We now have the knowledged to predict how and where
a piece of bread breaks.The wisdom is knowing not to bother calculating it.
Fleeting Thoughts
New Years Resolutions
I promise to post something every day, ….
….. So far so good!
And would someone try out my twitter clients at @querynet, @iforesee, @fleetthoughts and @ideaforecasting !
Thanks.
Rejected out of hand!
I find it amusing that after I submitted my sites to the Social Media Award section of The Irish Web Awards none of them has even been visited. Rejected before even viewing them. That either is an indication, that your efforts are not worthy of examination, or that you are not acceptable. While none of my sites has ‘hit the big time’ it’s not a precursor to exclusion.
What do you think:
- Idea Forecasting (@ideaforecasting on Twitter)
- Querynet (@querynet on Twitter)
- Fleeting Thoughts (@fleetthoughts on Twitter)
A Picture of a DYI Server
This is a mythical DYI home server that just might be in my house.
Free Beer, not a good advertising campaign
In the area of advertising, outside of posting nude pictures of celebrities and offering Free Beer I’m out of my league. When I talked about my new projects to the Open Coffee Cork gang, I got what I thought was pleasant interest. But outside of the amusing use of my @querynetTwitterBot asking about jaegerbombs, no one else bothered to visit my projects.
I have been seeking any feedback on Idea Forecasting, Query-The.net (@querynet) and fleetingthoght.com (@fleetthoughts) but if I can’t get a reaction from a more or less friendly crowd, it’s unlikely to get much of a reception from anyone else.
SEO and the Robot Races
If you have been paying attention to this site and my attempts to join the ranks of the super wealthy.
I created a DIY Server which sets under my desk at home, connected to a modest DSL line with crappy uplink speeds. It currently hosts five (5) domains, but is essentially unadvertised on the internet and yet I still get visited by up to 10 Robots repeatedly every day (see below) in the form of GoogleBot, Yahoo Slurp, MSN, MSN-Mobile, Baidu and other miscellaneous Curl and Java skimmers.
So what is it that a SEO specialist do, that won’t happen completely natural just by putting any domain up on the internet?
Creating ANY content, or rather interesting content will draw down the bots onto you site, the job of SEO is easy, content creation is the hard part. Let me know what you think.
It doesn’t pay to be a cranky old Blogger.
I posted my latest fabulous project Fleeting Thoughts and no one read it. In fact, no one clicked on it, and no one commented either. The only conclusion is that either the project is rubbish, or because I’m a cranky old Blogger, with no friends. Obviously the latter, as the idea is fantastic ( if poorly executed by me), it now comes as no surprise to me, the cranky old Blogger, that social networks don’t support the cranky behavior, of cranky old Bloggers!
You have to be ‘Social’
So, if you are doing social ‘things’ on the internet, like Twitter applications, be sociable, have lots of followers, who also have lots of followers, who like to Re-Twit!