How does one learn SEO?

Just how does one learn SEO?

Let's pretend that a web page is something that has always been there for as long as one can remember. Or perhaps since when you looked at your first web page in this life. And now imagine you would like to add a page or several hundred, or thousand to this resource. And then you might see that you are not the only one who would like to do exactly this. And this is something that successful search engines do not fail to see: that the intention of the internet is to expand at a rate that would potentially rival an entire universe or two on a daily basis.

If we have not done so yet, it will not be long before the time has come when the number of new new pages created and added each day to this internet will rival the number of stars that hover in the void. That same void which the earthling masses have affectionately termed as space and of which they are convinced is the binding nothingness and the entire woof and warp of the finite universe.

But it is only a  minute portion of this planet's population that have thus far trained in the exact technologies and have acquired the needed skills and ability to attempt the domination of cyberspace through the creation of various sentient-like entities (server and/or client side pre-programmed instructions), or monopolistic websites if you prefer, that feed on or, are fed by those that have become mindless minions to that new {and few} self elected and self imposed higher masters that demand your subservience. And follow them you do.

What does this have to do with learning SEO?
The answer is more pertinent than you would think or perhaps even care to entertain but, nonetheless, is vital to any ongoing success. Because we do live in a world where decency between fellow beings places a distant second, not first. If you don't believe this, open any newspaper that talks on local or even geo-political events and there you will find evidence of a continuous insanity on the part of some to disrupt the lives of others through some mere happenstance that has caused them to be physically located as neighbors to any of these certifiable nut-cases. And that same disrespectful brand of mind also pervades the internet with their brand of what should be and what your role in their insidious design is to be. And the favorite tools of those that are insane are to keep everyone else in a state of poverty, ignorance and disease. If you wanted to invade a country, you can just buy up the hill in that other country and migrate your minions to live there. Then you own it. A bloodless victory. And each of these scenarios exist in some form or another in the cyberworld too. For specific geographical website traffic, the buying of a domain name in another country is a very easy way to infiltrate that country. And so, be it viruses, lack of correct server hardware or even not knowing that HTML is actually King, one can mimic in the cyberworld whatever goes on in the real world.

Do'h example
You might think that by purchasing soft drinks that contain sugar, you are avoiding products that contain aspartame derived products. Not so, in aussie, a number of supermarket soft drinks now contain both, sugar AND neotame (You have to click on "Nutritional information and ingredients" to see the inclusion of additive number 961, also don't forget to check out the link to "social responsibility") which is manufactured majorly from aspartame. A list of aussie numbers (naughty additives are colored red in the list) can be found here. So don't get duped by reading the word sugar and think that sugar is the only sweetener used. So don't forget to check the list to ensure that there is no hidden sweet addendum included as a surprise to your planned physical longevity.

Same as when many websites tell you that seo is an expensive, ongoing and needed cost. It has always been basic HTML and a while it is best to keep your site fresh (the ongoing part of the equation), once it is done, it does not need to be redone continuously at great expense unless you are re-branding or are in constant need of a major overhaul of your site.

The beginning of a successful SEO education.
So many of you will only want to SEO your website once and get the best possible standing from there on out. And to do this, you can't be dumb about it at the onset.

As this article states, there are those that are happy to walk all over you by either keeping you in the dark or by having you spend all your profit trying to make a profit. So step through our seo guide to website webpage fundamentals as these will provide you with the underlying structure needed to ensure your success.

But if you are uncertain and want excellent ongoing service, you should get the care and maintenance package from us ($10 per month for most small-medium sized sites) which we do to maintain the freshness of your website and preserve your google standings, or we can even seo your website with the solid grounding it needs at a very competitive price.

7 Tips for creating a new website for business owners

Here are 7 tips for the website owner to consider when he first creates his new business homepage: 

1. Use Google Places and show customers where you are 

2. If you design your website with a super sized screen, be considerate with font size for those that that only have tiny screens like mobile phones & laptops for instance.

