27–28, 2009 at the Ycademy Online Seminar to all participants. Soon you will see them all over the place. Contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com for more information and availability of scripts.

See a test Booster in action HERE

• what startegy google use to make money from their website
• how to make money on google 10 top
• top ten money strategies
• top 10 google analy
• strategies for google to make money
• make monkey ranking top google
• make money strategies
• how google makes money strategies
• google top 10 money making products
• google strategy for making money

Related posts:

1. Make Money with YORGOO Press
2. Make Money with Twitter
3. ad: Make Money with Twitter. J…
4. New blog post: ad: Make Money …
5. Make Money with Twitter

Facebook and Mobile Web Seminar by Ycademy

Wow! Your Semiomantics Sites go mobile and Facebook! How to hook your WordPress to Facebook and build an eye catching Mobile Site with the look of a iPhone Application?

Our June Seminar will deal with all the issues relating to interaction with Facebook and the Mobile Web.

The interaction with Facebook is vital to reach out to 1 out of 10 people in this world who are Facebook Subscribers! There are multiple possibilities to hook to Facebook, but not all of them are to our advantage.

At Semiomantics Facebook developments we have tested various possibilities and identified the options which optimize best our activity on Facebook.

We are proud to share with Seminar participants the Facebook Marketing Concepts elaborated over the most recent months, namely since Facebook introduced new rules in February.

As usual, 1 pm — 9 pm London time on each day.

As usual on Brain Time, $85, Ycademy Pro Discount:$50.

Starting from our Author Websites, we will feed all our activity into Facebook with the purpose to gain visibility in Facebook and their Search Engine. The second step is to extract from Facebook a maximum of Facebook activity to make it available outside Facebook and to optimize it for Google.

Ycademy Facebook and WordPress Seminar June 2011

For the second part above we will be glad to use our YORGOOPress blog, which by then should run on Semiomantics XO!

Finally, we will spend the rest of the week-end on working on an eye-catching presentation of our Author Blog on the Mobile Web, optimizing the site for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Blackberry, Win 7 Mobile and so on.

After the Seminar, you will be able to duplicate the above for your customers.

Tuesday and Thursday our daily calls at YorgoLive will be focusing on updating and upgrading your websites at YORGOOPress and your Author Blog where needed. Please be there as we prefer not to waste our time on these issues during the seminar.

• How to create a Facebook Page
• How to Post from WordPress to Facebook
• How to import Facebook Conversation to WordPress
• How to add Facebook Comments to WordPress
• How to post to your page walls and notes
• How to drive your Friends from Facebook to your shop
• How to control your Look on the Mobile Web
• How to design custom Apple Icons and Start up Pages
• How to structure your Blog for the Mobile Web
• How to automate publishing to the Mobile web
• How to sell to Mobile Web Users and Facebook without being in Facebook or on Mobile devices
• How to publish WordPress Pages to Facebook

Updated Author Blog and Press sites. Photoshop, HTML Editor, Text Editor; all other materials and scripts will be provided.

Look out for advanced software which will be announced later this week.

• facebook web seminar
• mobile yorgo nestoridis
• vegetable oaka

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Online Seminar May 2011
2. Facebook Online Seminar by Ycademy
3. Ycademy October Seminar
4. Ycademy Online Publishing Seminar
5. Ycademy November Seminar

Add WordPress to your Facebook Fan Page

FBlaster is a new Semiomantics Facebook Development with the purpose to populate your Facebook Fan Page with any content namely from your WordPress or any blog site. In fact FBlaster, once installed can aggregate all your feed streams, from any site, such as blog, shop, flickr, tumblr and so on and bring it right in  front of your audience at Facebook with style.

FBlaster for WordPress on Facebook

FBlaster is based on the high performance Semiomantics XO script and integrates all the qualities, bells and whistles thereof.

Considering that Facebook Fan Pages display content in an iFrame, it is important to integrate as much of the FBlaster content with facebooks other features in order to gain visibility on the facebook search and in order to establish communication between the fan page content and the facebook audience.

In order to accomplish this, FBlaster communicates with the facebook wall, notes and comments. Facebook comments can be integrated into FBlaster as well as the oposite is true as well: FBlaster Comments can populate the Wall and Notes as well.

FBlaster allows to manage your Facebook content from outside. FBlaster also takes advantage from the multiple feed opportunities granted by Facebook to export Facebook content to the WWW with the goal to add exposure on Search Engines, namely on Google.

A complete description of all features will follow shortly.

