Hello to the world out there, I’m back… even though in reality I’ve been here all along, I’ve been back for the past few weeks quite intensively working on things behind the scenes and behind closed doors.

There’s been a lot going on both with the development of www.spikedeffect.com and my life, and to be honest there is so much to catch up on that I wont be able to cover everything in a single post, unless I really want to bore you to utter death.

For this post I’ll cover the two major things that have happened (or is happening in the case of development) in the recent past / present and without further ado… here goes.

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Well for today’s post, I thought I’d talk about what I’ve been working on recently in my free time, well apart from sorting out arrangements for my birthday party

First on the agenda was to answer the common question of what is “the SpikedEffect” and who it was that was behind it, so I activated the FAQ section on SpikedEffect.com and created a category to answer the common questions that could be asked about what SpikedEffect.com actually is and who it is that is behind it. This can be found HERE

Next up was the need to start the thinking behind a module I have been meaning to implement for a while now so that I could continue development on the part of my site created in Macromedia Flash, this module that I’ll be creating I can reveal is a management system for the poems that I have written. “Ok, but what and how has that got to do with your flash side of the site?”, I hear you ask, well its because I intend my flash side of the site to be able to utilize the information entered in the admin of the module…

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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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