Becoming An SEO Expert In Palm Desert

If you want to become known as the Palm Desert SEO Expert, all you have to do is create a blog, post once a day, or at least a couple of times per week, ensuring you include the search terms you expect people to use to find your blog or website, add keywords in your META data, and like magic, you will rise to the top of the heap and be found on the front page of Google. That sounds easy, right?

OK, I am often in the semi-facetious mode when I write things like that. The truth is, many people lack the time or talent to create a blog and write useful copy daily, or even weekly for that matter. It takes some fairly simple skills to create a blog, but it takes some serious dedication and a bit of writing talent to produce useful content to share with your audience. Then there's all of that "behind the scenes" stuff, called META data.

Lest I leave out the rest of this story, you also have to promote your blog and/or your website, through every method available to you. Yes, you guessed it. That means Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+, and any other social networking resource where you can post content.

I almost forgot to mention two more rules. If you want to be found by someone searching for "Palm Desert SEO Expert", be sure to include those words in your title (if possible) and definitely within the body of the content you are posting on your blog and your website.

You can also cheat a bit, with a paragraph like the one below. Here I simply paste from a stored text file a standard explanation of who I am and what I do. It makes perfect sense that if I expect you to take advice from me, you should know something about me and my business.

That's the best advice I have for you in this SEO expert dissertation. One last thing, though: Do your best to post original content (for two reasons).

  1. your words and your sentence structure become your voice.

  2. if you have to use someone else's content to make your point, maybe you are not the expert after all!


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Diligently working toward becoming your Palm Desert SEO Expert; Rouzell Enterprises is a Palm Desert based company providing compassionate care to people who use computers. This includes computer repair and computer support, also computer training and network support, and social media training and support. If you have any need for SEO,regarding computers, networks, or social media, one call to Brian Rouley at Rouzell Enterprises is all it takes to get the help you need.

Jay Abraham says this:

Jay Abraham says this: “And you should live for making people’s lives better because you’re in it.” http://ow.ly/dtR9o

 

Diligently working toward becoming your Palm Desert SEO Expert; Rouzell Enterprises is a Palm Desert based company providing compassionate care to people who use computers. This includes computer repair and computer support, also computer training and network support, and social media training and support. If you have a need for SEO, or help with computers, networks, or social media, one call to Brian Rouley at Rouzell Enterprises is all it takes to get the help you need.

Unstuck Ringtone Production

Unstuck Ringtone Production ...forever since I’ve posted. Perhaps this is a result of “analysis paralysis” http://ow.ly/cKW91 http://goo.gl/lQCqU

 
Diligently working toward becoming your Palm Desert SEO Expert; Rouzell Enterprises is a Palm Desert based company providing compassionate care to people who use computers. This includes computer repair and computer support, also computer training and network support, and social media training and support. If you have any need for SEO,regarding computers, networks, or social media, one call to Brian Rouley at Rouzell Enterprises is all it takes to get the help you need.

Right Now at Coachella Valley Fun

Right Now at Coachella Valley Fun: We have previews of upcoming events. And there are plenty! Listen to an interview about  "Brew at the Zoo."  It is coming up this this weekend at the Living Desert, there is a bird watching bus tour on Friday that you can still get tickets too and there will be some red hot dancing coming up, too. http://ow.ly/aBrHe

One of my clients asked a question:

One of my clients asked a question: “How can I quickly post to my social media pages, when I make a change to my website (homepage)?” The question intrigued me and the service provided by CoachellaValleyFun.com may fill my need for self-promotion. Given that I am selling a service that helps people manage their social media presence, I began my quest for a solution. http://ow.ly/auZQk

Blogging Preserves Memory

One of my clients gave me a stack of information about memory, as in, how to preserve it. In one of those publications the point was made that maintaining social activity was one of many things one could do to keep the gray matter working well. This leads right into how computers have made so much socializing (albeit virtually) so much more possible.

To be continued....

So, it took me six days to find my way back to this topic. In the interim, I searched a bit for the proper title of this post, to allay fears of potential copyright violation. I've found that the phrase "Cognitive Impairment Is Not Inevitable" returns many results, so perhaps there is no problem with using this phrase as a title. That premise notwithstanding, I've already named this post more succinctly.

On with the show; there is some concern regarding the topic of cognitive impairment and I'm told that "mild cognitive impairment" is a phrase commonly used to describe elderly people during assessment. They are assessed as a part of the standard operating procedure of elder housing communities, whether that means independent, assisted living, or nursing homes or memory care communities. The point being that this impairment is pretty commonplace among the elderly and the premise of this article is that computer use can slow or perhaps reduce that deficiency. Much more research is in order, as usual, and this author intends to study the subject further, before posting much more about it.

Let me just say this. I am very interested in finding funding for research in this area. I would like to have the opportunity to work with people in a nearly completely uncontrolled study, to find if the use of computers and especially the use of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, and any other "scrap booking" types of activity on computers will help to preserve memories, or even be the impetus for bringing memories to the surface for preservation.