The FBlaster version built for Listen Up London is an independent external website which fits perfectly into a Facebook iFrame Tab or Fan Page. The Facebook integration can be viewed HERE

The site in it’s present version serves to share with the Facebook audience web content created by and about Christian George and “Listen Up London” on multiple platforms, such as tumblr, YouTube or Flickr.

Once installed, the publication to and from Facebook is automated. Further development is possible, such as adding a shop, or any other desired feature, such as a version for mobile devices.

The combination of self hosted WordPress and Facebook is a brilliant idea; you take advantage of the popular place Facebook for the social aspect and you can style your content and features to taste.

Also from a work-flow point of view, you don’t need to spend your day on Facebook and manage at the same time your WordPress: your Publishing and Editing is managed from your WordPress dashboard.

Originally FBlaster has been developed for people who want to make their Facebook cool (it’s true, while Facebook may have been cool when it started, it now looks somewhat oldish and it still does not allow users to give to their FB presence that personal touch and feel you can set up on MySpace for example.

Also, FBlaster is probably the most sophisticated Facebook Marketing Tool in as much as it can provide high visibility without paying for Facebook or other ads. There is no question about the Google Top 10 performance, since the FBlaster includes Semiomantics XO optimization features. Social Media Marketing is made easy with FBlaster as it can control and automate publishing to multiple social networks, such as MySpace and all the social aggregators.

Last but not least, users have complete control over where on Facebook to publish posts :-).

For the time being FBlaster is in it’s final stages of development. It is planned to be used by Semiomantics as a custom module for Semiomantics XO customers. A popular FBlaster farm version is in the planning.

Pricing starts at $500 about for custom developments.

• add wordpress to facebook page
• best to add on facebook page
• wordpress to facebook page
• wordpress for facebook fan pages
• facebook fan page wordpress
• fblaster
• wordpress fan page
• WordPress for Facebook Fan Pages with FBlaster
• facebook iframe youtube
• facebook page wordpress

No related posts.

AuctionTalkLive and YORGOO Media

When about 10 days ago AuctionTalkLive and namely the blaster at BiancaGubalke.AuctionTalkLive as well as YORGOO Media sub-domains disappeared from the radar on Google, we had t express our frustration, for once not publicly but behind the scenes. The result: both domains are back, however we will need to fight to get our top listings back.

It’s rare to see a site back before 6 months at least once banned by Google.

Doing some research, you will find, that no one really knows much more than: comply with Google’s Terms and Rules. In fact if you comply with those rules, you have at least an argument.

[yorgooads]

In stead of giving just a set of rules to follow besides those famous terms, let me just focus on the Blog-master’s attitude. For as long as you aim to deliver to your readers good content and add truthful contextual meta data, you have a good chance to remain on the safe side.

But there is more: Search Engine Optimization can back-fire when exaggerated. If you use all possible tools simultaneously to optimize your site, you may be overdoing it. A wise choice of optimization strategies and a moderate approach to marketing aggressiveness will make the difference between your site and your competitors’ publications as well as between you and those who see their sites banned. Remember the famous case of BMW, where the company site was banned for over tuning the site in a way considered as abusive. However, there are no clear rules about what is abusive and what passes the test.

Semiomantics

Semiomantics SEO Tuning

Some of the best kept secrets by Webmasters are their money making keywords and the way they tune their sites to reach Google Top rankings. At Semiomantics we permanently test settings and strategies to promote our publishing frameworks and to reach high visibility and Google Top 10 positions. Such internal test results and settings are only shared at Ycademy Online Seminars to allow participants to fully profit from our best features and strategies.

Google’s appreciation may change from time to time and what was a successful strategy yesterday, may find itself disgrace tomorrow. Permanent adjusting and adapting is necessary to remain on top of things and of … Google.

Semiomantics Customers purchase the best Framework and get a high performance product delivered at the time of the purchase. As we notice an ever faster spinning spiral of renewals, updates and upgrades on all parts of the used software, it becomes increasingly important to keep scripts and SEO Strategies up to date and adapted to the latest standards. This development is beyond our influence, however we would like to assure that our customers remain on track with their objectives and in line with the best possible SEO Standards and Strategies.

While we are not here to create content for our customers, we can provide them with an updated framework and assure the proper functioning of the site and SEO implementation to the latest standards.

Based on our time sheet tracking over the bast 6 months we notice that this involves quite some time per site per month and we will need to involve additional manpower to take care of the tasks. For this reason and to assure the best possible service we have set up our Semiomantics SEO Management Services for Semiomantics Customers as well as for webmasters using other WordPress based frameworks.

The Semiomantics SEO Management Service for Semiomantics Customers is priced on subscription bases, for the time being at $30 per month. For users of other WordPress based Frameworks the Semiomantics SEO Management Service is priced at $120 per month.