3. Use some pictures on your page. Even well placed google picture ads can add fun to your page.

4. Offer a variety of choices for visitors to go. Make sure there are a few links that go around your site or to the sites of others. 

5. Check that your website works in firefox, chrome and internet explorer. Sad as it may be, some businesses have no choice but to use internet explorer.

6. When searching the web, use a string of words to find what you are looking for. The more words you use, the better the search engine can understand what you are looking for and return a more precise result for you.

7. Recommend this page to any online group or friends you think might benefit from the above data.

This data is taken from our free online website templates download page.

The Website Administrator Vs the SEO

Let's have a look at a battle of the Website Administrator Vs the SEO.

Some people think that their job title should be more important than what it is and so they try and shift the meaning of things. Alas, but a word is just a word and that is how it is. That is, without getting into the semantics of words and symbols.

Now, i came up with a definition of Website Administrator and posted it on the front page of our website because all the definitions i could find listed in authoritative (and informal) sources all seemed to be inadequate or attempted to apply some spin on the definition to suit their own agenda. It actually took me a few months to string together a bunch of words that would concisely encompass and delineate the activity in it's entirety. But i think i got it down pretty well. This exercise gave me an inkling on why creating the English Oxford Dictionary was such a gargantuan task. For those that don't know, there is one Oxford Dictionary, the others are spawned from this single source. Aside from newer definitions which are continuously added or the other more recent published topical efforts which capitalize on the goodwill of the original historic masterpiece, it is a brilliant piece of work that will become a testament to the language of our time period.

Now we also have a new activity in the field of web design work known as SEO.  And i would happily argue that if there were such a subject as taught in our schools as WebSite Administration, then Seo would not really be a separate subject (nor a separate term) but would merely be encompassed within the studies of what ever course teaches correct web page formulation and layout.

If a Website Administrator knew his business, he would already know how and what the search engines look for and of course he would include this in any wire frame design or web page he created. This makes the Seo redundant. Instead, we have a huge amount of money being funneled into SEO as if it were a new science when it fact it simply demonstrates that many of those in the industry who should know better actually don't and it is the customer who is double billed for this ignorance.

When i get bored, i sometimes go around the web and look at the code of websites and see what optimization techniques they use. And to understand what i see, let me tell you a story about modern educational techniques. Oh what right do i have to utter words on the subject on teaching? Well, I do hold two (actually three, but two are the same course, slightly different layout so i count it as only one) official  teaching degrees and several years of full time experience in training others (adults) under my belt. I have even trained people in languages that i don't speak! It doesn't matter if you don't believe this, but it can be done. You just have to know how to spot when comprehension stops in a person.

Anyway, i was enrolled on one of the early computer programming courses offered to students in Australia, we didn't have certificate levels in those pre Win95 days, and i wanted to write a little DOS protected mode program which manipulated the PC speaker to add sound to DOS games. After a few months, i asked when we would learn to initialize the mouse pointer and was told we would not learn that on this course. I asked a friend at a local university doing a more esoteric and advanced programming course at what year level he would learn this, and his response was that you would only learn that on the job if needed, mouse and video modes were not at school.  This was really a mute question, i already knew how to initialize the mouse with about twenty or so keystrokes using inline code (same with video modes too by the way, but by using assembly language, not inline code), but the point is that the school had no intention of enabling students to be truly effective or to arrive into a position where they would be able to venture forward on their own and create their own effective and saleable software. If you wanted advanced knowledge of computing, you were going to need to know how to self study. And not much has changed. If all the students currently on a web page training course were actually taught how to Seo their pages from the onset, then oh my, what a state the world would be in. All these long established businesses that have spent so much money in maintaining a superiority would loose their positions with-in half a year. All those over paid Seo companies would actually have to learn something on the subject rather than taking payment for work that a simpleton could do and achieve simply because of policy changes bought about by external forces and are actually results which are not really attributed to their own efforts but by mere happenstance of the events of others at this point in time.

