Last update: February Sun 11, 2007 (14:58 GMT)
I wrote back in January about my entry into the SEO World Championships. To remind you, it’s basically a competition to get a new web site to rank top on the major search engines for the phrase “globalwarming awareness2007“. I managed to get the site listed in Google within about 2 weeks of launch. Not bad. Yahoo listed it shortly afterwards. MSN on the other hand is being a pain in the digital backside.
Anyways, the site was listed in about 197th position on Google yesterday when I checked. Hehe, a long way off the leaders. It’s not surprising really, as I haven’t done any work on it. There is only the one page with little text. However, I have a master plan, which I’ll soon be unleashing on the World. There is no guarantee that it will work but I do reckon it will get some attention.
If you’re feeling generous, own a web site and would like to help, then please link to my web site http://globalwarmingawareness2007comp.com using the wording Globalwarming awareness2007.
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Last update: October Tue 17, 2006 (09:55 BST)
Last Friday it was Friday the 13th. Unlucky for some - although for me I had a great day! Pat March a dj from Radio Kent needed a web designer to discuss web design (surprise, surprise) for his Friday ‘challenge’ slot. So who do the researchers turn to? Moi and Saxon Internet Solutions! (probably coz my site is top on the engines for web designer Kent).
Anyway it was a very informal chat about how you set up a site. He asked quite a bit about how long I had been trading and how I came up with my business name etc. I managed to include some stuff about the importance of search engine optimisation when building a site. Since the show, I’ve had a couple of sales enquiries from Kent businesses wanting to improve their sites - so it was great publicity.
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Last update: September Wed 20, 2006 (23:34 BST)
Yesterday evening I went to watch my beloved football team Whitstable Town play a league game against Deal Town. Well, what an amazing game of football. I got to the ground just after kick off to find Whitstable down a goal after just 5 mins! A dodgy decision by the ref gave Deal Town a free kick just outside the box apparently. Well that wasn’t the refs only bad decision of the night. Anyway, at half time we were still 1-0 down despite some great shots on goal. Just after into the second half, Deal scored again. Gutting. We managed to bring things level and then Deal went ahead again 2-3. The boys equalised again, but no sooner had we scored than Deal went ahead again! (3-4) We were all wondering whether it just wasn’t going to be our night.
Somehow we caught them on the break again and managed to level it again 4-4. That would have done me at that point, I would have settled for the draw. I just didn’t want them to score again straight after equalising. Again Deal attacked and I held my breath, willing the ball out of our area. We cleared it and attacked. After a bit a goal mouth scramble the captain managed to poke it into the Deal net!! Seconds later, the final whistle.
We had won 5-4! Talk about stressful. You can see me going nuts in the pic - hands aloft, just between the two Deal Town players.
btw if you type into Google “Deal Town FC” in top position is …. Whitstable Town’s site! (yes I designed and optimise the WTFC site)
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Last update: August Thu 3, 2006 (15:57 BST)
I sigh and stop trying to manually install a classified adverts script on a clients server that just doesn’t want to play.
Me: Hello
Caller: *Silence*
Me: Hello? (a little louder)
Caller: *Silence* (I’m guessing now it’s a sales call as these call centres always seem to have this silence)
Me: *waiting for some damn idiot to actually speak* ( I wait for what seems like 10 secs)
Caller: Hellooo (in some stupid ultra friendly tone)
Me: Hellooo! (mimic of same ridiculous tone)
Caller: Good morning and how are you today?
Me: Yeah fine thanks. (in “get on with it” tone)
Caller: Is that Mrs [insert name of my partner/gf]?
Me: Do I sound like Mrs [insert name of my partner/gf] !? (now I’m getting really annoyed)
Caller: Pardon?
Me: Do I sound like a Mrs to you? (said in my deepest voice)
Caller: No, sorry. Can I speak to Mrs [insert name of my partner/gf] please?
Me: No, who’s calling?
Caller: MBNA Finance. When will she be available?
Me: Maybe sometime tomorrow.
Caller: ok thank you.
Me: phone goes down
Grrrr…. I hate these sales call people. Particularly MBNA Finance. They are always phoning up offering loans. Disturbing my work. What’s with the long silence before they say anything? Watch this space for some MBNA phone wind up next time they ring.
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Last update: August Tue 1, 2006 (14:48 BST)
Last year we had to get someone to get rid of some seagulls that were nesting on our roof, between the chimneys. They had become really aggresive and would swoop down on people as they walked down the road. They had attacked some workmen who repaired some loose tiles next door. They’d also dive bombed us whilst we were out in the garden, so we decided they had to go. Paid a fortune to have them removed and have a wooden box with spikes made. Well, they aren’t nesting up there this year (apparently seagulls come back to the same nesting spot year after year) but they are still in the area, and boy, are they noisy buggers!
For the last week we have been woken up by their screeching at about 5 am. The amount of noise they make is incredible. They sit on the roof screeching and then all their mates turn up and start up as well. The sound they make sounds almost prehistoric sometimes. Damn things! I hate seagulls.
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Last update: July Sat 22, 2006 (22:42 BST)
Welcome to my personal blog. Everyone else seems to have a blog these days, so here is mine! Hope you enjoy reading my ramblings. The plan is to blog all sorts here. Stuff about my personal life, my businesses, making money online and probably the odd rant.
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