General stuff about me…there won’t be much in here…
New Life for an Old Site
I have an old site (old by my terms, not in years) that I haven’t done much with other the last year. I post to it sporadically, but when people are looking for Internet Business Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses, they don’t find my site. Before today, my site was about business marketing ideas, but that has been a tough market, the market is flooded with sites, and a lot of good sites as well. As of today though I’m sticking to what I know, and putting a spin on the entire site.
It will no longer be about generic business marketing, but will focus on online marketing for businesses especially small businesses. Hopefully this will revive this site, and make it into a formidable competitor.
By the way, this is the same site that is suffering from supplemental issues still. Yes, I still do have too many websites, and I’m trying to redefine my focus toward sites that I know I can do well with. Also, sites that I can write easily for that play to my strengths, rather than sites I don’t know anything about.
RSS Feeds I Read Daily
Here is a list of the RSS feeds I read daily:
Darren Rowse gives great tips for increasing traffic. Most posts are specific and don’t focus on him. He is starting to ask more questions of his readers which I don’t care about…
I like Matt’s goal setting and how much information about reaching those goals he gives. He will eventually be a pretty big player in the SEO arena if he can stay motivated.
Jim Boykin’s Internet Marketing Blog
Jim Boykin gives priceless tips and tricks that have earned me more money than I can measure. Even though he doesn’t post often, it is always a great feed to keep.
I am a late comer to the Earners Blog, but the archives are the most valuable asset to this blog. I can’t stop myself from having 10 windows open every time I visit the site. If you are looking for ideas to make money online, this is the place.
SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog
I don’t do anything black hat, but this blog puts a different perspective on my marketing plans. It keeps it interesting.
Digg / Technology
This has become one of my favorite blogs. He always gives free downloads and resources for Adobe Illustrator. I have used many of the free downloads at various sites.
Search Engine Optimization – SEO Refugee Blog
SEO Refugee is a great site that deals with being Dugg, running a forum, and starting a new site from scratch and getting massive traffic.
Here’s a screenshot of my Google homepage:
Get a Free .edu Link Tomorrow!
In our ever evolving quest at getting links, people have come to appreciate that the .edu (Education) link is one of the greatest prizes, the holy grail of links. This is not because of some special power that a .edu TLD gives you, but because they are difficult to find, and even harder to acquire.
Because of their illusiveness, they have a huge trust factor and can become the authority on almost anything easily.
Here are a few reasons why .edu links are hard to come by:
They usually can’t be purchased.
You can’t beg for them.
You’re not a web designer for a college.
You don’t know any IT directors.
With that in mind, how much would you actually pay for a .edu link?
Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. PST I’m going to give you a post that will show you how you can get a free .edu back link in under 1 minute.
Sign up for the RSS feed, or refresh your browser in about 8.5 hours!
Mac Webmaster Tools
As a Mac-using webmaster, I always have co-workers and friends asking what programs I use.
So here they are:
Design:
Adobe Photoshop CS2 – I can create anything that I need to and love using tutorials to learn more.
Adobe Illustrator CS2 – I don’t know much of anything about Illustrator except that I should be using it for logo’s since it is vector based. I can however follow a tutorial. 🙂
Code:
Smultron (Text editor) – I tried a few of the paid text editing programs, and they didn’t do anything more than Smultron (for the stuff that I do). So I stuck with Smultron. It is very lightweight and easy to use.
Dreamweaver 8 – Don’t really know much about Dreamweaver, I’ve never used any tools like it before, and don’t know if it really has a place in my life with all of the free templates available, and the ability of my developers to turn a PSD (Photoshop) into CSS/XHTML (or WordPress) in just a few days.
Adobe GoLive – As with Dreamweaver 8 I don’t really know much about GoLive except that the default code is heavy.
FTP:
Cyberduck – Cyberduck is without a doubt the best FTP program I’ve used. At first I didn’t like the layout and wanted something with side-by-side windows like I was used to on my PC. After using a few of the side-by-side programs with limited success, I tried Cyberduck. I stuck with it because it actually worked, when all of the others crashed. Now I like the fluid interface and it’s ability to interact with Mac OS X instead of residing on top of it.
Misc:
Firefox – Crashes all the time, can’t seem to avoid the spinning beach (pizza, colored) ball (wheel, circle).
Entourage/Gmail – email for work and personal.
iTunes/iPhoto – Managing music and pictures.
Quicken 2006 – Horrible for my business but it was free. It won’t print invoices, and doesn’t really have a way to track them. Good for personal finance.
Apple Remote Desktop – Absolutely necessary for managing multiple computers across multiple campuses.
NetRestore Helper – Create and deploy an image of a computer. My smallest image (full version of Mac OS X 10.3.9 with apps) is 750 mb’s. Yes, I’m proud of that!
Microsoft Office 2004 – Excel and Word mainly.
That’s about it. For a more complete list of the programs I have installed check out this post. Have a program to recommend? I’d love to hear it!
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