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I thought it only fitting that I use my 500th blog post to say goodbye to Microsoft as they begin their slide into obscurity. As innovative as Microsoft has been, and as influential as they were bringing a computer to nearly every desk in the world, I’ve long thought their days were numbered. |
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I’m looking forward to next Tuesday nights meeting of the Oregon Computer Consultants Association. The subject is going to be using open source software on your desktop as a replacement for Windows, whether personal use, business use or both. I’m so fed up with computer problems that I’ve actually considered buying a Mac, but I have a hard time believing that it would help me in the long run, and it certainly wouldn’t be economical. |
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If you’ve ever imported large quantities of URLs into a spreadsheet, or even copy/pasted just a few rows, one of the things that you’ve probably disliked is the fact that those URLs are not “live”. In fact, in order to actually visit those URLs as needed, you have to copy/paste each one of them into the browser address bar, which takes extra time. |
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Apparently, my portion of last months internet marketing class went well enough that Colleen from Search Engine Academy of Oregon got good feedback, and she has asked me to speak again to her class in September. My portion will be about making the most of your efforts when marketing via the social networking sites, and I’ll be covering my own agenda too, as well as covering the materials they provide. |
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I will be speaking on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at the Software Association of Oregon’s monthly meeting, in a presentation entitled - The general topics covered by the speakers will be these, although you can bet that my own portion will focus exclusively on WordPress, and why it is NOT one of the many crappy content management systems out there today… |
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You may have a degree in English, but writing for the Web is a little bit different than writing for other forms of media. In the back of your mind you have to be a little bit more conscious about your audience is, and you have to grab their attention, as well as that of the search engines. |
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No Video Responses have been posted yet.Click here to post a video response. This website is for a nutritional supplement designed to help people with anxiety and stress relief products. This video is under five minutes and points out some fundamental problems, summarized here… The reality is that with only a 13 page website, and only 6 of them showing up much in Google at all, it’s going to be difficult to be considered an authority in your field. Here is the summary of what I point out in the video… |
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Late last night I added some notes to a MS notepad document on a laptop, and I neglected to save. This morning, Microsoft rebooted my computer (for my safety) and once again I lost some valuable notes. |
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Google Suggest has been around for quite awhile now, but at the moment I’m noticing it take effect on the regular Google homepage. Basically, you just begin type in something, and Google will pre-fill beneath your text, trying to guess what you’re looking for, showing you related searches, and showing you the number of results it will find. |
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After several months of being unable to coordinate the date and time, this past weekend I finally confirmed that I will be teaching a portion of an advanced Internet marketing class, to be held next week in Beaverton. |
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Last week as I was writing “Beyond the top 10 SEO Factors” I realized that it was either going to have to be a novel, or I was going to have to follow up quickly with a second post, which is what this is. |
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When I first wrote my article called a proper foundation for search results back in 2004, I admit that really had no idea that there were so many other factors involved in rankings. That article morphed into an entire SEO 101 section in 2006, but even that isn’t complete, because things are always changing, and there’s always more to learn. |
