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Hmm. I personally have needed to use Google Code Search several times since it shut down, but have never found your site. When I've looked for alternatives by s

by lambda 14y ago

Hmm. I personally have needed to use Google Code Search several times since it shut down, but have never found your site. When I've looked for alternatives by searching Google (say, for "code search"), I've found Koders (now Ohloh code search), but not yours. It seems like you might need to do a bit more SEO.

boyter 14y ago
Yes I certainly do. I have been working on it, but Koders and Ohloh are pretty established so its a long climb. I think the .de domain might be hurting a little bit too. Happy to listen to any actionable items that can address this though.
- EwanToo 14y ago
  Not a huge thing, but your HTML isn't valid - for example, there's Google analytics stuff after the closing </html> tag. That kind of thing is never going to help http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchco.de%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchco.de%2...
  - nl 14y ago
    That doesn't make any difference at all to SEO (and in some cases can improve performance - or at least having it after the body tag does).
  - boyter 14y ago
    I didn't know that had any bearing on it but thinking about it seems like it would be a ranking factor. I'll fix that up soon and see if anything changes. Cheers.
- patrickk 14y ago
  Check out the periodic table of SEO: http://searchengineland.com/seotable http://searchengineland.com/seotable Kalzmeus on SEO (click around his blog for more, guy's a genius): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ Also some quick, simple advice: 1. Blog 2/3 times per week minimum. Target a single, relevant keyword per blog post (relevant to your domain). The post title, H1s, H2s etc, image tags should all contain your primary keyword. Blog posts don't have to be long, but they do have to be useful. 2. Build a G+, FB, Twitter account for your site if you haven't already. Blast out your new posts to these accounts using Hootsuite (free, but you can pay if you like). 3. Build an audience on the social networks - just search around, follow relevant people and share useful, educational material. Don't spam. 4. Personalised mass email from Google Docs and Gmail (kind of hesitant to recommend this in light of Google shuttering services!): http://www.labnol.org/internet/personalized-mail-merge-in-gmail/20981/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/personalized-mail-merge-in-gm... you need to have "newsletter" signs ups (blast out a digest of your blog posts once per month), calls to actions etc on your site for this to work properly (i.e. optimise your site to capture names & emails). Great, low cost/free way to make sure your audience stays engaged and coming back to your site. You can pay for this kind of service too, e.g. Mailchimp (they've a free tier), Constant Contact, or the likes of Hubspot for full suite of marketing automation tools. 5. Best of Startup marketing/SEO here, that I've compiled over the years (absolute gold): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_fyIIMSJ6DdGtkckxQUy1XMzRaSXh4S3kzdEFrQ1E#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_fyIIMSJ6DdGt... 6. Check out Sell More Software by patio11: http://www.hyperink.com/Sell-More-Software-Website-Conversion-Optimization-For-Software-Developers-b9B393B465B http://www.hyperink.com/Sell-More-Software-Website-Conversio... Many engineers don't fully appreciate marketing as patio11 would be quick to point out, but there's a start.
  - at-fates-hands 14y ago
    Being successful at SEO is almost the same as starting your own company. Any one of these is a full-time proposition. I would seek out professional SEO company's and try to find the best deal. No way anybody could do all this stuff by themselves. In the end, it will be a worthwhile investment. From my own experience it's very time consuming to get it right.
    - patrickk 14y ago
      Agreed. I do most of the above as an employee in a startup company, and we use Hubspot to have most of our marketing efforts "under one roof". However if you're a bootstrapped company, you may not have a choice but to put the time in yourself rather than paying for professional SEO services. If you have a technical and non-technical co-founders, this list is a large chunk of what the non-technical guy should/will be doing. Building a great product that people want is pointless without letting people know about it.
  - sroerick 14y ago
    This is excellent, thanks so much!
  - 1ManBandAccts 14y ago
    @patrickk I've been looking for a basics post about SEo without tech speak for ahem years. That doc is brilliant. Thank you! I might be able to start implementing now instead of having SEO on my to-do list yet again.
    - patrickk 14y ago
      Glad you found it helpful!
charleslmunger 14y ago
Grepcode also turns up frequently in results.

by lambda 14y ago

boyter 14y ago

Yes I certainly do. I have been working on it, but Koders and Ohloh are pretty established so its a long climb. I think the .de domain might be hurting a little bit too. Happy to listen to any actionable items that can address this though.