For further information, please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

Related posts:

1. Make Money with YORGOO Press
2. BuddyPress Yorgoo Media
3. YORGOO Publishing installs new Software
4. The Garden Route goes Live
5. Clone Africa YORGOO Media

Google Top 10

What is needed to reach Google Top 10 listings? Here are some quick answers.

Buy Google Ads and bid for the top spots.

To spend less on your Google Ads.

Learn the Bells and Whistles and optimize your site. It’s a full time job to keep your site on Google’s Top 10 on meaningful search returns.

Buy the knowledge you are lacking by hiring an agency or professional optimizer. Ask for references in the context of your targeted keywords. Semiomantics is the only SEO Professional announcing results ahead and reaching them.

Buy a customized and optimized framework (from Semiomantics for example) and shoot at your keyword. Learn how to drive the Online Ferrari by Semiomantics.

Hire a consultant to guide you to reach your targeted position. Pay per result. Semiomantics is the only Consultant who takes that gamble as for them SEO is not a gamble.

Define your Goal and dress a Plan — know which Goals you want to reach, what means you dispose of to reach them and how you want to reach them (plan).

At the bases there is content, good content and lots of it and regular new content.

A solid Publishing Framework, customized for your needs and target. Semiomantics is my choice as it’s about 10 times cheaper than any comparable product.

Work with a pro. At Semiomantics you have your personal contact working with you, for you and giving you the best advice. Contact Bianca Gbalke at bianca (at) ycademy.com.

Cash is the means to outsource what you cannot do by yourself. The more you spend, the more you get and the more you can do by yourself the less cash you spend. Your result has a global price.

A Plan, Time, Knowledge, Tools and Money are the ingredients to your successful campaign: you decide on your mix, however the targeted result only occurs if all ingredients are present. It’s blunt, it’s shrewd, it’s straight forward: Semiomantics will help you to implement your plan.

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics XOC
2. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics Network
3. Google Top 10 with Twitter
4. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword
5. Wave Seminar Hits Google Top 10

Facebook Marketing

The Ycademy May Seminar will focus on Facebook Marketing and on the best options to reach our Facebook Marketing goals using WordPress, namely the Semiomantics XO Framework and Theme.

The Seminar will take place on May 28 — 29, 2011 from 1 pm — 9 pm London Time on each day.

Ycademy Online Seminar May 2011

Today, Facebook and Google achieve the highest traffic rates online. For this reason we aim to merge two marketing strategies:

• Google Top 10 Positions on our targeted key-phrases.
• High visibility on Facebook with our products and services in our target market.

In order to serve the first strategy we have successfully developed a WordPress based Framework and Theme, the XO by Semiomantics.

Our Facebook Marketing strategy needs an update in function of recent changes on Facebook. Also we need to explore new functions in connection with our personal XO based websites which will allow for additional automation of the marketing process.

Each Participant will have a clear understanding of and about

• Facebook: what it is and how it works
• Facebook Tools
• How to set up and use Facebook Tools
• Facebook Best Practices
• How to Manage Facebook Marketing Efforts across Multiple Tools
• How to Link your XO and your Facebook

We will implement a basic Facebook Marketing Strategy with all participants and bring products and services in front of a targeted Facebook audience.

All materials will be provided.

We will hold 2 pre-seminar calls, probably on Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 of May.

Tickets are available at the Brain Time Shop:

Click to get your Seminar Ticket

Discount: for Ycademy Pros as usual, please contact Bianca Gubalke at bianca(at)ycademy.com.

• best facebook wordpress
• top 10 marketing widgets for facebook 2011
• online seminar 2011 marketing
• online marketing seminars 2011
• marketing wordpress facebook
• facebook worpress best 2011
• facebook marketing seminars 2011
• facebook marketing seminar
• coolest facebook pages of 2011
• best facebook wordpress widgets

Related posts:

1. Facebook Online Seminar by Ycademy
2. Ycademy Online Seminar March 2011
3. Ycademy Online Seminar April 2011
4. Ycademy Online Seminar
5. Ycademy Online Publishing Seminar

Google Grants Authority Listing to Global Sports

Authority Listings improve Search Traffic and we are glad to see that Google has granted Authority listing to Global Sports subsequent to the recent implementation of Semiomantics XO and the brand new Semiomantics SEO on the site.

Also the Global Sports Shop ranks extremely high for a shop and hits Google #1 and Top 10 with most product entries under the selected keywords.

