Rick Lomas

Last week I was trying to get my site indexed in Google so I had to ask Google to consider it again for indexing, I’d never done this before, so I didn’t hold out too much hope. But today I went along to Google.com and entered site:http://www.motorhomesalesuk.co.uk and low and behold there were 4 results! [...]

Following on from last night, Jorge asked: Q: So you need to type in canvassofthemind.wordpress.com but what about if people don’t know the website name and are searching for close matches e.g Art history courses by Deborah Monteiro? A: Welcome to the World of SEO! It’s a constant struggle to get ranked in the search [...]

This is continued on from Jorge’s questions about Wordpress.com – I was actually amazed that I could find his blog at the top of Google, just by searching for what was in his title bar (albeit a bit weird). This goes to show the power of using wordpress.com as your blog and having your primary [...]

A few more questions from Jorge who is making a website using Wordpress.com blog as a Content Management System: Q: Would you mind taking a look at the website and tell me how we can re-fit an image to cover the area of the back patterned default image A: Dashboard>Appearance>Header Image – experiment a bit [...]

Update: Wed March 20th 2013. Since making the video here I think the code for Facebook like boxes has changed quite radically, so I might have to make a new video. Also this site is now using Thesis 2 which is quite different too. I’m going to install one on MotorhomeBusiness.com later on this week [...]

GoDaddy.com don’t do .co.uk domains anymore, but I had one stuck in there. Normally if you want to move the registrar with a .co.uk domain name it is very straightforward, you just tell the current registrar to update the IPSTAG to the tag owned by the new registrar and that is it. After much looking [...]

I do have a few sites (about 3 I think) that have never been indexed by Google, so it’s my task to try and sort them out and tell you how I’m going about it.  It seems to be no coincidence that the sites in question are using scraped content which is pretty low quality, [...]

My friend Jorge who I met in Serre Chevalier, France last year has been making a site using Wordpress as a Content Management System, he had a few questions about it which he asked me about on Facebook, but it’s stuff worth sharing so I thought it would make some good content here on Indexicon. [...]

This site is made by using a self hosted Wordpress installation: you follow these steps: Buy a domain name from a registrar, somewhere like GoDaddy.com Buy some webhosting from a web host company, somewhere like HostGator.com Download Wordpress from Wordpress.org and install by FTP (or Cpanel/Fantastico) Set your nameservers at the registrar to whatever is [...]