So, the reason we need an Seo is because our Website Administrators and web page designers actually do not know how to set their pages up correctly in the first place. And this also means that in actual fact, your Seo is often better as a designer than the designer is himself., it is just that the seo does not have the formal training to know what he doing when it comes to design and so relies on the designer to put something their that he can then revamp. And this current mess is actually attributable to the intentional training of ignorance through omission.

Now, to understand where this is coming from, you should grab hold of a little book entitles "nobody dare call it treason" which was published many years ago and probably long out of print. The subject matter may or may not be true, that is up to you to decide, but the logic is sound. Most schools exist to train our working classes to remain working classes, not to train them to a point where they can then outsmart the older established businesses. So a part of educational system also relies on keeping the masses ignorant so as to maintain a status quo.

This is why you will find that some of the biggest businesses will assist with the preparation of study materials for many current official courses. Not that this is all bad. But training people in this way does lead to wholesale ignorance. I doubt that Mr. Gates would even know how to correct many portions of the Windows code anymore.

Now i am not going to say that i am more informed than you on the subject of Seo, but i will tell you that i am not about to tell you everything i know on the subject. Why? Because I don't see anybody else doing it and i would like to be able to offer those that pay me a little more than those that don't. I see lots of talk on content and tags but at the end of the day, there are really very few that are honestly effective. Some use some tricks more than others, and some invent newer tricks that are fleeting, not really the be all and end all of Seo but can possibly hold enough weight to cause some industries to think twice. But mostly just hype and which is why we are seeing the term Social Media springing up more than usual these days. Well, in all honesty, facebook sux and they are doing their bit to try to be the internet at this time. This occurs now and again so be on watch for the next facebook and twitter. 'Cause like any dog, they will have their day. They really offer very little benefit beyond many of the other person to person software that has been and those that are about to come yet. In fact, will come the day that people will all have their own websites with plug-in features that do exactly the same thing. The down side for big business is that we don't need javascript or flash enabled for our own home page to work and with these two points missing, it makes it harder for big business to horde simple marketing sales. In fact, the sooner people stop acting like sheep and start to ignore massive 'everybody is using it' sites and services, the sooner a cash balance will flow evenly through our world.

And i wouldn't worry too much about all this as it is still fully my intention to give you enough knowledge that will see you gain an excellent advantage over much of your competition. But i am not about to part publicly with everything i have come to know and understand over the years just so that big business can plow over the little guy. Even the opening notes on our free online Seo Course is enough for the little guy to cause concern to the bigger guys, but not enough for the bigger guys to do anything about it. Such is life.

    Recommended reading: None Dare Treason , conspiracy, education

Webpage Content Writer for leisure and lifestyle

When it comes to webpage content, it is a great advantage to have a writer who knows how to formulate your content for great reading.

If you are seeking some quality original content for leisure and lifestyle industries, then Julia Hebaiter is one qualified and experienced writer/editor you should know and hire. Starting with her own business ventures in the field of fine dining, she has personally come to know and write for many of Melbourne's best chefs & restaurateurs.  But it doesn't end there. She is without doubt an excellent researcher and has written brilliantly on many popular attractions which span this great country from shows and events and unique businesses of interest. But I think she also draws some of her writing passion from her personal experiences like whitewater rafting, swimming with the dolphins, ballooning over the city and other such forays into the game of life. Not to forget the fine food and wine at some of the best addresses on the map.

With loads of articles already published in hard-copy and in website postings, she is well worth a little further research. You can view a large selection of Julia Hebaiter's online articles through the above link.

SEO urban myths and legends

Are there SEO urban myths and legends?


As if dazed and alone, the seo raises his wary hands.  Fingers now out stretched and palms upturned, he shifts his gaze to the blood red tips where capillaries have exploded under an incessant and dedicated onslaught of a determined mind.

The smeared qwerty keys appear to scream as they beckon for the story to be told. "Hit me, Hit me" each key commands as yet another lone monitor pixel decides to forever surrender light for darkness. Like an ancient pleasant memory that was once happily etched and fondled but is now forlorn. Like the once popular website that has settled into oblivion for want of the misplaced word.