SEO means Search Engine Optimisation. The art of getting noticed on a search engine. The info below should help you in getting yourselves noticed.

Please make sure you tag all your media, to help when people search for your kinda thing... Whatever that is.

This month alone we've had 839 hits from 41 countries, resulting in 4,055 individual page views,

Visitors viewed on average 4.83 pages per visit and stayed on our site for an average of 4 minutes & 40 seconds per visit. And it's been a quiet month.

The more we share, the more we get noticed. People from all over the world are looking for creative work, but if it's not tagged... how can we ever find you.

Below is a list of all the countries we've had hit's for so far this month. We think it's impressive. We're seriously putting Stoke on Trent on the map!

1. United Kingdom   
2. Montenegro 
3. United States   
4. Turkey 
5. Spain   
6. France   
7. Serbia   
8. Australia   
9. India  
10. Germany 
12. Netherlands  
13. Canada 
14. Côte d’Ivoire  
15. Sweden   
16. Austria   
17. Ireland   
18. Greece  
19. Romania   
20. Brazil   
21. Cyprus 
22. Portugal  
23. Kazakhstan   
24. Senegal 
26. Denmark   
27. Uganda   
28. Ukraine   
29. Colombia  
30. Argentina
31. Lithuania  
32. Bosnia and Herzegovina   
33. Peru  1  
34. Malaysia 
36. Latvia  
37. Kuwait 
38. Belgium  
39. Egypt 
40. Switzerland 
41. Chile

113 Different Keyword phrases used by the public to find culturingstuff through search engines.

Unlike a single business website trying to get found amongst everything on the net, culturingstuff links every blog and profile, picture or piece of music/audio you add and uses the power of links and community, which in turn helps your ratings on google.

All you have to do is effectivley tag your media and profile.

bellow are 113 different (and very real public search requests) which I've just grabbed from our stats. This list gives you an example of how people type into search engines.

Use phrases to tag your work, rather than single keywords. Place your "PHRASE IN QUOTES" like this to join the words together as a phrase. Think local first, and then global.

