As “Publishing for Excellence” at “Web Design with Passion” demands consistent learning, experimenting, an adaptation to trends and almost daily reassurance of the script’s leading SEO performance, the global Semiomantics Team is currently testing the new script and exploring different ways of presenting themselves or their products and services online.

I am very pleased with the more adventurous ways we can explore with the new Semiomantics XO 2012 for WordPress… and I know we haven’t even started! I am looking forward to creating the Wedding Website on this extraordinary WordPress based script.

With sliders being an important part of the Trend 2012 as Website Design and “the Look” are concerned, I am currently experimenting with a fading slider – although extremely frustrating with often failing Internet connections and extremely slow lines down here… it feels like the sun flare is targeting us specifically and knocking us out completely!

Besides using sliders in the header or sidebar widgets or even blog posts and pages, we can now use them even in the background – which opens a lot more creative options and perspective.

At the Ycademy Seminar, we will work on becoming familiar with the new features of the XO 2012 and improve our knowledge of CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery so we are in a position to ‘play’ with the script, explore new avenues and, last but not least, adapt XO to our customers’ needs.

To be continued. . .

As you can see on the above screenshot, my article on Hot Water is on Google Top 10 right away… and this on 14 million search returns! That’s what I call cool – and it’s Semiomantics, what else?

Jokes aside, this is indeed a fantastic SEO performance – and here I am not talking about my own performance but that of  Monkey Valley Resort – the new website I am still completing! Seeing it grabbing positions 3 and 4 on Google Top 10 within just a few minutes just makes my heart smile!  Results like these – especially where my customers are concerned – give me the daily kick to continue these sometimes really not easy and very strenuous and time-consuming tasks, especially on terribly slow connections these days and a computer that’s running regularly out of memory… I will have to live with this for a small while still… but can’t wait to upgrade… drastically that is!

Besides, I was told that as per mid 2012 we may have optic fibre cables in South Africa and connections comparable to Europe… they’re as far as Nigeria… and we are at the far tip of the continent. So there’s hope and more on that in another post :)

PayPal and E-Tourism Africa on Google shows a major ranking result: position one of 48,300,000 search returns – within 24 seconds!

YEBO! Welcome to the Formula One on the Internet!

That’s Web Design South Africa – fast, visible, efficient and mega attractive! Oh yes: and it’s affordable too – which means Fun and along the principles of “Ubuntu”!

Just talk to me – details on my CONTACT or NAME tab!

Performance stands before attraction – first our articles and media content have to be found by those looking for it… once that first step has been accomplished, it’s all about captivating the visitor’s attention with good information presented in an attractive and user-friendly way.

Reaching Google Top 10 always deserves at least a little mental celebration as it’s proof of hard work and dedication – even and especially with a script like the WordPress based Semiomantics XO! While one should be used to this kind of extraordinary performance, it still astounds me to this day…

Having said this, let’s look at what our various articles on the  “Eid ul-Fitr Celebrations 2011″ have achieved so far on Google…

To start with, here’s the first shot: Position 1 on Google on 2,990,000 results within 13 minutes! Celebration! I know that, hours later, we occupied 5 out of 10 positions on Google Top 10!

 And here – a surpise I stumbled across… under the title “Festival of Generosity”: a fantastic position 2 of 12,200,000 search returns:

Semiomantics Festival 2011

Definitely time for a Semiomantics Festival 2011! Let’s celebrate!

What counts most for any CMS in terms of online marketing goes well beyond the look – it’s about search engine performance, visibility on Google, meaning that people find you when and where they are looking for you.

“West Coast Spring Flowers 2011″ shows on position 3 on Google Top 10 as you can see on the screenshot I took just now and that you can click on to enlarge… it means that this article is basically shown ahead of more or less 2,640,000 search returns on an apparently very active keyword combination.

Google and Online Marketing strategies following the latest e-commerce technology, trends and tools will be the main focus of the E-Tourism Africa Summit 2011 in Cape Town that I will be attending on 15 and 16 September 2011 in Cape Town’s CTICC.

Google’s official South African representatives will be explaining online solutions for Tourism in South Africa… or call it Destination South Africa … which is just along our line of interest and expect me to be back with more information shortly !

We monitor the performance of the websites and blogs created on our WP based Semiomantics Scripts very closely to ensure the customer – in this case Magnetic Transport Surplus in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines – has properly understood and applies the correct basic principles in terms of Online Editing and Online Publishing and – based on his efforts – gets the corresponding exposure on search engines, i.e. Traffic to his targeted keywords and topics of interest. Traffic translates into inquiries, direct communication between seller and potential buyer – and, eventually sales.The more Traffic, the more Conversion – that’s simple mathematics.

So how are the Importance of Daily Postings and Google connected?

Simple: search engine spyders need fresh, daily content – it’s what fuels them, what gets them excited, what makes them tick so to speak! They crawl all the time across the web looking for that: fresh content! Hungry monsters they are… but they reward us by positioning our posts where we target… at least with the right script and optimization! While they cannot evaluate the quality of the content, they look for certain ‘hooks’ and, once satisfied, send us some ‘flowers’ and move on on their unstoppable virtual journey.

I checked the latest submissions by Magnetic Transport Surplus to see their positioning on Google Top 10, here’s the example “Isuzu CXZ71U 10PD1 Dump Truck” – you can click on the images to enlarge them for better vision:

While it’s a small search term, there still seems to be a lot of interest as we can deduct from the Google Ads – and Magnetic Transport occupies spot 1 on Google Top 10 and… as you can see… even the next positions.

A customer looking up exactly this keyword on Google will have the choice between the 10 websites on the left and the ads (3 above and a couple to the right).