Have a look at the Google Entry for Global:

The new Semiomantics XO framework for WordPress has been released just about a month ago and its performance is exceeding our best expectations! Also the improved Search Engine Optimization helps to dramatically improve the performance in spite of Google’s recent modifications of the Algorithm.

We are proud at Semiomantics to help our Customers achieving their goals!

• global sports us
• Custom made
• google authority listing
• mitchell and ness soulja boy
• custom made high tops
• google miejsca global sport
• address for global sports com
• folder global sport
• best sneaker prices
• sneaker custom

Related posts:

1. Best Nike Kicks at Global Sports
2. Global Sports US New Headers
3. Global Sports US
4. Global Sports $1500 Sneaker Artwork
5. Buy Nike Kicks in London at Global Sports

Knysna Cycling Accommodation

Sometimes we just want to see how much Google likes us, for example with Knysna Cycling Accommodation as key entry. Of course our friends from Garden Route Directory and YORGOO Publishing hang already out on Google Top 10 and times.yorgoopress.com is joining as well.

• knysna cape town cycling

Related posts:

1. Great Brak River Accommodation
2. Accommodation Great Brak River
3. Create your First Flash Document
4. Microsoft Office 2010 PowerPoint
5. Houseboats from South Africa on Semiomantics XO 2011

Google Top 10 — the World of Semiomantics

Semiomantics tuned WordPress and the concept of YORGOO Publishing are a powerful association. The declared primary Goal of Semiomantics is to build Websites which reach high visibility expressed by Google Top 10 positions.

Every post on our test sites are metered and the results exploited to improve Optimization, the code and the features of Semiomantics Customization.

Sure this is not a big key-phrase, but a useful one for those who are looking for How to design, create or implement an Apple Touch Icon. Our post showed the following result:

The original post shows on rank 1 on Google, followed by some other entries through the Publishing Network. Interestingly, the post on position 1 is dated February 3, indicting that the comments and updates find their way to Google as well … :-).

More interesting is the keyword Apple Touch Icons with over 11 million returns. Even here we hit Google Top 10 just ahead of Apple support and behind some big boys like YouTube and Drupal as per below:

Performance has its price: optimization is an important task and reliability of hosting another key factor to success. WordPress and Semiomantics improvements consume the longer the more server resources and it is therefore paramount to select appropriate hosting.

Semiomantics has teamed up with ChiHosters and Hosting South Africa to provide the most cost efficient hosting solutions for each customer’s needs. The spread reaches from $35 per year for small sites to thousands of dollars per year for high traffic professional sites. Servers are built specially for the needs of Semiomantics to give users yet another edge over the competition.

While ChiHosters and Hosting South Africa provide hosting to Semiomantics Commercial Customers at cost (it’s all YORGOO Group) we can assure that the running cost of a high profile site will always be at a fraction of the cost of any advertising providing similar visibility.

Contact us for more information and to discuss your project.

• google top 10 websites icons
• google icon in apple
• google websites apple touch icon
• wordpress top ranking tutorial google

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics XOC
2. WordPress Shop Version 3 by Semiomantics
3. I love Semiomantics XO
4. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics Network
5. Hosting WordPress Issues

Published 2 minutes ago!

No comment needed. If you need a high performance website which communicates fast and efficiently with Google … just contact us :-)!

• houseboats in africa

Related posts:

1. South Africa Houseboats storms Google
2. South Africa Houseboats on XO 2011
3. South Africa Houseboats move to Hosting South Africa
4. Miss Garden Route South Africa
5. Semiomantics XO 2011 Editing Interface

South Africa Houseboats on Google Top 10

The new site at South Africa Houseboats has made its entry at Google just a few hours after release this week-end. We started targeting some of our main keywords to test the performance of the site script, which is the brand new Semiomantics XO 2011.

The first results are smashing and highly visible as expected. Here below some samples. We have not yet implemented any linking strategy.

“South Africa Houseboats” is of course the first keyword we want to storm and I would guess that within the next 48 hours we will make it to the top, the domain name helping us.

A first shot leads us to rank 7 which is a nice result and confirmation for the power of Semiomantics’ optimized Website Development.

At a time where media is king, we are aiming the Google Image Search as well and using the new XO 2011 script on both sites involved in this optimized publishing process we observe a mind-blowing result:

The above are just two samples of various keywords we are aiming and there is more to come.

The experiment shows the power of XO 2011 and Semiomantics Search Engine Optimization. Please consider that the site is still under construction and that many on-site optimization strategies have not yet been implemented.