1. culturing stuff 
2. culturingstuff 
3. what shop is owned by pete bromley in stoke  
4. hypnotise greg wilson 
5. john carpenter the end sound version  
6. culturingstuff.com 
7. dr. brent menninger  
8. avantt gardee culturing stuff 
9. funk edits 
10. hypnotic are you lonely 
11. sugardaddy hypnotise 
12. www.culturingstuff.com 
13. "a man can't fly" 
14. "clare white"+"mill hill"  
15. "eddie c" "my woman"  
16. "gecko programmes" dan future jobs fund   
17. "potteries pyramid" stoke  
18. "the man of fire" in stoke-on-trent   
19. +"indian classical music" +hindustani +england +organisers +contact +address +club   
20. 2010/2011 timber association members @hotmail.com.sg  
21. 87.7fm hanley   
22. a man can't fly stoke  
23. african drum bands  
24. andrée alison @hotmail.com@yahoo.com@aol@gmail.com   
25. aretha franklin - ny jump (bc edit) 
26. aretha franklin - ny jump - bc edit mp3  
27. art and craft shops exhibitors directory "aol com"   
28. art galleries in burslem   
29. artwaves burslem   
30. brent menninger   
31. bruno santos  
32. bruno santos art   
33. bruno santos artist   
34. concerts of sugato bhaduri in europe in 2010  
35. cukturing stuff  
36. cultring stuff   
37. cultureing stuff   
38. culturing  
39. culturing stuff devils disco   
40. culturing stuff] 
41. culutruring stuff  
42. curtis mayfield love me love me now remix   
43. dave woolley kamara  
44. david wynne sculpture   
45. david wynne's spectacular sculpture   
46. david wynne, sculptor / ' teamwork'
47. digital art dat festival stoke on trent  
48. disability choir in stoke on trent   
49. disco deviance - do it (out in the sticks edit)  
50. dopsey  
51. etta james - in the basement theo parrish re-edit   
52. eveniments in stoke on trent  
53. feiweles trust and schools 2010-2011 
54. fiona.gallerycrafts@gmail.com   
55. funk ferret  
56. google- up coming international journalist conferences,workshops,trainings, fellowships 2010-  
57. i have sense terror in a handful of dust   
58. jane feiweles doctor yorkshire   
59. jasbir bansal naked   
60. john carpenter the end sound  
61. john carpenters the end disco version 
62. julie newbold travel journals 
63. kelvin andrews antiplano "spirit" tracklisting  
64. kulturing stuff  
65. learn to draw stoke on trent  
66. learning platform harpfields primary hartshill   
67. leeka art    
68. lise thexton fitness competion june 2010 
69. lost in music (the revenge rework) 320kps   
70. lost in music revenge 320 
73. mandiani diane harper drumming  
74. mounace120 
75. mt eden sierra leone artwork 
76. music festiva at deeside horticultural college  
77. napier church glasgow/ volunteers fordisabled childrens art group   
78. natasha lewer  
79. nowakowski sculpture   
80. oggys bar hanley 
81. piccadilly circus the unicorn hanley   
82. retro synth john carpenter 
84. rubber soul records  
85. saranjit birdi 
86. sculpture competitions asia 2011  
87. shraboni ghosal 
88. sister sledge - lost in music (the revenge rework) 
89. sister sledge lost in music the revenge rework remix 
90. site:affiliate.kickapps.com affiliate kickapps service sketchup   
91. site:http://affiliate.kickapps.com/service 
92. staffordshire county council getty lane wombourne  
93. stoke on trent shelton 12 milton str  
94. sugar daddy - hypnotize  
95. sugar daddy hypnotise  
96. t coy - carino 
97. t- coy - carino  
98. tcoy carino 320  
99. tectonic plates ceramics 
100. tectonic plates new english 
101. the hanley statue the spiky man 
103. the revenge lost in music 320  
104. the winking frog hanley  
105. tickets for craig david in hanley park  
106. vinyl vs mp3  
107. where winking frog hanley  
108. wonk in wonderland  
109. wootton's of longton, stoke-on-trent   
110. www.porno teachersrecent hube 
111. you tube i dont wanna be normal randy crawford harrison fraud   
112. "gecko programmes" dan future jobs fund dan grove  
113. record shops in stoke 
 

If you see your name in the list, then it means someone has searched you or your creative business or service and found culturingstuff (at the very least) and at the best, the link may go straight to your profile or a piece of your work (if the tags are on your profile). Please remember though... "30 characters max in quotes" like this. I use a mixture of single and multiple word phrases in my tagging.

To kinda finish off, this little SEO tutorial, think of it like this...

This page is now filled with keyword phrases. But they're all random. If a certain phrase is used several times. Such as "dance music stoke" it will become prominant. Google will recognise the extra use of certain phrases and deem them more relevant than other phrases. Don't try to cheat. Just write from the heart and the rest will follow.

To get one page to the top of a search is difficult if everyone is chasing the same phrase. Imagine how many sites have the keyphrase "photography" in them. Then consider the pro's in that field and how developed their homepages must be. This is who you are competing against. If you become more specific, you'll get less hits but more targeted traffic. Imagine using "contemporary photography stoke". That phrase is more considered and less people use it, so less are competing. You may get more hit's by thinking local... then global.

But if you write an indepth blog, with multi-media (it can all be added using culturingstuff) and write a fair amount on your chosen subject and tag it well. Google sees your blog and as long as you've put more work in than your competitors... you'll rate well. It all depends on the market you're trying to get noticed in.

For help on what search terms are currently being used try GOOGLE INSIGHTS for SEARCH

Hope that helps... vids coming soon (if I ever get any sleeep)

GET NOTICED !!!

with LOve x