As Magnetic Transport occupies a number of positions on the left side, chances are big they capture the customer’s interest. Any person looking at their website costs Magnetic Transport nothing, not a cent.

If however the person checks out the various ads (on top and to the right, i.e. AdSense), each click will cost the owner of the ad – with no guarantees. If say 100 people click on Magnetic Transport, chances are big this leads to some form of exchange… especially as Magnetic Transport occupies, in this case, 4 out of the 10 top positions.

If these 100 people click on the various ads instead, firstly the clicks will be diluted between the various advertisers – and secondly each click costs the corresponding advertiser. Calculate the value of a click – is it $1? Is it $11? Depending on the daily budget of the advertiser, he can take a certain number of clicks until he disappears from the radar – depending on his daily advertising budget. Is it $100? Is it $1000?

Not so for Magnetic Transport who have invested in an excellent CMS setup on Semiomantics and learned some basic Online Publishing skills. Here, each click will count for them in terms of Traffic. What they are interested in is to offer customers what they are looking for at the right place: on Google Top 10 – meaning: what do they punch in as a search term? Isuzu Mixer truck? Isuzu 10PD1? The differences can be huge depending on the actual terminology you choose – just study the two images as an example… and it’s the same product:

The solution is not in the “either or” – it’s in spreading through study, research, effort and – most importantly – a razor-sharp goal in mind. Magnetic Transport is not limited by any financial budget of doing that and positioning themselves exactly and wherever it’s relevant for them to be found.

Semiomantics Web Design reaches the customer only once properly indexed on Google; it’s then up to the customer to expand his positions and build his authority… and this largely depends on regular daily postings!

Having developed our own Semiomantics Product and built – over a number of years – the Semiomantics XO Publishing Framework with its strong emphasis on SEO and high visibility on Google Top 10, it’s time to get back to Online Marketing, especially WordPress Marketing, based on our WP based and powered themes.

To this day, Email Marketing is highly efficient, but it needs the right knowhow and skills to be used in the correct form, from individual emailing to landing pages with double optins to Autoresponders, Newsletters etc … and for all of this the right tools and the right etiquette to avoid spam complaints and IP blacklisting.

Affiliate Marketing is and has always been successful and is, in my view, “… the marketing way of the net”: help me market my product and get a commission on each sale. As simple as that. However, there are important issue to be considered to ensure a safe link tracking especially when it comes to automated link promotion. As many members on the Ycademy network promote Affiliate Links – be it from Amazon or Autopart dealers – this needs to be addressed in the right way. Last but not least, we all have our own shop and products to sell – so yet another important and interesting issue to address and integrate in a smart and efficient way.

As usual, the weekend Seminar risks not having sufficient hours in the day :)

Within the context of WordPress Marketing we have always monitored the performance of our articles on search engines, especially Google, and here only Google Top 10 counts – as who has time to look any further?

As such, my screenshots serve to proove the performance of our WordPress based Semiomantics CMS and, as we see below from yesterday’s article results, it’s quite clear why WordPress Semiomantics is the best theme:

WordPress Marketing on a WP based Semiomantics CMS is the most cost-efficient way of bringing your product or service to a maximum number of peoples’ attention in terms of Website Publishing – fast and reliable. We show it every day – and so do our customers on their brand-new CMS. It’s really the smart and economic way to go!

This was what Delia O’Riordan – known as Psychic Delia – asked herself when deciding to take her Psychic Consultancy Online. Getting into “blogging” and Website Publishing on a Mac had its tricky and frustrating moments, however, looking back on her very first month online Delia knows why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best theme… and that she could not have made a better and more cost-effective choice, besides saving tons of money on Google Ads!

Today, Delia O’Riordan has her own proof as to why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best Theme… seeing her own articles and posts reaching Google Top 10 positions and bringing her the Traffic she needs to build her online business and get new readers, subscribers and potential customers.

Having designed Delia’s CMS, I keep monitoring her performance on Google… not always, but just to make sure she keeps on track and everything moves forward according to concept, execution and plan. So I looked at her 3 recent posts and checked their performance on Google… and WOW! look for yourself and see the results! Amazing… and this after just a mere month!

We often hear that it’s so ‘normal’ for us who have been around since a while to get high positions on search engines… but that a beginner would barely come near that. Yes and no… it depends – and as you see, Delia O’Riordan made the right decision in terms of choosing a WordPress based Semiomantics Script with expert Custom Web Design… then she received the right guidance and instructions… a lot of help and support… and now she’s spreading her wings and flying high on the Internet highway – Congratulations Delia!

This was what Delia O’Riordan – known as Psychic Delia – asked herself when deciding to take her Psychic Consultancy Online. Getting into “blogging” and Website Publishing on a Mac had its tricky and frustrating moments, however, looking back on her very first month online Delia knows why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best theme… and that she could not have made a better and more cost-effective choice, besides saving tons of money on Google Ads!

Today, Delia O’Riordan has her own proof as to why WordPress Semiomantics is the Best Theme… seeing her own articles and posts reaching Google Top 10 positions and bringing her the Traffic she needs to build her online business and get new readers, subscribers and potential customers.

Having designed Delia’s CMS, I keep monitoring her performance on Google… not always, but just to make sure she keeps on track and everything moves forward according to concept, execution and plan. So I looked at her 3 recent posts and checked their performance on Google… and WOW! look for yourself and see the results! Amazing… and this after just a mere month!

We often hear that it’s so ‘normal’ for us who have been around since a while to get high positions on search engines… but that a beginner would barely come near that. Yes and no… it depends – and as you see, Delia O’Riordan made the right decision in terms of choosing a WordPress based Semiomantics Script with expert Custom Web Design… then she received the right guidance and instructions… a lot of help and support… and now she’s spreading her wings and flying high on the Internet highway – Congratulations Delia!