• AFRICA HOUSEBOATS IMAGES
• houseboat website in africa
• SOUTH AFRICA HOUSEBOATS IMAGES

Related posts:

1. South Africa Houseboats on XO 2011
2. South Africa Houseboats move to Hosting South Africa
3. Miss Garden Route South Africa
4. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics XOC
5. Corvette for Sale storms Google

John Lennon’s 70th Birthday

Nice commemorative shot by Google! Today’s logo shows once more where the creative people sit at Google, huh.

By the way, if you listen to the song and text, you wonder why Imagine has never become an MLM hymn :-). May be the music is not hype enough?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHCeUfoAnw

In any case, the call for “peace” and “joining the dream” is a universal one and who ever wanted at any given time, build a community, religious or just for the time of an LSD trip, has used the formula … from the good old Greeks of course (oh, the Chineese may have had it before, as well as the Egyptians and before them probably the cave men, and other Australopithecus).

The result is brilliant, the marketing works and the cash is flowing for ever as all of this remains … a dream.

PS: “In the book Lennon in America, by Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon commented that Imagine was an “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic [song], but because it’s sugar-coated, it’s accepted.”  ^Wikipedia

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics XOC
2. How to Rank Google Top 10 with your Shop
3. Google Top 10 again
4. Google Top 10 in 5 Minutes
5. Cy Ford on Google Top 10

Semiomantics for all and the Best

Semiomantics, created based on needs arising from YORGOO, a free program for Home Business Builders has evolved to a top notch business, building the probably best WordPress based websites.

In fact, this  has nothing to do with WordPress as Semiomantics can be applied to any website.

For our demo site of the new Semiomantics EVO we have chosen the famous song USA for Africa by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

May be we are not, but we contribute to make the bloggosphere a better world, no doubt! I am not a snob, or am I? In any case, I am fed up by all these ugly sites out there and statistics prove me right: a site needs to be sexy to be read and the yogurt like and minimalistic sites (like mine) are out, completely out! People just click them away since they would have to concentrate on content and who on earth wants to focus on content anyway?

Forget it, it’s about fun, entertainment, visual pleasure, music, video, … media all over!

If by any chance you are still reading, click me away and go to Semiomantics EVO to see what a sexy site has to look like. Listen to the song, read and surf and tell me: would you not like to have such a site to propagate your image, look and authority?

It’s a world of craftsmanship. A world where devoted people care about customers, their performance and success. Semiomantics has grown on the same base and with the same fertilizer as YORGOO: humans who care, professionalism and extremely performance oriented product design.

There is no hype and there is no exuberance but there is straight forward communication involving the customer all along the product development phase. There is time for talk and there is time for testing. There is care to details and there is the art of implementing the impossible!

Semiomantics is an Elite product for the best and for those who only want the best. Semiomantics is a signature applied to a site once it has proven to perform and to satisfy our unequaled design standards.

From smashing WOW-effects to minimalistic, sober elegance, semiomantics provides it all; have a look. It will depend on the designer of your project and you are free  to choose, who will work with you on your design. But you will also see that every designer has his/her style and way of perceiving and translating perception into visual communication.

Look at the samples from Bianca Gubalke for example: professional design, visual effects and care for details! Any of her sites and works stick out from the crowd and make the sites special, very special.

I don’t know of any SEO company being as transparent as Semiomantics: we announce our goals BEFORE getting there and then we just do it. I don’t know of any product online with such a track-record as Semiomantics and I have never seen anything getting even close to Semiomantics in SEO in respect of WordPress based sites or even Flash.

Have a look at the kind of websites we propelled to Google Top 10 from here; these designs have all been tuned by Semiomantics to reach top performance on their respective keywords.

Sure you will find contracts at $4000 — $5000 per month to keep your site optimized. Semiomantics does it for a fraction and scores higher than its best competitors. Too bad we have ‚such a limited capacity. On the other hand, we believe the performance of our customers is our best reference and in the fact, that we are a business where craftsmanship is, what makes the difference.

For as long as I will remain at the helm of Semiomantics, this attitude will not change and we will continue to build the best sites out there … at any price, for the benefit of our customers.

Related posts:

1. The Semiomantics Team News
2. Semiomantics XO 2010 Edition
3. Semiomantics is going private
4. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics Network
5. iPhone Publishing with Semiomantics

YORGOO Press Script for your own Newspaper

In view of this week-ends Online Publishing Seminar by Ycademy, here are the steps necessary to create your personal newspaper with YORGOO Press and to successfully complete the  curriculum.

Function of your Target Public select a theme or general topic for your newspaper. Will you be editing a Sports Newspaper or a School newspaper? Will the main priority be Finance and Economy or Gaming? In any case, your newspaper needs to be interesting for the targeted readership.

