So, after a day or two the site is "live" and the domain name has been linked. Now what? Start talking and let everyone know where the site is. There are timelines everywhere in this game and a word that is repeated many times in the guides is "patience". Apparently it takes 3 or 4 days before all the Domain Servers will have registered "www.roymacintyreimages.co.uk" so that it will be found worldwide just by typing the address. The longer game is potentially the more important one; Google, page ranking and SE optimisation - apparently a science in its own right! It could be up to 2 months before the Google system will start to index and rank the site. Up until then it will just be direct searches or Facebook/Twitter links. To that end, there is a FB page up and running that I intend to use to highlight additions to the site (e.g. this new Blog entry). I've had many kind remarks in the first day or 2 and a lot of help from others spreading the word on my behalf. I'm grateful for this and any advice, because this is all a new game to me.
I'll keep you posted how things go and I hope you find it entertaining or even inspiring enough to give it a try in your field of interest.

04/08/2012