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Busy busy busy

Unfortunately I have been too busy to keep posts coming on this little blog of mine. There just are not enough hours in the day! Rumors were that Google was going to be sending out another major Panda update by the end of November. If it did do that, I can’t see where it made any difference in my Page Ranks, so I guess I should just breathe a big sigh of relief over that.

One of the blog broker companies that I have been working with for about four years has suddenly gone quiet. I’m not sure if I’ve angered them so that they will never give me any work again, but I have been out “beating the bushes” looking for other sources of income. Doing my local networking thing has mixed results, my relatives think I am wasting my time networking with the local people, but I’d like to think that somewhere down the line I will meet someone who will find my skills to be exactly what he/she is looking for to help them grow their business and we will create a wonderful synergy that will astonish all of the critics that don’t understand the value of having a correctly coded well designed website and to actively market it. Having a website just sitting on a server, without ever updating it, without marketing it is a sad waste of resources. And yet that is what so many of the local companies are doing.

I’ve always loved horses but I do wonder if I will ever get these horses that I’m leading to water to drink, or if they will all just perish because they don’t believe that the water I am leading them to will quench their thirst. I guess time will tell.

The future of SEO – to be, or not to be?

Hamlet (free clip art)

Hamlet (free clip art)

Over the past several weeks I have been reading on a lot of self-proclaimed SEO and SERP people’s websites and I get the distinct impression that the future of SEO and SERP is going to be largely dependent on social interaction between the website and its readers. I have also gotten the distinct impression that the “blogroll” links that many blogs have will not be given any weight in the foreseeable future Google indexing algorithms.

So, what does that mean to me? First of all, I think that it means that a website should have an associated Facebook page. This is going to become more important down the road. Also Google Places, Google +1, and any other Google social thing has going on. After all, I think it only makes sense that Google is going to be favoring their products over any other. I think that it means that I might as well remove my blogroll widgets. All they are doing is taking up space on the blog. If a blog is a mature blog, that blogroll takes up valuable “real estate” (space) that would be better put to good use by putting in a tag cloud or a Facebook widget that displays an associated Facebook page or other Social Media product in use.

Additionally, it suggests to me that it would probably be a very good thing for businesses to incorporate a blog into their website. The blog would be a good place to dole out tips and perhaps run opinion polls. I think that in the spirit of showing “social interaction” that it would be appropriate for the blog to have comments enabled. When Google does its future indexing, if their robotic spiders find comments on the website I suspect that would make the Google spiders very happy. And I don’t know about you, but I want happy spiders, don’t you?

happy spider (free clip art)

happy spider (free clip art)

This has been fun

Nothing like a little bit of knowledge to make someone realize how much there is that they don’t know! This is the last week of the Facebook/Twitter “Blast” that I signed up for. I still don’t think I have any idea of what I am doing here, but that is OK I guess. I AM getting the opportunity to read lots of people’s pages and tweets and finding a lot of people with similar interests, and others with fresh perspectives, so I think that is a good thing.

Participants in this “Blast” are entered in a drawing to win a gift card. I don’t even care if I win or not, just “meeting” all of the other folks has been enough reward for me!

Amazon Blast

Amazon Blast

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Makobi Scribe and Sason & Pobi  are bringing you this Amazon Facebook blast. The winner will receive an Amazon gift card for $100. The giveaway is open WW.

And now we go back to twitter

It wasn’t until after I signed up for the four weeks of the Facebook and Twitter blast that I realized that if the event was going to be alternating between the two that the smart thing to do would be for me to set up two different twitter accounts and then two different Facebook accounts. Oh well…. next time!

I have set up a second Facebook page – hopefully I can arrange for the final week to be having the last week of the Facebook Blast to be sending some love to that page.

I’m a bit confused, concerned that I might be doing something wrong because there are a lot more likes and follows than I expected to get. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really GLAD of that, but I keep wondering if I am supposed to be doing something more than what I have been doing! Well, whatever happens I hope that no one gets angry with me and says “you were supposed to be doing XXXXXX and you didn’t and now we all hate you!”

I DO know I am supposed to be putting some graphics on this blog post, to be letting any readers be able to participate in the Blast. So, here they are!

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Amazon Blast

Amazon Blast

Makobi Scribe and Sason & Pobi  are bringing you this Amazon Twitter blast. The winner will receive an Amazon gift card for $100. The giveaway is open WW.

In the interest of trying to use some of the things that I’ve been hearing about – in the topic of SEO and SERP and all of that stuff, I loaded a plug-in to my blog called Publish to Facebook. I am having trouble activating it. I have provided all of the requested information but I keep getting an error message. All of the tutorials I’ve looked through are outdated and are not offering me the help I need. This is frustrating. If any of you folks out there reading this know of a way to get the plug-in to work, or if you know that the plug-in is non-functional, I’d appreciate it if you would drop me a note and let me know what you know about it!

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