Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Bad SEOs or Bad SEOs Client?


You hear all the time about bad SEOs. Bad SEOs are offering worthless services, failing to deliver on their internet marketing promises, polluting the search engine results?well, a lot of bad things. But how much ever gets said about bad SEOs' spiritual counterparts: bad SEO clients?

As an SEO, I can see things from the other side of the table. You see, despite trying hard to make it clear I'm a good, ethical, results-oriented, smarter marketing, white-hat SEO, I have gotten no end of inquiries from bad prospective SEO clients. Sure, no one who gets cheated is ever entirely to blame, and some cheated businesses are entirely blameless. But the bad SEOs would have too small a market to stay in business if it weren't for almost-as-bad clients.

Shades of Bad SEO Clients

First, let me make clear what I mean by "bad" SEOs. Bad SEOs are bad because they either do unethical things to get e-marketing results, or because they consistently fail to deliver results. A good SEO delivers results and does it without trampling over other people's rights (like submitting automated comments to their websites or trying to get good sites de-indexed).

A bad SEO client, in turn, is someone who will only be satisfied (albeit temporarily) with a bad SEO. Because they refuse to consider ethical web consultants or smarter marketing strategies, they are creating markets for the e-marketing charlatans and black-hats. There are two basic types of bad SEO clients: crooks and fool--oops, I mean, ethically challenged and judgmentally-challenged.

Ethically-Challenged SEO Clients

I haven't gotten so many inquiries asking for out-and-out unethical services. Still, I've been asked about blog-sp@mming software and other shady internet marketing tactics a couple times. A colleague shared this gem with me: "Have you thought about just scanning a book from the library and using it for web content? Or is that too high-risk?" (Seriously, someone asked him this.)

Of course, judging from the amount of comment sp@m and SEO-motivated hacking on the web, there is plenty of demand for this stuff.

Judgmentally-Challenged SEO Clients

A much larger group of bad SEO clients are simply those who insist on putting themselves in the way of fraud. Yes, that's right: I'm blaming the victim. Someone who goes looking for a $5 gold watch can't cry too long if the watch turns out to be fake or hot. With SEO, there are a few more nuances, but it's the same essential idea.

The overwhelming majority of these judgmentally challenged souls are private individuals whose only business is the business-in-a-kit variety. Yet they are also sometimes representatives of actual successful companies. The real businesspeople tend to be quicker to let their misconceptions go (after all, they can afford the real SEO alternatives), but not always. Let's look at some representative types of this group, straight out of my own inbox (note: these are inquiries from prospects, not actual clients).

1. Something-for-(Little More than)-Nothing Clients

Really, I tend to think these people should be in the ethically challenged group, but maybe that's just the remnant of my work ethic making me be mean There are actually two kinds of these clients:

- The ambitious but cheap client: "I'd like to get to the top of Google for the keyword, 'mortgage' so I can turn over $100,000/month in revenue. I can spend up to $1,000."

-The Adsense-is-my-business-plan client: you wouldn't believe the numbers of inquiries I get from people who only plan to make money off Adsense or other on-site advertising?they don't even have a plan for getting repeat traffic, nor do they have content to synergize with the SEO effort. By buying promotional services, they would essentially be buying advertising in order to make money off advertising?you see where that could be a problem?

Another way of looking at it: why wouldn't I just create a site myself and keep all the profit from my efforts? In fact, most SEOs do have their own project sites, which are often monetized by Adsense. The money we could otherwise get from Adsense is one very low baseline for pricing our services. Legitimate SEO clients are typically selling goods or services at a profit rate that works out to ten or more times what they could get from Adsense.

In addition to the greedy, I also see a few other kinds of less common, but still problematic prospective SEO clients:

2.SEO-Starry-Eyed Clients: "Search engine traffic is definitely the best way for me to get pet-sitting clients in my tiny Himalayan village."

3.The Little-Knowledge-Is-a-Dangerous-Thing Client: "Don't tell me about keyword research, content, anchor text, or natural linking strategy, just get me the PageRank (or links, keyword density, or whatever the fad is)."

4.Gullible-and-Not-Letting-Go Client: "I know of at least two services that will submit my site to thousands of search engines for $29.95. If you can't do that, I'll take my business elsewhere."

