Tuesday 31 March 2009

Invited to be Industry Expert for .Net Magazine

From March 2009 .net magazine has invited me to be one of their Industry Experts each month in the Big Question section if their magazing and website. Click the image below:





I appear for the first time in this month's issue - 188. I'm really pleased to have been asked to write in the feature.

Thursday 12 March 2009

Second Life - a whole new world

www.secondlife.com for those who don't know is a free online virtual world imagined and created by its Residents. From the moment you enter Second Life (SL), you'll discover a fast-growing digital world filled with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity.

As I explained in my earlier Blog; we are researching the popular web platform to see if there are ways for us to engage with our current customers and potential new customers.

We've had a busy few weeks on SL. We now have a virtual office and we've even got a Red Bull vending machine! LOL! Yes I know it sounds a little bit "out there" but you'll have to come in and experience it for yourself to understand!
Lots of other plans but can't go into more detail at this stage.





Come and have an explore around this amazing world - my name in Second Life is Dickie Antfarm. Feel free to hook up and I'll be happy to show you around.

If anyone reading this is an expert in SL, then please do get in touch. It's always good to pick up tips and recommendations.

Thursday 5 March 2009

Search Engine Submission Made Easy

It's all well and good having a nice website designed but you also need to make sure the major search engines know that your website is there and that it gets listed so you can drive extra traffic to your site.

The easiest way to do this is to manually submit the website. Each search engine has it's own submission process. It's best to go to the submission page of each site and read the guidelines listed there.



I have listed the different search engines below with a link to their submission pages:

Google: http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/uk/free/request
MSN: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

Don't worry about AOL, they now use Google as their search engine.

There are also a couple of directories which you should submit your website to:

Open Directory Project: http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
Yahoo! Directory: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/directory/suggest/suggest-06.html

Google is without doubt the search engine used by the majority of people so make sure you spend some time going through the Google site and check out their tools and other resources such as Google AdWords. Go to http://www.google.co.uk/options/ to find out more.

Finding your way around the search engines might seem slightly daunting to begin with, but it will definitely be worth your investment in time and before long that extra traffic will arrive.