Based on the above, draw a grid of categories you will be dealing with and set priorities and importance of each section.

Decide about web design elements, such as colors and fonts.

Select a domain name for your new Publication and register it. We recommend yorGOdom for Domain Registration.

YORGOO Press provides a complete solution based on WordPress. An attractive script and layout tuned by Semiomantics, unlimited hosting and unequaled support. The package includes server side and script maintenance, set up and configuration as well as website development untill your site is indexed and listed by Google.

[info_box]For information, please contact Bianca Gubalke[/info_box]

Seminar Participants: please send us your domain name urgently so we can prepare your site for the seminar.

You will need to point your domain to the YORGOO Press servers by editing the DNS Settings on your domain host. The Nameservers are as per Bianca’s mail.

Make sure you have prepared your list of Topics (Categories) so that we can structure the sites right away.

You will need to apply your color scheme and implement your choice of typefaces to start with. Also you have the possibility to create a set of default images which will be linked to the different categories in the layout grid.

Layout modifications will be possible time permitting during the seminar.

Prepare your list of content sources, namely the feed links for importing your content first from your own author blog or other personal sites.

Your content should be reflected in the selected ads for your site. Our recommendation is to advertise first of all your own products if available. These can also be affiliate links. If you have external advertisers, make sure you have advertising materials ready as far as possible (images or text which can be formatted to fit the layout of your newspaper.

Armed with the above, you will be able to quickly do the job during the seminar and to follow the step by step instructions leading to successful completion of the seminar.

The Seminar is designed for Semiomantics Consultants who wish to add YORGOO Press to their product range and develop YORGOO Press sites for their customers. Based on YORGOO Press we will then develop a personal publishing network by implementing the unique YORGOO Publishing Model taking into account all your sites and publications.

All sites created during the Seminar will benefit from Semiomantics Optimization and be extremely aggressive in as much as search Engine Optimization is concerned. In order to preserve the advantages of Semiomantics for all Semiomantics customers and Consultants, all YORGOO Press blogs will be hosted by YORGOO Press and the scripts will be only partially accessible as for all future Semiomantics Optimized scripts.

YORGOO Press sites require special server configuration to deploy its effects fully which cannot be found on shared hosting. For this reason YORGOO Press offers to external customers hosting at minimal rates. No Fees apply for Semiomantics Consultants.

YORGOO Press sites are seen all over Google and the performance of Semiomantics Press scripts (NewsCast, YORGOOpress and Tabloid) has been proven times and again. We are looking forward to an even more exciting deployment of YORGOO Press content with the new YORGOO Press structure.

• how to create a personal newspaper online
• publish personal newspaper online
• publish personal blog newsprint
• personal online newspaper
• personal online newpaper with wordpress
• personal newspaper sports
• personal newspaper blog
• persnoal newspaper blog
• online newspaper personal blog
• how to prepare your personal news paper of the year

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Online Publishing Seminar
2. Google Top 10 Online Seminar July 2009
3. WordPress Personal CMS and Blog
4. WP Best Newspaper Theme
5. New Theme for YORGOO Press

Google Top 10 with Vegetable Garden Design

After the previous post we have implemented the set-up as discussed. The domain has been registered, hosting acquired and WordPress was set up before loading the latest version of Semiomantics XO.

Just for the fun and for a first shot at Google for indexing purposes we have posted a short post about Vegetable Garden Design and the purpose of the site.

A few minutes after the post, the site was indexed on Google and the first post listed on rank 54 of  7,450,000 search returns. A good start considering that we have not yet configured the site.

Now we need to configure the framework and site scripts properly in order to get best visibility and publishing quality.

The principal keyword is “Vegetable Garden Design” and we added some sub-keywords to end up with the following for the purpose of this exercise:

• Vegetable Garden Design
• Vegetable Garden Design News
• Vegetable Garden Design Trends
• Vegetable Garden Design Tips
• Best Vegetable Garden Design

Here we apply a standard configuration whereas we use our main keywords as category slugs. We also add some plugins namely for tracking, networking and to enhance our permalinks.

This part concerns some work on the semantics of the publication. As these settings are customized for each publication, they take time and need some fine tuning over the next few days and may be weeks to assure the Publication gets positioned perfectly where we intend it to be on Google.

this is not a web design exercise; for this reason I will just leave the site with a standard XO style sheet. May be at a later stage we will do some work there.

Now we need to compile some content to get quickly some first Google rankings.

I will be back when the step 2 is accomplished.

