Posts Tagged ‘Web Sites’

Visitors, SEO & Marketing

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I’m happy to see that Google is starting to give page ranks back. While I’m not back to my PR6, the PR3 is just as good for the time being. I do hope to get my original rank back but that’s something I’ll have to take up with them in the future. I know what I’m going to have to do in order to make that possible so I’m not too concerned with it.

In the meantime, I’ve been going through quite a few resources to help me with my SEO techniques. I’d like to properly market my portfolio. Word of mouth is always great advertising, no matter who you are, but it’s also nice to have a constant flow of unique users coming to your site thanks to major search engines and directories. I’m considering getting in touch with webmetro.com, they’re a search engine optimization company that I’ve just come across recently. I figure I’ll request a quote and see what happens from there. I’m not looking to have a PR6 on my portfolio but it would be nice to exceed the few hundred hits a day that I’m currently getting on that site. It would be nice to get up around the 1500-2000 hits a day. Those are the numbers I’m used to as far as my personal sites are concerned. I’ll admit that I’ve slacked off on maintaining them but I hope that when business slows down a bit I’ll be able to come back with good articles to get back to what I had.

I poked through WebMetro and from the introduction I saw that they combine a few different techniques to get the job done. They’ve done pretty well for themselves as well. I find it easier to trust a SEO company when they’ve got decent rankings. I’ve dealt with a few in the past that had no page rank and were in the millions as far as rankings on Alexa are concerned. If no one’s visiting you – what makes you think that they’ll visit me? I guess it depends on how you look at it though.

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Stylish Web Design

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I do a lot of surfing around the Internet, probably more than I really should considering I have a mountain of work to do. Today I came across a site that’s pretty similar to my own. It’s a design blog that houses numerous articles for just about everything connected to the Internet. I spent a lot of time reading through all of the articles and a few of them really stood out for me, mainly the one I read about customizing user accounts on Windows Vista and the favorite article of mine was on the topic of how important joining a spyware community can be in order to keep on top of all of the spyware upgrades available for your computers.

While many people tend to overlook it, I have to say that from a designers point of view the template used on this site was pretty spectacular as well.  It showed off the proper way to use web 2.0 styling on your website and it wasn’t bombarded with useless ads either.  Now I know I have them on my site, so who am I to talk? But I also run a business, this person goes out of their way to blog about topics that are helpful to the everyday technology seeker that floats around the Internet for informational sites like this.  I think if you haven’t already been to stylishwebdesign.us then you should poke around and add it to your bookmarks.  It’s a great resource for just about everyone, no matter what your level of computer knowledge may be.

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MaxWebDesign.eu

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

As I noted in a previous entry today, I’ve been floating around a lot of different websites in search for new and interesting ideas. I would also like to add a few more websites to my RSS reader (courtesy of Google of course) so finding any sites that will spark my interest are more than likely going to make it into my bookmarks. Today I found maxwebdesign.edu, it’s a blog for web design and being as I’ve done the same thing here on my own site. While there isn’t any major “Web Design” going on with this particular site, there are a lot of resources here for everything from improving your Google rankings to SEO. Based on it’s description, it’s a magazine styled web design related blog where the owner – Robert G – writes as much as he can about his projects, websites, marketing and SEO tips. I enjoyed going through all of the articles, I really like the way Robert has set the “featured article” on the header of the page. The current feature is “Using link popularity to boost your position” and after reading through it I have to say that anyone who’s new to any aspect of SEO would find this site to be a really good resource.

It’s worth checking out, trust me. Head on over to maxwebdesign.eu if you don’t believe me.

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89 PC Tips – Web

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Over the course of the next couple of days, I’m going to post quite a few articles in relation to the 89 best PC tips. This will include everything from Audio, iTunes, Email, Productivity, Mac OS X Tips & Tricks, Security, Travel, Video, the Web and even Media in general! This is a very well thought out and well written list originally from Laptop Mag. I enjoyed reading this article so much that I decided it was worth re-publishing. All of the original copyrights are in place, the next series of articles, titled 89 best PC tips, are completely credited to LaptopMag!

The following series of tips is in complete dedication to the Web.

#1 – Get More Out of Google
Google does a lot more than search: Type “two dollars in yen” and find out how much a Japanese tourist pays to ride the New York City subways. Picking up someone from the airport? Type the name of an airline and the flight number to see if it’s on time. The same can be done for packages: Enter a FedEX, UPS or USPS tracking number into the search box to see where in the world it is.

#2 – Use Shortcuts
A well-placed keystroke or mouse click will help stave off carpal tunnel syndrome for another day. To find text as you type while surfing, press the “/” key. Want to open a new tab? Simply double-click on the tab box. Text too small to read? In either Firefox or Internet Explorer, click View > Text Size.

