Archive for the ‘General’ Category

I have been in the computer industry for as long as I can remember. Right out of the Navy I got a job as a mainframe computer technician (in June of 1977) and saw my first PC in the early 80’s. I remember playing with it for a couple of weeks and ended up declaring that it’d never catch on. Well, that’s not the only time I’ve been wrong… trust me.

By 1989 I not only was using PCs every day of my life, I sold a few also. They made much more sense once Windows came out. That allowed the average idiot the ability to use it as intended (still no internet as far as I was concerned but in those days the net was only for learning; not so much for business).

It wasn’t until the mid-nineties that the company I worked for decided to investigate the possibility of getting online. I took the responsibility to heart and decided to learn everything I could about this new frontier.

Six months later I was an internet junkie (or so I thought). I built my first website and it was either uphill or downhill from there (I really don’t know which). It’s been the same story ever since.  Read more...Click Here (558 words, 10 images, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

SEO & SEM Basics – The Start of Something Good

On-Page SEO… it’s this or else no chance at customers at all

Search Engines index pages; not sites, and they do it  just like the library uses index cards to keep track of their books. As long as a page is identifiable concerning the message that it’s trying to convey, it can be properly indexed.

Unfortunately, most websites are built without any thought about the message. Everyone thinks it’s all about the glitz… but that couldn’t be further from the truth. And, webmasters either try to cram all kinds of information on to a page or they don’t hardly say anything at all. Either way, the site is not going to get the attention of the Search Engines (let alone your customers and prospects).

Each pages on your site has to let the Search Engines know what specifically the page is all about.  Read more...Click Here (863 words, 10 images, estimated 3:27 mins reading time)

• They need to contain good, solid content that talks directly about a subject (not subjects).