Tricia didn’t like the banner that we had up, so I have updated to a modified version of the old banner.  Unfortunately for me I’m seeing three different versions of the banner, and I’m not sure why that is.  I wonder if any of our users are seeing anything but the old banner with the logo put over top of it.

I also did some stuff with the Google Webmaster Tools.  The main reason is so that I can be informed of issues with the site if they come up.  Google recently sent out an email to people who are signed up for Google Webmaster Tools, who have sites with older versions of WordPress running the site.  This seems like a good thing to find out this sort of information.

The site now ranks number two for the search for Tricia Rasku.  This was not as we wanted it (it was ranking third or fourth) but now it’s much better.  The entire first page is pages that are related to Tricia Rasku of TR By Hand.  This is part of the effort to get good organic SEO happening, and also we’re working on getting good paid SEO happening too.  We are not convinced that paid SEO is really the way to go, our experience with that with Datse Multimedia Productions is that it will drive traffic to your site, but unless you use good keywords that relate to the site by themselves they won’t drive quality traffic to the site (the keyword that drove all the traffic to the site was “Canada”).

Added a site map to the site, and submitted it to the top four search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask).  This may not be necessary, but it’s a good step in getting search engines to see the whole site, and not just a little piece of it.

Any questions as to how I chose to do all these things are certainly welcome.  I may choose to respond to them here, or in more depth on the Datse Multimedia Productions website.  For now I’m happy to share the general information which I have shared here.

Thank you for being patient with us while we have been working on little things on the website a bit at a time.  This website will be really quite interesting when we get everything we were planning on up and running on here.  It’s unfortunately been a bit slow so far.  Hopefully soon it will be starting to take more shape.