How to improve searchability of your home education posts.
I’m generally talking about on blogs here – places like facebook have odd privacy rules that means it’s difficult to say what is searchable and what isn’t.
The best way to raise the profile of something you’ve enjoyed is to publicise it. Link to it on your blog, and make the link text (that bit that goes blue when you mouse over it) say something with keywords in it eg home education according to grit as I’ve done here.
If you don’t know how to do that, I’ll try to stick a tutorial on here sometime soon 
Feel free to leave a comment to ask so that I know there is interest.
Other ways of building links are to use the various link building tools that ppl may have. For example here on my blog there’s a little gizmo at the bottom of each post that lets you post the link on delicious, digg and various other sites. The more links from that sort of site, the more authorative the source of the link is deemed to be and the more often it will be found in search engines.
Blogs can also be deemed more authorative depending on how many regular readers they have. So sign up to a feed reading service, and add your favourite blogs to it. Google offers one, there are a variety of others.
And conversely, if you don’t like a post, don’t link it. On the web there’s not really any such thing as bad publicity, so even if you link to something to complain about it you’ve still raised its profile. Food for thought.
hope this helps
can i suggest we all link to here
http://homeeducationstoriesuk.blogspot.com/
as well, because it was the start of an excellent resource
[and jax, i have swine flu, and hve never done the linky thing in comments!]
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ooh, it just worked, well, isn’t that fab! [you may recognise some of the stories, as i thought it was a good place to put our memes!]
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looks like a great thing to start with
I’d forgotten about it tbh!
I would love to know how to do a link – i’m only able to include an actual web adress, I can’t for the life of me work out how to embed a fancy link underneath some text!
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Hi Jax, I was able to put a highlighted link on my blog, so clicking on it would take you straight to publicised website. Recently I have been unable to do that. I dont know what Ive done to ‘switch’ this tool off. Any ideas?
Hi Jax, I was able to put a highlighted link on my blog, so clicking on it would take you straight to publicised website. Recently I have been unable to do that. I dont know what Ive done to ’switch’ this tool off. Any ideas?
I dont know where my brain has gone today as the above 2 comments dont link to my blog lol. Hopefully Ive got it right this time! If anyone finds my mising brain plz let me know!
you were missing the .com after blogspot, have fixed it in your last comment