Two nights ago I put up a new blog, The KeyWord Kove Blog. I look for hot keyword searches and write up a blurb or short article on the subject. Keywords are used by the search engines to determine the most relevant information to return for a given search. One of the words that I found had been referred to earlier in the day on a forum post that I had read. I did the post last evening. When I looked at my traffic logs for the new blog today I notices a Google search that had resulted in a visit. I followed the link TO THIS GOOGLE SEARCH. It is on an international version of Google, but the post was returned in the number one spot:

The KeyWord Kove is an experiment in the power of keywords. The blog is less than 48 hours old and located on sub-domain space. The post was less than 12 hours old when the search that returned the KeyWord Kove article was carried out.

If one has any doubts this should be a strong indicator of the power of keywords. I will be interested in further developments, and I will keep you informed.

As I was doing my update to the directory page I noticed that things were seriously out of whack with The Cartoon Page. I had started a rebuild on the site, putting the cartoons into galleries by category, but I evidently got distracted and had left things in a less than optimum state. There was a box for a left nav section, but I had never filled out my list so the box was blank. I had ad space on the right but no ads there. And the site was still a full fluid layout that could get strange with images.

I brought the design up to the current state of my art. I still have to redo the galleries, but I did the necessary mods on the templates and tested them. There are a few operations required on each gallery, but everything is done by software now that the templates are available. That will save many hours over doing it all by hand. I uploaded the new front page and gallery index page, and the other necessary support files to make it all work. When I finish this post I will put the galleries through the wringer and upload them.

I also need to take a new screen shot and upload it to the directory site. Then it will be on to other things. I have posted a bit of content to a couple of sites including a new blog that I put up last evening – The KeyWord Kove Blog. This new blog is an experiment into the power of keywords. Now if the bots will only pay attention we may see how the experiment goes.