Well, I thought today I would talk about SEO… I can hear some of you going “what is SEO? A new type of car?” and the answer is, no, its an acronym for Search Engine Optimization, why talk about it? Because I have just spent quite a bit of time making SpikedEffect.com Search engine friendly so its at the forefront of my mind, and it’s also a big part of my job at work.

Why do you have to make a website search engine friendly? Shouldn’t the webcrawlers (what search engines use to index the World Wide Web) adapt themselves to accommodate for every website out there? In theory yes, it should be the responsibility of the webcrawler to adapt to and pick up your website’s content, but in reality, remember that the web is a vast array of information, and its not all uniform.

As new methods of displaying web content arise on the web the webcrawler’s job becomes increasingly difficult, and it just can’t accommodate for the wide variety out there…

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Hey there, well first off sorry for the few days I haven’t written here, I’ve been busy with work and also typical weekend commitments LOL

So… What to talk about today? Haven’t really got a specific topic on my mind this morning, I am watching sky news as I type, and the topic of bullying is quite prominent at the moment, but since I have written about that before (look at the post titled “that inner tear”) so am not going to chat on about that…

So lets go briefly through what has laid about my mind over the past week, with all the hype surrounding the latest consoles (XBox 360, Nintendo Revolution & PS3) you begin to get lost in all the technical babble if you have no idea what they are talking about, which would probably be most of the consumer market, its like they are trying to induce the “WOW!” factor… But it does leave me thinking which console I should get, if I get any…

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