5.I-Will-Never-Trust-SEO-But-I'll-Consider-It-Anyway Client: "No one can guarantee a good search engine ranking so this is all pointless?I'll just go with that $29.95 search engine submission package someone just emailed me about. At least it's cheap."

In short, if you are going to find good SEO web consultants, you need: 1) realistic expectations; 2) a realistic budget; 3) solid information. Don't expect something for nothing, do a little reading, and it's much less likely you'll fall victim to bad SEOs.

WiMax for student



If you're currently enrolled in college, you're probably beginning to realize just how much technology is going to play a factor in your learning experience. While it used to be that the most high-tech piece of equipment you had to send a child off to school with might be a typewriter, these days it's not even enough to simply have a desktop or laptop computer--you must have the kind with the right amount of memory, the right capacity for handling a workload, and even particular software. And for befuddled parents, it's not the demands of one's children--it's the requirements of the particular departments of study.

Whether you're attending Central Texas College in Killeen or Greensboro College in Greensboro, technology has never been so important when it comes to getting a good education. But how can you possibly stay connected if you don't have a powerful wireless internet connection outside of the common spaces on campus? There are a couple of different ways to try and solve that sort of problem. You could split the cost of getting broadband with roommates and then invest in a router so that you also have wireless internet at home, but that would only result in a signal that ends up lagging because everyone is online at once. Or you could resolve to always study on campus, but that can quickly lead to trouble and frustration, as sometimes there are loud groups in the library, and the stress of getting to off-campus housing late at night is enough to be a deterrent to many students, especially young women.

So what's the best way to stay connected to everything from the latest discussion you're participating in via Blackboard to your friends back at home? A solid and reliable connection to the internet, for sure. But Wi-Fi signals are often limited or unreliable, and there's no way that you can tote a broadband connection around with you. So what's a smart college student to do?

Turn towards the future of technology, of course. Because so many college students are not weirded out by the prospect of getting online and updating their Facebook via their smartphone or even checking out a website on someone's iPad, the notion of using a lot of equipment in nontraditional ways seems like the norm. So something like WiMax, which is wireless signal for your web surfing that relies on towers like a cell phone company rather than using the typical old paradigm of getting online, makes a lot more sense. In fact, if you really look at things, it makes a lot more sense than dealing with the unreliable nature of using the on-campus network, where there are so many different students all connected that it is a wonder that the entire thing doesn't crash on a regular basis.

But there's something more about WiMax. If you're living in a dorm and don't want your roommate eavesdropping when you have sensitive conversations about being homesick, you can tote your laptop elsewhere and still manage to Skype without interruption. And if you are trying to find deals on textbooks, it's a lot more pleasant to scour the internet from the privacy of your own room rather than in the one spot in the common area where you can actually pick up the wireless signal. In short, it just makes considerably more sense if you want to be a part of a bright future to get on board with the technology that's going to get everyone there, sooner rather than later.

How to Optimize Your Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery


After used for a time, we can obviously feel that our computer getting more and more slow. The start time extend from 30 seconds to 1 minutes or more. When we use the computer to play game or wacthing video, the computer suddenly freeze. Then we should restart the laptop. Let me introduce some simple maintenance once or twice a month can make a difference in performance on all of his team.
  • Spyware, adware and viruses must be detected and cleaned frequently to maximize the efficiency of your computer.
  • Your Dell inspiron 1545 battery hard drive and personal files will be stored and managed properly to ensure that they are not damaged in the course.
  • Valuable information must be supported by a separate storage source such as a CD or DVD.
Use the following steps to clean the PC and then examine the steps in the Protect your PC against the most common problems to defend the security.

Step 1 - to undo harmful changes to the Windows System Restore

Undo harmful changes to the Dell Inspiron 1501 Battery using Windows System Restore. This tool is located in front of your computer to a date that unwanted software is installed or started receiving the annoying pop-ups

Step 2 - Malicious Software Removal

Install anti-virus software and keep virus definition files current is the best way to preserve the health of your computer. Test your Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery computer's exposure to online security threats and learn more about the HP recommends anti-virus solution on the connection from Symantec Security.

Step 3 - Manage efficiently drive

Manage your hard disk more efficiently using Microsoft Windows built-in system tools. Disk Cleanup deletes temporary files and other data that make the computer slower. Defragmentation program takes all the scattered data and grouped them together in the front of the unit and helps your hard drive work faster and more data.
In the end we advice you backup your computer and reinstall your OS once a year.