My Plans for 2007
I’ve just commented over at Freelance Writers Manifesto on what we can do, as freelance writers, to improve our situation in the coming year. I hope it inspires lots of writers everywhere.
My plans have been more-or-less finalized for some time though. I’ve been writing a course on SEO for a few months. It will include all my know-how of the SEO and online marketing world. I’m also planning to do a couple of ebooks for sale. They’re all in the pipes, and I’ll unveil them when the right time comes. And of course I’ll still be hard at work providing optimized content and marketing advice for clients all over the world.
Because I’m probably going away for the holidays, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish my readers and clients a wonderful holiday, and the best New Year ever! God Bless you all!
Yahoo and Keywords: Is SEO Dead?
I annoys the heck out of me when I keep seeing idiot know-it-alls announcing to the world that SEO is dead and you don’t need to write for the search engines.
All the time I prove it to myself. I just re-did the home page of my main business website: WellWrittenWords. I was #6 on Yahoo before: now I’ve dropped to who-know-where. It’s normal, and I’m not worried about it. I’ll just have to tweak my content by adding more of my chosen keywords. Google, by the way, is not so sensitive to keywords. The mix there is that backlinks are possibly even more important than your keywords. MSN is more like Yahoo, in that you have to be very careful about your Keyword enrichment.
You can try an experiment to see if what I’m saying is true. It’s easy. Simply remove a few of your keywords and see what happens to your Yahoo ranking. Don’t want to take that chance? Didn’t think so.
What makes me snigger up my sleeve is that the very people who are shouting from the rooftops that SEO is dead, are also the ones who have SEOd their websites to death. Just do a search for ‘SEO is dead’ and go see those websites, and you’ll see what I mean.
I despise hypocrisy, don’t you?
Color–Give me Color!
As you can see, I’ve changed my theme yet again. After a period where I favored lots of white space, my soul is in revolt! I seem to be craving color in every area of my life, and how could I leave out my websites. Everything’s getting a new look. My main website, WellWrittenWords has got a new index pages so far. More to come!
The new Freelance Writers Manifesto Blog is nice and colorful too.
Ah, now I feel better!
Spence is Still Locked Out of His Job!
I’m really sad to have to report this: Spencer Passmore still hasn’t been forgiven for a little mistake. I thought this was supposed to be the age of forgiveness? Seems that Fascist George Bush is having more of an influence over the United States than we realized! (OK so maybe here we might have Tony Blair to blame).
Laptop or PC?
I had an interesting conversation about Laptops vs PCs yesterday. Personally, I’ve been using a Toshiba Satellite, which is one of the new PC-equivalents, for nearly five years now. I would never go back to using a PC; I’m still having a love affair with my laptop. 
The conversation began when I was visiting my daughter, fumbling to fit the DSL cable into the back of my laptop. I rarely do that because I have Wi-Fi at home. I was trying to squeeze it into the wrong jack, and when I located the right one, I was wondering what the other one was for (slightly smaller). Someone suggested it was a slot for the keyboad. It wasn’t, but it made me think about all the people who can’t get along with a laptop keyboard. I suppose being a woman, I don’t have a problem with my hands being too big. I can imagine that some men might find things a bit cramped. I love the angle of typing on a laptop keyboard too. I never sit at a desk any more. I admit I get neck-ache if I’m forced to sit with the laptop balanced on my knees, but mainly I favor the recliner. But since I started using a laptop, i’ve never suffered repetitive strain injury pain, which I had experienced for years with the PC.
I try not to take the laptop to the bedroom with me, as even I have to call a halt to work sometime. But i really appreciate not being tied down to one spot in the house, as I was with my PC.
Bot Nets–Do We Need to Worry?
You may or may not have heard of Bot Nets. If you haven’t heard of them, you’ve almost certainly experienced spam from them. Over the past couple of months, Slash Dot reckons we’ve had around a 30 percent increase in spam as a result of Bot Net activity.
So first of all, what is a Bot Net?
Your Branding Community
The biggest mistake most businesses make when considering their brand, is thinking of themselves as an isolated entity. No one is an isolated entity, and as far as your brand is concerned, being isolated is not even slightly desirable.
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