#3 – Clear your History
In the hands of a micromanaging boss, your Web browser’s history could mean trouble. Holding Control-Shift-Delete will clear private data quickly, but to clear history as well, go to Tools menu in Firefox, select Options > Privacy > Clear Now. In IE, select “Delete Browsing History” in the Tools menu. Truly paranoid surfers can opt for Firefox to clear all private data every time they end a session.

#4 – Give Widgets a Try
Sure, you could go for Google’s or Vista’s Gadgets, but Yahoo Widgets 4.5 (free – widgets.yahoo.com) is more aesthetically appealing, and offers a greater variety of fun desktop tchotchkes. The standard weather, sports scores, and news widgets are all there, plus unique widgets like the Drum Pad, which lets you create musical beats from your desktop. The Office Videos widget lets you watch clips from the hit show without having to launch a browser. Other favorites include the iTunes bar for controlling playback (complete with album art) and JC Sticky Delux (digital post-it notes).

#5 – Put the Surf in Surfing
Instead of visiting the same sites everyday, use StumpleUpon’s add-on (free – www.stumpleupon.com) for your browser to find new sites daily. Input your interests – music, religion, news, games, and more – and the service will feed you all the sites it thinks you would enjoy. Once you’ve discovered a bunch of hidden gems, you can create your own StumbleUpon profile with your favorite sites for others to see.

#6 – Get Smarter RSS Feeds
Google’s recent revamp of its Reader (free – www.google.com/reader) makes it even more powerful by adding a recommendation tool that suggests feeds based on your reading habits, and a tool that lets you share favorite posts with colleagues through Google Talk. Too many feeds? The new drag-and-drop filing system comes in handy.

#7 – Make the most of LinkedIN
Increase your connections exponentially on LinkedIn (free – www.linkedin.com) by importing contacts from Outlook, Facebook, and other databases. Inputting your full job history will make your profile appear in more searches, as will changing the URL of your public profile to include your full name.

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The World Is Yours Now

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I spend a lot of time floating around the Internet. The bulk of my time is reading into new Business and Technology techniques and products, but my downtime consists of weblogs written by bloggers from all over the world. Today I spent a few hours floating around on Blogspot. I have to say that I enjoy going through their “Next Blog” option. It gives you the ability to go through a big database of bloggers without having to open a new tab to have a links page to refer to, it makes life a bit simpler when you have way too many windows open!

I just finished reading a new blog (well, new for me) called The World is Yours Now. It’s noted as a blog that houses Financial information for the regular person, giving you advice on business opportunities and how to go about them so that they benefit you. I had to go through quite a few site reviews in order to find any Financial informatioin but that’s OK because I really do enjoy reading what other people have to say about Websites around the Internet, so of course having a whole database of them to fish through was great for me. There were a lot of articles that didn’t really fit on this websites theme, but my blog also bounces around so that’s not a big deal either.

This bloggers reviews are very short and to the point. I know that websites aren’t easy to comment on but as someone who used to run a fairly popular Review site, I know a thing or two about how to get around that.

As far as strong content is concerned, there were really only one or two articles that stood out for me. The one I liked the most was in regards freelance writing, it was conveniently titled Tools for the freelance writer on the net where you’re given information how to go about properly creating your niche or being a general topic creator. There are thousands of companies on the Internet looking for content writers and getting involved in Freelance Writing can really bring in some good money. I’ve dabbled in it a big myself but I unfortunately lost touch with my contacts.

My only gripe with this particlar site is I was unable to find the bloggers name, but I’ll just consider them a Ghost Writer heh.

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Keeping Busy

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I’m the kind of person who likes to keep myself busy. Unfortunately, for the past few days I’ve been busy trying to figure out how to stretch some bills around so I can take the little money I have and invest it in a new place to house my websites. I’m not talking about the server aspect of things, I’m talking more along the lines of my reseller account. I house all of my personal and business related sites on a different server. This way if something goes down it’s easy for clients to still get in touch with me. It was a move I made about 2 years ago and it’s worked out pretty well for me since then. Unluckily for me – I’m housing the sites with an absolutely horrible company but at the time it was all I could really afford. I initially purchased these plans about 5 years ago, before the “In Thing” to do was give customers a vast amount of server resources for practically no money. I don’t think it’s great to charge $10 a month for the resources one would get on a dedicated server, but since I don’t run things that way – it’s the reason I’m hurting. I don’t think anyone is ever going to use 10GB of disk space and 2TB of bandwidth every month, if their sites are that large they’ve got to be doing SOMETHING illegal. Whether it be photo hosting of copyrighted celebrity images, or just eating bandwidth by direct linking everywhere, something just isn’t right – in my eyes at least.

Either way this hasn’t stopped me from trying to move things around. While I’m looking into the best web hosting that I can find, I’m still making it a point to house my sites with a company that I know will be around for a while and has the proper systems in place for any and all downtime possibilities that my arise in the future.

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