ElectronicSquare

I’ve been reading about and talking to various people about freelance blogging a whole lot lately. Not sure if it is something that I want to get involved with yet, but it definitely has promise. I’ve been writing blogs for various organisations for a few years, and tend to have a good feel for it. I understand their audiences well could probably quickly get to know other audiences too.

The question is, can I actually make money from this alone? Most blogging that I do is part of contracts with the web design agency i own. Rather than just blogging contracts, they are full web site maintenance contracts, with some SEO, some development work and some design. Who is likely to come and ask me to just write a blog? Well, the answer is probably not any single blog will pay anything like a decent salary, but several could add up to a decent bit of pocket money.

I’m about 10% the way through the reading I plan to do on this before making a decision, so I’ll keep you posted!

These days, it is essential for one to have a business website if they are to have any measure of profitability in that business. The main reason for this is that most people these days will turn to the internet when they are looking for any kind of information, so it is essential that you have an online presence in order to capture some of this traffic. However, having a simple website is often not enough to guarantee profits. In order to make your business known, you would need to use SEO Toronto services to make your site have a better page rank. This way, the site will be able to get more targeted traffic and this translates to profits for you. There are two main methods by which you can do SEO on your site:

Doing it on your own

This is often thought of as the cheaper way to do it, since you may not need to pay much in order to increase your page rank. However, you would still need to spend some money on things such as getting articles. In addition to that, you may need to spend a very large proportion of your time doing the SEO in order to make it worthwhile. This means that you would need to avoid doing many other things such as making sure that your site has been designed properly in order to focus solely on the SEO. This is the only way of making it work. The fact that you have to divert your attention from virtually everything else means that it is not a good option.

Getting a third party to do it on your behalf

This is the most popular way of doing SEO, despite the fact that you would need to pay some money in order to have it done. The good thing about having it done in this manner is that it gives you enough time to do other things such as making sure that your inventory is correct. In addition to that, the fact that you would be getting professionals to do the work for you means that the chances of it being successful the first time round are virtually guaranteed. This makes this form of SEO the better option of the two, since it ensures that you end up with better results in the long run. Of course, this also depends on the kind of company that you are working with, so it is good to ensure that you choose one that you can trust.

Co founder of ElectronicSquare, Geoff, is heading back to town for a much overdue reunion. Can just see us getting drunk and inventing “the next big thing” all over again. Pregnant man, blueprintworks, medicineworks, headenergy and more all started over 1 too many pints.

Roll on the fun times!

I have been working towards offering an SEO service over at my Norwich Agency, HeadEnergy. We think this is a service that we can offer, but are stuck with whether we should or not.

Over the years, we have been astounded by the rate of change of web technology, and SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, seems to move at least as fast, if not faster. Not being held back by browser uptake means the search engines can push out new methodologies are whatever rate they feel is best rather than whatever rate consumers can run them.

Keeping up with SEO practices is certainly possible for us, but whether it will become a real service, or a small extra thing we do for select clients is still being decided. Thoughts!?

Just launched a new site over at Head Energy for a local cupcake maker in Norfolk, Cupcakes By Gemma

Okay, been a while since I played with games, so I decided to get cracking with XNA game studio again. Got a pretty decent book that I’ll work through over the next month or so to get back into the swing of things.

Only concern is if my maths is still up to this! Might need a bit of a refresher course!!

So, I want to be a tough guy! Time to start getting a little bit more serious about training. Para’s 10 is one thing, but Tough Guy looks awesome. Been contemplating doing it for about 4 years now, but I am really tempted this year if I can find some support and team mates to help me along. Making use of the local hills in Norfolk is going to be the hardest aspect of the training me thinks!

Decision time over at HeadEnergy…

We are making a final choice on whether to have “Hi, My name is XYZ” or “Hi, I am XYZ” on our business cards first draft… Watch this space!

New version of the business cards in progress. Just trying to decide on whether to hint at the service we provide in the card or not.

So, I finally got a dreaded IPad. Been contemplating getting a tablet for a good few months now. In the end, I think it was that I could get, GQ, Sky Go, a decent Sky News and OReilly Safari reader that finally convinced me to avoid Android. And seems as I’ve got it now, I might as well post to my blog using it!