Google SEO Starter Guide

December 24, 2008

The long awaited…has finally happened.

Google has released a FREE, SEO best practices, 22 page ebook, appropriately called “Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.” Do not be deceived by the title, it is not only for starter’s. This information has always been available, just took more time to hone in and collect. Now it’s wrapped up in one ebook…for free.

I highly advise to take into consideration everything they say, they aren’t here to deceive, sell you something or lead you down the wrong path my friends, they are telling secrets. Plain and simple.

While reading the post on Google’s download page, I had to laugh at the first comment,

“Nice guide for the uninitiated. What are you trying to do, put SEOs out of business ;)”

I am not going out of business! What I will get out of sharing this guide is an informed customer.

I wrote an SEO Best Practices Guide too, for a website design company. I spent many, many hours scouring the internet, reading every ebook and watching every video I could find on the subject!

Here was my advantage, I already designed plenty of sites to practice my techniques. I put them to work and I succeeded. It all goes back to how hard you are willing to work, your work ethic.

When you read the ebook, Google SEO Starter Guide, and apply what you learn to your site, you are getting what a beginning SEO project would entail. This is invaluable.

Granted, there will always be more to learn about SEO. It, just like the internet, is in a constant state of change. Once you know and begin to understand more pieces of the puzzle, the “continuing education” will make more sense. You can do the work yourself, if you have the time. SEO takes time. Alternatively, you can hire an SEO Company or simply purchase hours of SEO Consulting from Ponder Consulting {use our heads}.

Download Google’s SEO Starter Guide Here

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1 TB External Hard Drive

December 20, 2008

About two months ago, I began frivolously downloading free Photoshop brushes. I can’t recall the site now (although I should have never forgotten it). This site sent me to an external download site such as rapidshare, when I got my first ever virus. The virus was sneakily called Antivirus 2008, and proceeded to install what looked like an antivirus software on my computer.

Being the above average computer operator that I am, I knew something was wrong right away, but it was too late. I have two other workstations but I had no way of transferring all of the files over. I thought this would never happen to me.  I borrowed a friend’s iPod and was able to successfully transfer every single file I had to my other workstation. It took me 2 days to reformat my computer.

I vowed that I would purchase an external hard drive and  I never got around to it, but Santa did! I just received an early Christmas present, a 1 Terabyte External Iomega Prestige Desktop Hard Drive came to me this week.  Do you realize how big 1 Terabyte really is? It is 8 trillion bytes of data. It is 1,024 Gigabytes. It is 1/80 of the space used by the U.S. Library of Congress, the largest library in the world!

I hear that Santa purchased this 1 Terabyte External Iomega Prestige Desktop Hard Drive from Tiger Direct for $129.99 $109.99 plus $1.99 S & H. What a steal! So if you are not backing up your pictures, your files, your videos…you need to. I have done the research and this is by far the best value. Thank you Santa!

Update March 2009!

The product listed above is currently unavailable but they have a cheaper one available now. The Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1TB 3.5″ Hard Drive - 7200, USB 2.0 is available for $119.95 $99.99 plus $1.99 S & H. An even better steal than the one from Santa.

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