Archive for the ‘Information Technology’ Category
SEO not a mystery
It’s very simple really. Get tons of quality websites to list your URL then the traffic will flow because everyone can now find you.
Well let’s face it, not everyone wants to pay hundreds of $$$ or £££ to a slick professional SEO company who has steadily built links and done deals with other big companies so as soon as they place your URL in their SEO link building robot, hey presto, your Google rank shoots up.
Apparently there are other ways to address the “Getting Ranked” issue but, they take time and dedication. You are simply going to have to trawl the internet for websites that offer to scan your site for free and will then list you. There are quite a few of these but, they take a while to find and then register with. A trick I used was to follow a key site I know of, that belongs to someone who works for a venture capital company. They specialise in SEO and business marketing. I then attempted to register with these sites and after two or three days, my Alexa ranking drastically improved. However, it is now steadily slipping again which clearly indicates that you have to keep on top of it all by constantly finding new sites to get listed with. The big SEO companies will always have the advantage because they have automated systems that crawl the internet for places to list and new methods to keep people watching. You can do similar things but you have to know what works and that is going to take time and dedication. Trial and error is your only way through.
If you listen to the marketing gurus, they will tell you to make a video that advertizes your site and services but, not everyone is good at this sort of thing. It’s worth a shot though, it doesn’t cost anything but your time to post a video to YouTube. Well I’ve got to go now but I’ll be adding to this post so keep watching.
Giving value
Giving value to your blog or website is like giving value to anything. People just want something useful in life. I am aiming to give value from my IT knowledge and expertize.
This is the one thing I have learned from reading masses of SEO literature. If you think you can get anything out of a blog that just babbles on about anything and nothing then it will have no value to anyone. So now I’ve wasted months just waffling, it’s time to give value and share my IT know how gained from 20 years in the industry.
If you’re stumped about an IT issue then please drop a comment into either this post or into the “Ask me” page comment box.
Desktop, Server, Switches, Routers, Virtual systems, VoIP, MS Windows, Linux Distros. Even MAC-not my area really but, I’ll give it a shot.
Ask me
HTML, XHTML, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, T-SQL, VB, VBA
MySQL 4/5, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / 2005 / 2000, Microsoft Access 2007 / 2003 / 2000
Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office 2007 / 2003, Adobe Acrobat
Windows Server 2008 / 2003, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server 2005 / 2000, Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
Linux (CentOS / Ubuntu / OpenSUSE)
Postfix, Apache
Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Network and Server Architect
VoIP virtual PBX (3CX)
RAID array configuration – Hardware and software RAID 0, RAID1, RAID5
VMWare virtual systems
Web site architect
Installations, Hardware Upgrades, Network Design, Implementation and Administration
and anything else you can think of.
If there is any area you would like to know about then just let me know.
Change of tack – IT Agony Uncle
Until today, I hadn’t decided what I should do with my own name site.
I’ve worked in IT all my life and until recently hadn’t really addressed what would benefit me and others from an IT perspective. So here it is, ask me anything IT based. I shall do my best to answer your questions.
I shall be your IT Agony Uncle, go for it and let me have all the details. Feel free to drop in your blog / website URL.
MS Windows or Linux, client or server issues. Sorry MAC users…hey why not, perhaps my Linux background will offer something useful to you.