Day 18: Incubator – Number 1 Ranking
The Halloween weekend yielded mixed results. Let’s start with some funny but good news…
As of tonight, I am Rank 1 on Page 1 on Yahoo for the keyword phrase, “stompernet incubator”. This is higher than the actual StomperNet Incubator website which is at rank 2. On Google, I am rank 4.
For the keyword phrase, “business diaries” I am rank 3 out of 54 million results on Yahoo. Admittedly, I’m nowhere near Page 1 on Google for this. For other keyword phrases like “stompernet incubator review”, I’m respectably on page 1 for both Yahoo and Google. The kind where you don’t have to scroll down to see me.
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Day 17: Incubator – Half-full Website
The arrival of good news gave me a big adrenaline boost to start my StomperNet hours. My Paypal issues with StomperNet appear to have been resolved. I just need to make some calls on the next weekday to confirm that I can use the software tools. I can’t wait.
My 17th day as a StomperNet Incubee finds me cramming everything I can learn about Joomla. Out of 10 web pages, I now have finished 5 of them. My Newbie estimate of catching up with my classmates by Monday still looks about right. Tomorrow I finish the remaining 5 then on Sunday, I work on the daily Incubator concepts I got behind on. I’m really excited for Monday. I get to ask for feedback on my spanking new website.
Day 16: Incubator – The Hard Way
Ha ha ha! So Mambo and Joomla are more or less the same. And Weebly.com takes up to 48 hours to setup if you already have an existing domain with another host. 
The Thesis theme under Wordpress is not free and neither is Semiologic. Through a friend’s laptop, I got to play around with XSitePro. It has lots of Newbie-friendly themes but they don’t look very professional. XSitePro does have better looking themes but Newbie-friendliness goes downhill when you want to do customizations. I can see how XSitePro can be useful for creating those Squeeze Pages and sub websites quickly. But it does not look like it can give a good foundation for your main website.
