Hi List, I've been playing around with SMS and the web for a while, and wanted to create a service that you text message me random words from the dictionary so I could improve my vocabulary over time. In the process of researching all of the different data sources for vocabulary, I realized that dictionary.com and m-w.com were both so cluttered. I decided to reinvent the wheel and produce a dictionary view of my own that would be simple, yet comprehensive enough to satisfy most basic information searches. For example:
http://www.increasemyvocabulary.com/definition/of/beautiful/ I also created a simple form that would allow people to sign up for my SMS service: http://www.increasemyvocabulary.com/subscriptions/subscribe/ Everything is written in PHP, and my total time in the project right now is about 30 hours. I have a few questions: 1. Can you critique my site and let me know what you would like to see different? 2. I'm getting ranked for long-tail keywords on Google already, and every day my site gets more and more indexed. I have 400 pages on Google now (it's been 2 weeks), with a total possibility of 150,000 pages (one for each word in the dictionary). Is there anything I can be doing now to get my pages ranking well in the long term? I understand I'm not going to be on the first page for much of anything at this point, but given a year or two of SEO I'm thinking I can get a decent portion of my content on the front page for long tail key word searches. For example, I'm already ranking for "plant wax" and "genus fomes". Super weird words that people rarely search and write content about, so I show up. 3. Any ideas on how I get people to want to legitimately link to my site? I understand this may require building new features. Thanks! Kirk Ouimet [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cell: (801) 310-1421 _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
