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Analyzing articles

For my main ‘showcase’ of my findings in IDS fair, I analyzed two different articles: One by me, and one by PiMyLifeUp. I highlighted important aspects of the articles, and began to discuss their strategies. I did some extra, detailed research on how the use of keywords supports the search engine’s promotion of people’s website. I also added comments so I know what to write as comments, pointing out the strategies used.

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Google search console & currents statistics

Today, I used the google search console to monitor and set up my website’s statistics. This is useful because I can determine which articles are performing best and can then figure out what the most effective way of optimizing the search engine is. I started by figuring out what a TXT record is. It’s basically something services use to verify you own a domain. In this case, it’s used for Google Search Console. It’s not…

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Learning journey, account ban

Today, I wrote a learning journey. I spent a fair amount of effort on it, check it out! (Why do we trust tutorials?). I also opened up instagram on my computer for unrelated business but found that I was logged in to a new account I created a few weeks ago (piproficient). It had been banned, so I needed to submit an appeal form. This included writing on a piece of paper to prove that…

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Asked to unblock website

Today, It wasn’t a long session. I logged on, remembered my website was blocked, and sent an E-mail to my mentor to request its unblocking. I also tried to sign up for Monster Insights, a Search Engine Opitmization tool. After entering information, confirming my account, etc.., it asked me for a credit card to ‘verify’ my account. No thanks. So, not so productive. But, I’m planning on doing more this afternoon, when I get home.

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SSL certificate – and trying to secure an interview

This session I, I created an epic SSL certificate – it makes the little checkmark next to the domain in the web address. I also sorted out the fact that BlueHost (my hosting provider) did not show me the site so I could log in, so I just created a new site at http://piproficient.com/web. Lastly, I emailed the creators of http://pimylifeup.com to hopefully ask them some questions about how they got their site so popular…

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