At the risk of obviousness, allow me to point out the double-entendre here. A blog (the noun) might be a readily available place for some memory-rich person to share their experience with the world, while at the same time, blogging (the verb) might the the very activity that helps that same person to not lose the memories they have available to share with us. OK, so, blogging preserves memory and memories, the memory of the writer and their memories for the reader.

Recently, I met a lady named Blanche. My friend, Gene Shaw, told me that this lady's family moved to a different country each time a new child was added to the brood. Wouldn't you love to hear about that experience? I seriously want to know what it was like for a child to grow up in many different cultures. With some luck, I'll have a chance to chat with this lady again, and I'll ask her a few more questions. One of those questions will be: "Would you be willing to spend some time with me, so I can write down some of the memories you have about your childhood experiences?" If I get that chance, this blog will take a turn, for sure.

Until then, think of who you may know that should get on board with blogging. If you need any help getting started, or getting them started, look me up and ask me for help.

Brian Rouley
MouseHelp at Rouzell

Best Movie - Backup

Has it really been 3 months since my last rant about the importance of backup? Somebody is surely slipping. Be sure to read to the end on this one, as we put in a plug for a service you all should consider. It's personal.

Watching CBS Sunday Morning, old Charley narrates a bit of history about the Oscar Winning Movie (the first Best Picture Oscar), "Wings".

Having just tweeted this, for the purpose of citation, now I see I also get to provide a short link URL for you here: http://bit.ly/z9k3gr
Scroll to the end of page one for the problem (possible data loss).

My Tweet:
Now reading :  Remembering "Wings," the 1st Best Picture : http://bit.ly/z9k3gr via @CBSNews - Best illustration of the importance of backup!

That's 140 characters - count 'em, if you must. Word will do this for you. Click the Review tab, then in the Proofing group, choose Word Count. There's a free lesson on MS Word for you - but it took me right off topic. Yes, this is another article about backup.

Near the end of the segment on the "Wings" movie, the discussion turns to finding the best copy of the movie. The studio searched everywhere for a good copy, because the one they had was deteriorating as "nitrate stock" film does. Use that link above and scroll to page two of the story to find the punch line.

Or, don't - here it is. They (the studio) had made a backup copy of the film in the 1950's. Do we really need to continue? Well, maybe we do.

Now I want to see that movie. But what I want more than that, for you, my dear reader, is to know that you have the foresight of a movie studio and you are backing up your precious data. Today, that may include video footage, music, words (a precious script, perhaps) and your memories in photographs. All of that data is analogous to the material that goes into making a great film. It also makes up the story of your life.

Wait, there's more! You say you have photos, films, music, and material that is not in digital format on your computer? Eeeyikes! How will you preserve that? The most obvious solution; find someone who can do that conversion for you. My recommendation, Heirloom Productions and Gene Shaw. You could look it up, but here it is, the easy way: http://goo.gl/pF5uh


How do we get those short links? That's a topic for another post. Keep coming back for more - right after you run your next data backup.

Brian Rouley
Rouzell Enterprises, Inc.
Mousehelp at Rouzell dot com.

Stumble Upon Stuff v.1

That version number suggests this won't be a stand-alone entry. Today, while looking for a domain name that suggests the idea of keeping business local (that's a topic for a whole other rant), I came upon a backlinks analysis tool. You can find it here: http://www.dirgio.com/ba/ - and if you enter your domain name, you'll find which sites link back to your domain. Cool, huh?

Well, that's nowhere near the punch line. Wait for it! Wait for it....

One site that links back to rouzell.com is: http://www.reocities.com/Augusta/8928/ This is a website I created way back when, like around 1996 or 1997, It was updated a few times, like when our beloved Champagne died and I created a digital memorial to her life and times. She was a real beauty! But, that's not the punch line.

ReoCities turns out to be the Phoenix of GeoCities, an early "do-it-yourself" website creation website that allowed you to put together a site using some pretty basic file transfer utilities. It was pretty slick for the time and I thought it was a good idea to create these neighborhoods, or cities, and you could choose where your website would be listed. I chose Augusta, based on my passion for golf at that time. GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo!, who then shut down the site (for reasons I can only assume had to do with a lack of revenue - so you have to wonder why they bought it in the first place!) and if you were unfortunate enough to have spent any time on your creations there, you were about to be left high and dry by the then almighty, Yahoo! Enter ReoCities. Just one letter away from the aforementioned GeoCities, created specifically for the purpose of collecting and redeploying most of the data comprising GeoCities.

Go ahead and type in reocities.com and read all about it. When you get to the end of the story, click the last link on the right. Where it says, "madebyabi" and read some of that stuff. This guy is a "GeekJock", self-proclaimed and he freely offers links back to his sites, his email, etc. I dropped him a line to thank him for his efforts to help transition geo to reo in the cities resurrection.

OK, there's no punch line. This was just another example of random ramblings about how one thing leads to another and the path is as much fun as the destination. In the end, I relived a bit of history and found a new online resource for cool things done solely for the purpose of just being good, I guess. Also, I'm following Abi Noda on Twitter now, just to see what he is up to lately.

This post will find a short link and introduction on Twitter in a few minutes. For now, this is all I have to say. Here's hoping you found this enlightening or at least somewhat entertaining. I know I did.