• veg garden designs
• google images vegetable
• best garden configuration
• google garden design
• top ten garden designs
• vegetable website design
• google top 10 vegetable plants
• vegetable garden configuration
• google vegetable garden design
• google vegetable garden planner

Related posts:

1. How to Reach Google Top 10 in 5 Steps
2. Google Top 10 with Web Design
3. Miss Garden Route on Google
4. Build your Flash Website Step 2
5. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 2

5 Steps to grab Vegetable Garden Design

Today just a little challenge: how to grab quickly Google Top 10 Positions with “Vegetable Garden Design”, a tough but rewarding key word. I take the opportunity to demonstrate the power of Semiomantics by following step by step a typical niche blog set up using Semiomantics WordPress technology and scripts.

This post describes Step 1 of our 5 Step strategy

A keyword related domain is a clear advantage. “Vegetal Garden Design” being taken on TLDs I tried the next clsosest by using the plural: Vegetable Garden Designs as a .com.

I just got a cheap hosting for $35 per year with unlimited disk-space and bandwidth from ChiHosters.

Set up WordPress either by using Fantastico or manually.

This is what I consider the best publishing Framework … what else!

Look forward to the next step: I will now execute this one on the new site targeting Vegetable Garden Design

• domain names garden design
• vegetal names
• vegetal name
• Google images — garden
• vegetables name
• vegetable names
• vegetable google
• vegatable garden domain names
• steps to setting vegetable garden
• google image vegetable

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 with Web Design
2. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword
3. Miss Garden Route on Google
4. Google Top 10 with Twitter
5. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 2

Clacton Airshow 2010 Images

The Clacton Airshow 2010 attracts again loads of spectators and hobby as well as professional photographers. Taking a picture is one thing, getting it to the top of Google is yet another story.

Zo Nicholas has beaten them all with the publication of her images, using a Semiomantics XO Publishing Framework.

The topic is still hot and there are a lot of changes on the Google Top 10 on Clacton Airshow 2010 Images.

Here the first hot screen-shot I took last night:

Zo comes in right after the BBC and ahead of YORGOO on Google rank 2. Note at the bottom Ycademy.com on rank 10!

Zo Nicholas site is hooked to the YORGOO Publishing Network and she contributes to various publications. The effect is evident: the publishing power of the network assures rapid deployment and high visibility of content.

As you saw above, 3 top 10 entries in just a few hours. However the deployment was not over at this stage.

When I looked at the issue early this morning, the face had changed:

A second wave shows still 3 top 10 positions with Garden Route Publishing on the number 2 spot (Garden Route Publishing has just been upgraded to the brand new Semiomantics XO Media Framework which will be released later this year).

Surprise, surprise, there comes a good old YORGOO Blaster in as well on rank 2! and finally Ycademy, this time on rank 9.

Just an hour later, this is what I get right now:

Zo Nicholas on rank 5 and YORGOO Publishing on rank 10; and I am sure it will change again during the day as the deployment is not finished yet. Also I would expect this post to become visible soon, as well as another post I loaded the Destinations Expo :-).

Related posts:

1. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword 3
2. Syros Images on Google and YouTube
3. Google Top 10 with Semiomantics Network
4. Social Network Publishing 2
5. Buy Nike Kicks in London at Global Sports

Ycademy Online Seminar August 2010

The schedule of the the Ycademy August Seminar is rather big and will take a lot of preparation. As we are building a new site for the purpose of commercializing Stock Media, we would appreciate to know as soon as possible the names of the Seminar Participants in order to be able to create the privileged accounts before the event.

The new website, Photo Stock Media is built on an extended server cluster on which we host this site as well as Hiod. You may have noticed a somewhat bumpy ride these days, the reason being the additional server capacity which needs to be added. I cannot guarantee, that the troubles are over, but we are doing our best to build the site and to make it available as soon as possible.

The load of the Photo Stock Media Seminar imposes some pre-seminar calls to get acquainted with the software and its behavior. We will invite Seminar participants as soon as we have the registrations to open test accounts on the new site.

I am pleased with the behavior and look of the Semiomantics XO customization at iPhone 4 Photos. This is a niche site focusing on photos taken with the iPhone 4. Similar niches can be created for other purposes using Semiomantics XO. The interest is in the fact that the pictures are hardly ever commented and yet find their way to Google Top 10, be it from iPhone4Photos or through the Publishing Network. The site under it’s main keyword ranks just within the top 40 amongst 425 000 000 search returns.

This site helps us to improve the semantics used in connection with media, especially with photos and video. Also we are testing linking the Photo Media Stock site from and to Semiomantics scripts.