EwanToo 14y ago
Not a huge thing, but your HTML isn't valid - for example, there's Google analytics stuff after the closing </html> tag. That kind of thing is never going to help http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchco.de%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchco.de%2...
- nl 14y ago
  That doesn't make any difference at all to SEO (and in some cases can improve performance - or at least having it after the body tag does).
- boyter 14y ago
  I didn't know that had any bearing on it but thinking about it seems like it would be a ranking factor. I'll fix that up soon and see if anything changes. Cheers.
patrickk 14y ago
Check out the periodic table of SEO: http://searchengineland.com/seotable http://searchengineland.com/seotable Kalzmeus on SEO (click around his blog for more, guy's a genius): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ Also some quick, simple advice: 1. Blog 2/3 times per week minimum. Target a single, relevant keyword per blog post (relevant to your domain). The post title, H1s, H2s etc, image tags should all contain your primary keyword. Blog posts don't have to be long, but they do have to be useful. 2. Build a G+, FB, Twitter account for your site if you haven't already. Blast out your new posts to these accounts using Hootsuite (free, but you can pay if you like). 3. Build an audience on the social networks - just search around, follow relevant people and share useful, educational material. Don't spam. 4. Personalised mass email from Google Docs and Gmail (kind of hesitant to recommend this in light of Google shuttering services!): http://www.labnol.org/internet/personalized-mail-merge-in-gmail/20981/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/personalized-mail-merge-in-gm... you need to have "newsletter" signs ups (blast out a digest of your blog posts once per month), calls to actions etc on your site for this to work properly (i.e. optimise your site to capture names & emails). Great, low cost/free way to make sure your audience stays engaged and coming back to your site. You can pay for this kind of service too, e.g. Mailchimp (they've a free tier), Constant Contact, or the likes of Hubspot for full suite of marketing automation tools. 5. Best of Startup marketing/SEO here, that I've compiled over the years (absolute gold): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_fyIIMSJ6DdGtkckxQUy1XMzRaSXh4S3kzdEFrQ1E#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_fyIIMSJ6DdGt... 6. Check out Sell More Software by patio11: http://www.hyperink.com/Sell-More-Software-Website-Conversion-Optimization-For-Software-Developers-b9B393B465B http://www.hyperink.com/Sell-More-Software-Website-Conversio... Many engineers don't fully appreciate marketing as patio11 would be quick to point out, but there's a start.
- at-fates-hands 14y ago
  Being successful at SEO is almost the same as starting your own company. Any one of these is a full-time proposition. I would seek out professional SEO company's and try to find the best deal. No way anybody could do all this stuff by themselves. In the end, it will be a worthwhile investment. From my own experience it's very time consuming to get it right.
  - patrickk 14y ago
    Agreed. I do most of the above as an employee in a startup company, and we use Hubspot to have most of our marketing efforts "under one roof". However if you're a bootstrapped company, you may not have a choice but to put the time in yourself rather than paying for professional SEO services. If you have a technical and non-technical co-founders, this list is a large chunk of what the non-technical guy should/will be doing. Building a great product that people want is pointless without letting people know about it.
- sroerick 14y ago
  This is excellent, thanks so much!
- 1ManBandAccts 14y ago
  @patrickk I've been looking for a basics post about SEo without tech speak for ahem years. That doc is brilliant. Thank you! I might be able to start implementing now instead of having SEO on my to-do list yet again.
  - patrickk 14y ago
    Glad you found it helpful!

charleslmunger 14y ago

Grepcode also turns up frequently in results.