The day has finally arrived that version 3.0 of Downtown Des Moines Blog can be revealed. This time around the changes weren’t minor, and there wasn’t just a few changes made. We’ve completed overhauled the site and created what we feel is a better site in every way.
The site now is in more [...]
October was a breakout month here at Downtown Des Moines Blog.
10,958 hits
3,434 unique visits
Up from 5,400 hits in September!
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Over 70% of our traffic now comes from Google and Yahoo. Our search engine rankings have us “on the throne” as they say.
Our most popular content this month was Dos [...]
Sidebar notice.
This month we’ve seen quite a large jump in our traffic. In fact, we’re over 5,000 hits already, which is great because September saw a total of 5,400 hits. I have to remind you that the only reason people come to this site is for information about downtown Des Moines. That’s [...]
I’ve already covered several of the changes that have been made to this site, but I have left this one for today. These are the changes that have been made to each individual post.
If you really feel that some of the posts here are better than others–you can now share that opinion. If [...]
We’ve already updated you on improvements made to our comments section. I want to tell you about our feed with this update.
If you’ve seen the little FEED ME button on the top right-hand side of the right toolbar you might have wondered what that is. To make something sort of complicated easy, it’s a way [...]
Wow! The weekend brought about some interesting bugs that had to be worked out. If you view this site with Firefox you have no idea what I’m referring to. If you (unwisely) choose to utilize the Internet Explorer pile of crap that Microsoft puts out–then you may have noticed something wrong with this site over [...]
I was doing a little research yesterday and entered “downtown Des Moines” into the search engine. This site comes up #5 out of nearly 3,700,000 search results. We’re before everything you can look for downtown outside of downtowndesmoines.com, the downtown Marriott and the city of Des Moines.
Basically we own.
People looking to live downtown, come to [...]
In addition to all the changes we’ve made here this week, we’ve added a Professional Services page. What does that mean?
You can add your service ad to this page. If you offer a service and you want people downtown to know about it–you can now list your services on the page!
We have a few listings [...]
Were you surprised when you came to the site today? We’ve made some major changes to the site and hope you like them!
This site started as a hobby, as a side project so to speak–but due to the huge growth that we’ve seen we were forced to make upgrades. We needed a platform that more [...]
