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Who Wants Their Website To Soar Up The Google Charts?

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Who Wants Their Website To Soar Up The Google Charts? More traffic, more people, more status, more money, better positioning…

Who wants to be known as the “GURU” or the “BEST” and stand out from the crowd?

It’s just like being in the “A” group at school. Everyone wants to be your friend and wants to play with you.

How do you do that on the internet?

One way is to have a lot of websites “looking” at you. And it’s not that hard!

I’m sure you read lots of posts and stuff and all manner of info on the net. Well, don’t read another thing until you get a gravatar.

What is a gravatar?

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

How did my sites soar up the Google Charts? One way is when I’m surfing the net and reading posts I make comments on those posts.

Imagine next time you read a post on a really popular site. You make a comment and your gravatar is embedded with your name, email(not displayed) and your website URL.

Gee, a backlink from this very popular site, with maybe a Page Rank of 3 or 5 on the home page and no PR on the post page. Doesn’t matter, it’s all passed along – the point being, you’ve got one of the popular kids on the block looking at you.

Here’s the thing – you’re reading stuff anyway so you may as well go another minute so go and get a gravatar as well to make the whole picture complete.

How do I get a gravatar?

Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled sites!

Sign up now!

Just good neighbourly bonding and blogging and good SEO really.

A Quick Update… You’re Now On WordPress 2.8…

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Just a quick update to my WordPress “Smarter Website” Clients…

Our Fanatical and even bordering on Obsessive Service has now updated you to the new sexier WordPress 2.8 Version.

No, you don’t have to do a thing because that’s what we do. What’s new?

Mostly the “widgets” area actually. It’s a lot easier to edit and change stuff to your hearts delight.

Here’s the short story verson of the update but needless to say your site will be found by more people more often and all in the organic search results. Yippee, free traffic!

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

If you want the techy stuff you can have a look here.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8



A Quick Update… You’re Now On WordPress 2.8…

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Just a quick update to my WordPress “Smarter Website” Clients…

Our Fanatical and even bordering on Obsessive Service has now updated you to the new sexier WordPress 2.8 Version.

No, you don’t have to do a thing because that’s what we do. What’s new?

Mostly the “widgets” area actually. It’s a lot easier to edit and change stuff to your hearts delight.

Here’s the short story verson of the update but needless to say your site will be “found by more people more often and all in the organic search results”. Yippee, free traffic!

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

If you want the techy stuff you can have a look here.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8



Gives Me Credibility… Without “Trying To Sell”

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Just had this email in from James, thought you’d appreciate the irony. “Don’t sell and they’ll buy!”

Hi Peter,

Just thought I’d drop you a note to let you know what has been happening with my web site – www.productivitycoaching.com.au.

Originally I thought that it would be for selling my services, I envisaged using adwords etc. to generate traffic and gain clients from that.

What I have noticed however, is that it is working in a very different way.

james-bryden-web-250

When I meet someone and give them my card or a complimentary session coupon, or even do a mail out or any other promotion locally, they generally go online to get a good feel for who I am and how I can maybe help them in their unique situation.

It helps give me credibility as there are a lot of relevant articles & videos to check out that give valuable information WITHOUT TRYING TO SELL.

It is a brilliant relationship building tool that actually sells by not selling!

How about that! All I do is keep adding material and subscribers and let what is now my new process work.

Thanks again Peter,

Cheers,

Jim Bryden

Business Development Manager & Productivity Coach

Mob: 0421 210 444

james@productivitycoaching.com.au

Facebook Name Grab This Weekend

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Get YOUR NAMED Facebook account this Saturday Lunch (for Aussie’s)

Up until now your Facebook profile link was just random characters like this

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703908113

That’s memorable… not!

For the savvy people you could use the ‘profile to’ application which would look like this

http://profile.to/peterbutler/

which is certainly a lot sexier. (Especially with my name in it 😆 )

But Facebook are releasing this weekend the chance to grab your specific named Facebook username URL which will look like this

http://www.facebook.com/username/

This can either be your name or your niche or group name. Facebook have protection in place to guard against name squatting and you can read about that right here on their blog

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130

The Facebook countdown link is here

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Now, if your a client of mine then make sure you get signed up. Onece you’ve secured your names Facebook account let me know the URL so I can update your links on your site. If you’re technogically handicapped then get back to me by close of business tomorrow so we can schedule time to help you get registered.

Facebook Name Grab This Weekend

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Get YOUR NAMED Facebook account this Saturday Lunch (for Aussie’s)

Up until now your Facebook profile link was just random characters like this

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703908113

That’s memorable… not!

For the savvy people you could use the ‘profile to’ application which would look like this

http://profile.to/peterbutler/

which is certainly a lot sexier. (Especially with my name in it 😆 )

But Facebook are releasing this weekend the chance to grab your specific named Facebook username URL which will look like this

http://www.facebook.com/username/

This can either be your name or your niche or group name. Facebook have protection in place to guard against name squatting and you can read about that right here on their blog

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130

The Facebook countdown link is here

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Now, if your a client of mine then make sure you get signed up. Once you’ve secured your names FaceBook account let me know the URL so I can update your links on your site. If you’re technologically handicapped then get back to me by close of business tomorrow so we can schedule time to help you get registered.