If you experience problems with your registration for the August seminar, please contact Bianca; she will find a way to accommodate you. As the HIOD site is hosted on the same server where we are building all the goodies for the seminar, temporary down-times are possible. Nevertheless we will need the test team to start exploring the site before the end of this week.

Enjoy this call free week … but keep following up the news on the blog.

• extended server cluster
• publishing photo stock

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Seminar August 2010
2. Madiblue Photo in leading Magazine
3. Digital Media Design Online Seminar
4. Social Media Marketing Seminar
5. Google Top 10 Media Strategy

Photos from Syros with Google top 10 rankings

Our earlier posts about Syros Boats and Syros Architecture made it immediately to Google top 10 positions and so did our slide-shows, loaded to YouTube. This is remarkable since the Syros is a tourist destination and Google is just invaded by all the international and national directories.

Semiomantics frameworks publish images more efficiently;y than anything I have come across and the development continues to make Semiomantics users get the best SEO when it comes to publish any form of media.

Syros Images on Google Top 10

• Google Images syros
• SYROS top 10

Related posts:

1. Syros Images
2. Butterfly Images on YouTube
3. Syros Boats
4. Wave Seminar Hits Google Top 10
5. Google Top 10 Dominate your Keyword

Life in a Day on Google Top 10

Our somewhat different point of view about Life on a Day made it to Google Top 10 under Life in a Day News amongst 920,000,000 search returns!

Life in a Day News on Google Top 10

Rank 8 with just one shot demonstrates once more the Power of Semiomantics Frameworks  as well as its Quality of Editing and Publishing of highly visible content.

As the Life in a Day project is a going concern, I would expect the topic to remain hot for a while, namely in connection with all the YouTube clips which attract quite some visitors.

Related posts:

1. Life in a Day
2. Wave Seminar Hits Google Top 10
3. Create your First Flash Document
4. WordPress Hosting News
5. Convert PowerPoint to Flash

Implement your Flash Showcase

Once your script is cleaned out and reduced to what you actually need as described yesterday and as done at last night’s Ycademy call, we can implement our project.

Before uploading you may already edit the index.html file and add the title of your site as well as the font as the case may be.

Also you can edit style.css to define link colors and other details if needed.

You may also want to edit your site logo:

Ideally the logo file is a transparent PNG image which in this case can be rather wide since we have just a few menu items. The bottom border of the logo is in line with the bottom of the menu items; therefore it is indicated to use capitals for the site header and align them with the bottom of the PNG file.

Example:

Semiomantics Header

For better visibility I have added a background layer on the above. The dimensions are 592 x 60 pixels.

Before uploading the evolution folder you may want to rename it to the folder name it should take on the server; if you upload the site to the domain root (public_html) then you just load the content of the evolution folder without the folder itself.

Once uploaded you may want to start adding a background image (photo of graphic); I have loaded just a background pattern:

Background

For this project I keep a uniform background throughout the whole site; however i would be nice as well to create a nice graphic grunge or photographic background.

Edit menu.xml from your xml folder: define the menu item titles and backgrounds as well as the copyright notice in the footer.

I start now by adding images to my showroom. In fact I am using for this project a showroom gallery instead of the about page: I will oad there graphic images representing my bullet list and then add text to the image legends.

About Semiomantics

The images are created in photoshop in 2 versions: jpg and transparent png. I load both versions to select later the images to keep — may be a mix of jpg and png images. To create the images I just created two layer sizes: 400 x 600 px and 800 x 600 px. Important: the images must be 600 px high. I drop my messages into the pictures using some grungy Times font and using background colors based on my usual color scheme.

The idea here is to use a gallery to replace the About page by graphically representing the main message I want to deliver and allowing for more information attached to each image. (This way of proceeding is not in line with the terms of the contest!)

For the show case I selected screen-shots of websites I have designed and built for Semiomantics. I have selected 30 screen-shots to see the effect and to measure loading time. I will trim this down later and make a representative selection out of the lot. There are also others I may want to add …:-).

Semiomantics Showcase

The screen-shots are mega sizes from 100 kb to over 400 kb, whereas they will be adjusted for faster loading. I am testing flash compression and loading them as swf files which is one of the advantages of this gallery script.

A legend will be associated with each screen-shot; each image is based on a Semiomantics script type or module and can therefore be linked to a category or product in the semiomantics shop.

My recommendation: try to keep the image size as compact as possible for fast loading: ideally below 100 kb per image.

More later.

Related posts:

1. Ycademy Easter Contest 2
2. Ycademy Easter Contest
3. Web Design Workshop 16 — Scroll over Background
4. Build your Flash Website
5. Photoshop Ycademy