My latest project, 6d6Fireball.com, is slight change in direction for me. Rather than just being a blog it will be selling fantasy miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons that we manufacture. Its a combination of my web skills, a friend’s knowledge of manufacturing and our joint love of role playing games.

At the moment the site is very basic blog with only one or two posts but it will be growing very rapidly. It is involving extensive planning as there are a large number of keywords available but generally the amount of traffic they each attract is small. So our policy is one of creating sticky content (see Friendly Affordable SEO) but will require as vast amount writing. Of course links mater as well as content so I will be making extensive use of Micelife.

I have a new web site out so expect to see several articles promoting it in Micelife. In fact, the first one is in SEO Purgatory right now. Its Friendly Affordable SEO and as its name suggests, about affordable SEO. There is a selection of SEO articles along with an SEO blog covering news and site updates.

I’ve registered a new domain called Friendly Affordable SEO.com. There is nothing there yet, just a place-holder but that will change soon. I’ve written about 20,000 words on SEO techniques that I plan to share. I’m not sure exactly what format it will take, blog, ebook or something else but it will be up soon. More news when I have it.

I’m a big fan of the Nintendo DS but I don’t play it a lot. What I like about it is its versatility and great design. |t and similar handheld devices offer new ways of interacting with the world and are great devices for teaching people new skiils. I write about this on Myomancy. Now new game has that I was so smitten by that I’ve set up a web site all about it: Guitar Hero: On Tour

Award winning, best selling author of the Discworld novels, Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In typical style, Terry has decided to use his fame to draw attention to the low levels of funding for research into Alzheimer’s. He has given £500,000 ( $1,000,000 ) to research and has been round the TV and radio stations raising awareness of this terrible but often hidden disease.

In response, the millions of Discworld fans are coming together for Match It For Pratchett. A campaign to match Terry’s £500,000 with £500,000 raised from fans around the world. In just four days, £35,000 has been collected.

If you are a fan of the Discworld or want to help fight a disease which, in Terry’s words, “which strips away your living self a bit at a time” then please donate. There is a donation jar on the web site plus full details of how to give directly to various national charities.

P.s. I’m also the web master for Match It For Pratchett so their may be less updates around here for a while.

My latest blog project is Superflat Art. Most people are not aware of Superflat but it is one of the hottest areas in art. Its a Japanese pop-art movement that blends manga / anime imagery with social commentary on the otaku (the obsessive fan-boy culture). Artists such as Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, Mahomi Kunikata, Yoshitomo Nara, Aya Takano, Koji Morimoto, Hitoshi Tomizawa, Henmaru Machino and many others from Kaikai Kiki Co. and Studio 4°C workshops are all part of the Superflat movement.

From an SEO view point the keyword is Superflat though all the artists names are secondary keywords. The domain was purchased about a week ago, and the first posts on the site, a couple of days later. I’ve just added Google analytics, a sitemap and submitted the URL to Yahoo and Google. Based on past experience, the site should start appearing in the listings with the next week.

As covered in How Long Does It Take Before Articles Appear in Google?, articles from the Tintin and Dyslexia experiments are starting to appear in Google.

All ten of the Tintin and all ten of dyslexia articles now show up. Today is is the 24th September so it has taken almost two weeks since they were spidered by the Googlebot. However they are not showing up when you do a link search on Google. e.g. ‘LINK:domainname.com’. This isn’t surprising as the link search is always inaccurate with many links missing. Also not surprisingly, there has been no impact on Myomancy’s and Tintin Movie’s ranking in Google for the target keywords.

Four of the articles from the Tintin and Dyslexia experiments have appeared in Google.

One was created on the 3rd September and spidered by Google on the 10th. The other three were created on the 4th September and spidered on the 11th. Today is the 19th September so its taken seven days to get spidered and another eight or nine days before appearing in Google search results.

There seems no pattern to which articles have appeared. Nine articles also written on the 3rd and spidered on the 10th have not yet appeared. Hopefully these will start showing up in the index over the next couple of days. There has been notable change in the target’s position in the search results and are not showing up as a link when I do a Google search for ‘link:<website URL>’

Just spotted and fixed a couple bugs. The first broke any links from any articles in SEO Heaven and the second prevented Google indexing dates from being displayed on the Best Articles page. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Google indexed six of the articles in my efforts to boost Tintin Movie .org into the top ten for Tintin. These are not showing in Google yet but I expect that will happen in a couple of days.