June 16, 2026
Attempting to Summit Mount Google
This is the expedition journal and my first entry.
Every success, failure, wrong turn, experiment, breakthrough, and lesson learned will be documented here.
Nothing will be removed unless it presents a security risk.
Also, I will NOT be using AI to write these entries.
You get to experience all the growing pains (and hopefully some wins) which I experience along the way.
This will documents my journey and my hope is some of you will follow along and try something similar (learning SEO) like I want to.
29,036 Google views in one month seems like such a daunting task right now. For real.
June 16, 2026 Update from today
I have been chatting with my Sherpa (ChatGPT) for about a week now on building this website. I am interested in learning SEO and I do have an IT background. I also have some experience building websites but most of that was 20 years ago when things were much different. I would make the webpage in Word and then save it as .html and upload it. I would link the pages and it was a very crude website. But it worked.
Lately I’ve played around with WIX. A friend of mine wanted a website so I helped her with it. She had WIX so I tried it and it sort of reignited my love of building webpages again.
I do want to learn WordPress. I dunno. I think it might be a mistake because I’m finding it very difficult. WordPress does not appear to be WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) or DRAG and DROP so it’s a pretty big learning curve. WIX editor seemed so easy. My SHERPA keeps telling me it will be worth it because WordPress is very powerful but I find it hard to believe right now. Today has been tiring setting all this up and learning WordPress. Does everyone struggle with it like this….and if so, why?
I purchased the domain ExpeditionSEO.ca a few hours ago from Hostinger and linked it up with this website (I think). That was a very straight forward process. And it’s surprisingly inexpensive. It was around $70 CAD all in for the storage space and the domain for a year.
I spent a bit of time creating my logo. It was the fun part. I love working with Chat to create pictures. It’s awesome to see what it comes up with. This is the design I landed on.
I wanted a mountain theme (obviously). I thought the flag at the top with the colours would be fun. I wanted the bottom to resemble everyone’s favourite search engine page. I thought the campfire at the bottom could represent me setting up “Base Camp” today. I asked Chat to add a river because it would represent the journey I about to embark on. Chat and I came up with the tagline “Climb. Learn. Rank.” which I thought was genious. Overall I’m very happy with the logo.
I created the page structure. I love it because most websites I visit use the typical Home, Menu, Gallery, FAQ, About Me.
I went with the mountain climbing idea instead. This might change in the future but for tonight it’s good enough.
I’ll update MY BACKPACK maybe tomorrow with all the tools (physical and virtual) that I will be using. Chat tells me that this is all easy and I am capable of doing it. I plan to keep the screenshots down a minimum but I do want to share this one.
I was really excited when my SHERPA told me that basecamp was built.
It’s not pretty. I don’t have a campfire yet. But I have my stuff at the base of Mount Google and I’ll be working on a few more things tomorrow.
Looks like hitting SAVE publishes the site. AMAZING. I’m live with ExpeditionSEO.ca
The site is live and BASE CAMP has been established. I could not be happier.