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Geeks on Steroids did search engine optimization for a select group of clients several years ago but decided to get out of online marketing for other people and focus on our own sites. This year after many meeting and lots of talks we have decided to once again start offering search engine optimization.
Google takes control of W3C and explains to them how they must run their website.
They are no longer allowed to link out without the use of a “index, nofollow” meta-tag applied - blocking the links from search engines.
I wonder how many people will stop buying links from W3C?
Google says to build your sites for visitors not search engines, but aren’t tags like, rel=nofollow, and noindex specifically for search engines?
What use do they serve a visitor? None..
But Google needs, and in may cases demands, that if you want to be in the index you need to use these tags..
This was a post on a forum by Feydakin and I agree with him 100%.
It seems Google has taken over the Internet and now wants to tell us how we should build our websites both for them and our visitors.
I guess when Google says to build our sites for visitors and not the search engines they only want us to listen when it benefits them.
Not us or our visitors.
In the past, I have gotten a lot of emails from people asking me for alternatives to PPC and Affiliate programs, I guess it was my post on PPC that caused these emails.
The truth is it can be tough trying to find alternatives, PPC seems like the way to go for an easy to start up business with little or no money down.
But I may have found an alternative to PPC.
There is a website that is willing to pay you to look at client’s websites and blog about them.
The advantage to the client is a lot of links, traffic and getting his site in a lot of blogs, the advantage to the blogger is he can make around $7.00 give or take a couple dollars per post.
I’m thinking this is going to be a big hit and that other sites offering the same service are not far around the corner.
Here’s why I think its better than PPC
1. I know that one post will make me the amount stated on the website. I saw some post paying as much as $10.00.
Unlike PPC where you have no idea rather your site will make anything.
2. I don’t need any where near the traffic to make this work as compared to PPC.
3. I’m paid for the work I do and do not have to rely on my ranking in the search engines.
4. The company has to respect the blogger, how would you like to have 2,000 bloggers mad at you.
5. Unlike being a publisher you get paid at the end of 30 days.
Now if you do this along with your PPC you get an added bonus and a desire to post everyday.
I submitted one of my blogs so I could get in and play around a little, I’m not much of a blogger so I may not get accepted but rather I’m turned down or not I still think it’s a nice little deal from what little I’ve seen so far.
I’ve decided I’m going to start blogging again not because I’m a good blogger but to help me become a better writer.
I’m changing a couple sites we own into blogs and will start trying to blog everyday on the different sites, as well as returning to the forums to start posting again.
I’ve taken a break for the last two years from the forums and I think I’m starting to miss them.
Power Problems Continue
I’m suppose to be meeting with the head guy over at the power company in the next 30 minutes.
He is suppose to be coming here but we’ll see if he shows up.
It’s not that they don’t care if I have power or not, because they don’t.
From what I’ve found out so far they are replacing all the power poles in the area and are needing to cut the power for four hours a couple times a week.
My first thought was no problem, so I asked for the days.
Friday and Saturday were the days I was given.
Not a problem, I’ll have everyone work 10 hour days and take off on Friday and Saturday.
All seemed to be working good until Friday and Saturday the power never went off.
Once again I went in search for some answers.
After 15 phone calls to the power company spanning out over 3 days and no one able to answer the question I went in search of some workers, after all they are the ones doing the work.
I found two guys that told me for sure no power on Monday, I headed back to the office and started calling all my employees and telling them to show up after 12:00 on Monday.
Guess what, I did have power.
Once again I went in search of better answers, I found two different guys and they informed me that my power will be off for 24 hours starting at 6:00am tomorrow morning.
Who knows the truth anymore.
They kill the power for 5 minutes in the morning, 5 minutes at lunch time, 5 minutes after lunch and 5 minutes in the afternoon.
It also goes off for a couple minutes from time to time in between those times. I have 20 computers with battery backups that are suppose to last for 15 minutes but a lot of those seem to kick off after a minute or two.
I’m finished with my rant for the day.
class=”MsoNormal”>I’ve gotten a lot of email from the last couple days asking where I’ve been. I thought it was best to answer all the emails in one post on my blog.
class=”MsoNormal”>So here it goes,
class=”MsoNormal”>Friday I decided to do my good deed for the year and spent the day helping my brother paint his house.
class=”MsoNormal”>I got home right around mid-night and was both tired and wore out.
class=”MsoNormal”>Saturday I got up around 5:00 am and worked on a couple customer sites as well as working on turning ranked1.net into a blog.
class=”MsoNormal”>Sunday morning I woke up and worked until about 6:00 am when the power went off.
class=”MsoNormal”>It stayed off until around 2:00 pm when it returned I began working again, but around 6:00 pm there was a loud explosion from outside and the power to half the office went out.
class=”MsoNormal”>I called the power company and after waiting for about an hour I decided I could run some extension cords from the side of the office that had power to the side that did not and I would be able to continue working.
class=”MsoNormal”>As I was doing this I saw the power company pull up outside and begin working on the pole. I decided it was in my best interest to wait.
class=”MsoNormal”>After about 30 minutes of them working there was another loud explosion and power from the other side of the office went out as well as all the power from everything I could see outside, I watched as the guys working on the pole jumped into their truck and took off.
class=”MsoNormal”>I picked up the phone to call again, but now the phone was not working.
class=”MsoNormal”>I waited an hour and asked the guard to call and he informed me that we would have power before Monday morning, so I headed home.
class=”MsoNormal”>Monday when I got to the office there was no power and I was still unable to call because I had no phone.
class=”MsoNormal”>I called the phone company from my cell phone but was told I had to call them on a land line. I tried to explain that if I had a land line I would not be calling them.
class=”MsoNormal”>By 8:00 I had employees hanging around the office and no way to work, so I went next door to a school and made a phone call to the power company as well as to the phone company.
class=”MsoNormal”>They told me they were working on the problem and had people out there working right now. I told them they were wrong because I was looking at the pole; I was informed that it was a pole on another street.
I got a number from them I was able to call on my cell phone and walked back to the other street but no one was working there either.
class=”MsoNormal”>I called them again and they then informed me that they were working on the problem about 2 miles away on another street.
class=”MsoNormal”>I got in my truck and made the drive to the other street, I did find some people working but they were sub-contractors working on replacing the power cables for the area and had nothing to do with my problem.
class=”MsoNormal”>I made another call to the power company and was told the guys were working in a big field that was really hard to get to, I said no problem I have a 4 wheel drive truck and I’m sure I want have any problems.
class=”MsoNormal”>But the operator on the other end said wait, they are working underground in a secrete area. I asked if it might be the bat cave they were working on but got no answer from the operator. I’m thinking it must be and they are sworn to secrecy.
I sent everyone home for the day and continued making phone calls about every 15 minutes to the power company. Around 6:00 pm the truck showed up to fix the problem.
class=”MsoNormal”>I was going to ask about the bat cave but was sure they had also been sworn to secrecy and would have pretended not to know what I was talking about.
class=”MsoNormal”>Anyway by 7:00 we had regained power but were told that on Friday and Saturday we would be without power as they were replacing all the lines.