I’m still preparing myself for the outcry from users though. I’m stocked up on cans of beans, so I should be ok.
Right now I’m on a train to London…
Right now I’m on a train to London to do some research ahead of a website I’ll be making for a national cancer organisation’s conference.
We’ve worked some interesting features into it too–including a “design your dream conference wiki” that should up their social networking shares substantially.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), a primer
The number of people I see selling SEO services who really have no idea is appalling. (I’d say shocking, but there are a lot of opportunists out there!)
I’m going to break my series of SEO posts into the following sections:
- Code
- Site Speed
- Social integration
- Blogging
- Back-links and all other things link oriented
Naturally there is a lot of cross-over between them, but over the course of the series you’ll get a better idea of some key concepts, and some fairly original (but proven) ideas for their implementation.
All of course to get you more quality visitors!
The Compliment Site
I was recently tasked with creating The Compliment Site, a place where random strangers can compliment each other to try and brighten someone’s day.
It’s the simplicity of it I like. A simple idea, and simple execution. The only images used throughout the entire site are user’s profile pictures, and social sharing icons for Facebook and Twitter. The rest is all just code, even the header. It makes for a very fast site, that if marketed properly, could do very well.
It hasn’t been launched yet, but it is there is you’d like to try something a little different.
I can make you an awesome, SEO’d personal online brand
I spent much of last year involved in making personal brands for people to improve their search engine rankings, industry positioning, and overall getting them in more clients and more revenue.
On the back of my 17 years web development/design experience, my decade long history of helping people with their social networking, and months of testing and improving my system, I’ve created a personal branding product that will do wonders for you, your reputation, and of course your income.
Currently it’s only being offered through People Per Hour (PPH), but watch this space–when I’ve got a few more of these under my belt you can expect this package to cost over £700.
Right now it’s just £167!
“i thought you bought 30000 followers on twitter what happen to it”
With my sample of one (after all, I’m the only person I know of who’s done this) I had, unsurprisingly, mixed results.
On the positive, I did notice I had a much steadier stream of new, legit followers flow in after I did it. I suspect I was right in my thinking that people who looked at my Twitter profile would see I had a lot of followers, and therefore be more inclined to follow me themselves—trusting me as a known opinion leader.
To the negative, I felt dirty. Plain old like I’d been rolling around in pig filth. Friends and clients would notice and speak to me about how popular I was, and even though I was up-front about what I was doing, I always felt pretty sheepish about it.
Nonetheless, I was still pretty peeved to receive this tweet from “Kaz The Masturbator”:
@petermahoney i thought you bought 30000 followers on twitter what happen to it
— Kazumi (@kazz27) January 1, 2013
Sure enough, they were gone. About six weeks after I bought them. Of course I can’t complain, it was sketchy to begin with.
Kaz the oneist was clearly a front, the dodgy seller’s way of telling me they’d taken back my purchase.
As an experiment, it was worth undertaking. And I’ll sum it up like this: I got what I paid for—a lesson. And while I may not be playing alone like Kaz, I’m certainly 30,000 followers more alone, and happier for it.
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