Hard disk gave up
I had a bit of rest when my hard disk gave up the ghost. I did not really expect it to conk out for another three years but the things I was making it do finally did it in. Traffic exchanges were the primary reason why my hard disk gave up on me. It was not something which is ordinarily asked of a computer. But traffic exchanges were somehow intriguing and beguiling for someone who wants to drive traffic to his sites. Much like speed-dating, joining a traffic exchange gets your site seen by many people while you also see a lot of other sites you would otherwise not see at all all of this happening is a short span of time which increases its seductive appeal.
The natural progression from manual exchanges is automated exchanges for after all, computers were supposed to make our work lighter, right? I figured, I could view more websites without too much effort by joining autosurf exchangess. This was fine in theory at least. The major setback that I had was the wear and tear on my hardware which is kind of old. The other negative factor was that viewing so many sites in a short time causes eyestrain and I needed to rest my eyes for long periods of time.
Clearly, this was not a totally good idea for me. There had to be another way and my hard disk losing its magnetic glow forced me to consider other options. So, it's back to the drawing board, so to speak. I had seen the word SEO bandied about in the many discussions and forums and articles. SEO of course stands for Search Engine Optimization. Like something very esoteric and hidden from the masses, SEO is like the Holy Grail of SEO masters who make it their life's work to outwit or make search engines work for them. In simple terms, when somebody wants to find something from the Internet, he uses the search engines to bring to him a list of websites that deal with his keywords or the words that he wants the search engines to locate for him.
It is therefore imperative to know how the search engines conduct their searches and how they present their result which is aptly named SERP or, search engine result pages. Knowing how the search engines do their job allows technically-savvy individuals to make the search engine algorithm work for them. So, it is not uncommon for one expert to trumpet to the world his feat of landng in the number one spot for his keywords.
This was all very strange to me and somehow I did not feel that I should concern myself with their techniques. I belonged to a lower species of Internet denizens and SEO was certainly a concept which was too high above me. Be that as it may, one cannot remain untouched by SEO if one is concerned with bringing traffic to one's website. No man is an island, they say and a website floating in the vast void is lonelier than an island in the Pacific Ocean.
The natural progression from manual exchanges is automated exchanges for after all, computers were supposed to make our work lighter, right? I figured, I could view more websites without too much effort by joining autosurf exchangess. This was fine in theory at least. The major setback that I had was the wear and tear on my hardware which is kind of old. The other negative factor was that viewing so many sites in a short time causes eyestrain and I needed to rest my eyes for long periods of time.
Clearly, this was not a totally good idea for me. There had to be another way and my hard disk losing its magnetic glow forced me to consider other options. So, it's back to the drawing board, so to speak. I had seen the word SEO bandied about in the many discussions and forums and articles. SEO of course stands for Search Engine Optimization. Like something very esoteric and hidden from the masses, SEO is like the Holy Grail of SEO masters who make it their life's work to outwit or make search engines work for them. In simple terms, when somebody wants to find something from the Internet, he uses the search engines to bring to him a list of websites that deal with his keywords or the words that he wants the search engines to locate for him.
It is therefore imperative to know how the search engines conduct their searches and how they present their result which is aptly named SERP or, search engine result pages. Knowing how the search engines do their job allows technically-savvy individuals to make the search engine algorithm work for them. So, it is not uncommon for one expert to trumpet to the world his feat of landng in the number one spot for his keywords.
This was all very strange to me and somehow I did not feel that I should concern myself with their techniques. I belonged to a lower species of Internet denizens and SEO was certainly a concept which was too high above me. Be that as it may, one cannot remain untouched by SEO if one is concerned with bringing traffic to one's website. No man is an island, they say and a website floating in the vast void is lonelier than an island in the Pacific Ocean.
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