blogging 102

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes There’s been a story brewing for quite some time about the attempt by Jason Gambert to trademark the term “SEO”. Gambert claims that the words “search engine optimization” have no real linguistic English value beyond being a process;. So, he’s trying to trademark “SEO” as a service, basically claiming that “SEO” itself is Net lingo and has no “Official English linguistic value.” In his blog, Gambert claims that “I am helping the search engine marketing community establish an approved SEO process, which can be sold as an ‘SEO service.’” He goes on to explain that other industries have standards and guidelines and, as these industries are recognised as services, it means that there is a way for consumers to identify practitioners with credible offerings. Now, although we can jump on the “fry Gambert” bandwagon and I think that his idea is nothing more... 

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes By Dennis Francis Many people set up websites and hold their breath for the thunderous traffic to reach them. After a few weeks of loneliness, they contact their web designer to find out why no one has visited them. The usual answer is that it takes a while for the search engines to find you and index your pages. What you never seem to hear is that the web designers are correct and wrong at the same time. The biggest mistake made by people who want to promote their business on the web is to do the promoting last. If you are going to build a website that people are interested in, start by identifying your audience. a great way to do this is to blog. Setting up a blog takes a fraction of the time it takes to build a website and you can begin adding content immediately. convey_source = "English"; Read More →