Very nice summation of how to make easy to read emails. (Via Alex)

I can also imagine that your adventures will have widened considerably since we last talked.

Catch up soon.

Jonathan

Being rich does not have to mean living an extravagent lifestyle and in fact, most people who live this kind of lifestyle are usually not rich or wealthy at all … they’re usually “bragging” about what they don’t have and paying through the nose for it with the banks money.
There is also a distinct difference between being wealthy and being rich. Rich is about having money, wealth is all encompassing - money, happiness (in all areas of life including relationships), health and above all, peace.

So long as we reduce wealth to being about “loads of money” we will never achieve it because there will always be something lacking.

Trish

@Peter, I agree with you. It can sometimes be a little time consuming to write unique articles. I don’t always find it easy especially when I have a lot of client work on. It’s worth it in the end though and it builds more credibility.

Thank you for posting such a great informative article!
I recently wrote a few articles on the topic which compliments what you said.

My own website is a combination between a traditional website and a blog - some have called it a slog (site blog).
The blogging part do have its advantages as it’s very easy and you can add a post very quickly. So much faster than creating pages and then having to upload it.

regards
Marion

For many small businesses, a blog is all that is needed, but their are still some people who prefer to have a static site too and that’s fine so long as their site is being updated some how.

All the best,

Trish

If I find out any different, I’ll be sure to update you, but I really think you’re safe with the trailing slash.

Trish

Sorry about the delay in replying … I wanted to let you know that if you want an easier way to do it and make money in the process, check out Jimmy D Brown’s Small Reports Fortune at http://www.smallreportsfortune.com

All the best,

Trish

I’ve emailed you direct.

The sad thing is, you could tell some people until you’re blue in the face, if it’s all they know, they just go with it … follow the crowd.

I’m familiar with the setup with the trailing slash but never come across the other. Either way, I’m not aware that it affects SEO. The important thing is to make it easy for the search engine spiders to find your content.

Best,

Trish

Jeremy Reeves http://www.controlbeatingcopy.com

I stumble over you on YouTube and I was taken by your straight talk, no bull approach to blogging. And that is exactly what I was looking for.

I have a particular problem. I got a website built for me by a web designer. Now that it is finished I am at a lost as to how to upload news items, articles and videos to the web pages. I have heard of WordPress and my question is how I adopt WordPress to my website. I downloaded WordPress and even went as far as to paste some article on the post or write page. Now how do I get something from WordPress to publish on my website? I do not want to stay in WordPress blog page, I want to use WordPress as a vehicle to post articles to http://www.ghanascope.net and I don’t know how to do it. I hope you could help me.

Sincerely,

Eric

My biggest stopping point is time management crossed with book structure. I’ve published dozens of articles and can easily do so, however the thought of slapping together a book feels daunting.

I believe its because I often cut to the chase and leave out the “filler” when I write.

Thanks again, its left me with more to ponder on

The one thing about John Reese is that he’s no copycat! He comes up with his own unique idea and … “he’ll be back!” With something new and unique that is.

You have some great items on your site and I have to say, I used to work for an insurance company and they used to give us items of their promo products. I left the company 7 years ago and we are still using some of the products they gave us.

They must have used a company like yours!! Quality products!

I don’t promote other people’s products in my comments, but to my readers, this site is worth checking out, particularly if you’re going to be doing the Christmas gifts promotion: http://www.promoproductsolutions.com

All the best Vincent,

Trish

There are still occasions when you might use a static website such as a salespage, and, some people just prefer to have a static website and a blog in the subdirectory. If you know how to marketing a website, then this is an okay option but for most service professionals a blog is all they need.

Hope this helps.

It really is a matter of personal choice if you use tools such as 3 way links to build your business, but my personal view is that natural linkbuilding is a longer term strategy and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get me penalised by the search engines.

Often they can do it without having the keyphrase in their title. And it does make it difficult to compete.

But as you are saying - Google quickly catches onto these schemes and you could be penalized. It’s a shame. I get plenty of inbound links. The trouble is, most of them are worthless as a lot of folk don’t use keywords in the links. Most just link to my name, which isn’t much use.

I like how they created a demo blog to explain in pictures. Very good.

In fact, on two occasions, I have had need to call them about my error with registering the wrong domain name and with no questions asked, they gave me a refund.

I don’t recommend GoDaddy’s hosting but I’m okay with recommending their domain registration service.

That said, I’m always open to other people’s recommendations though so thanks!

Trish

I recommend: http://www.site5.com

I have my sites with them for more than 7 years now, never any kind of problem and always fast, friendly, expertise costumer service.

I read somewhere only days ago that Google have officially declared that they are not giving much notice to reciprocal linking or directory submissions, something that I’m certain they encouraged in the past. As far as I can see, they want “natural” link building as much as possible.

I’m happy with it being that way though because in today’s blogosphere, quality content get’s noticed so all those adsense sites that are there purely to make money will lose their value.

All the best Richard,

Trish

I really do dislike putting up my webpages with FP though so perhaps I ought to give dreamweaver another try.

Thanks for the post,

Trish

Thanks for the great tip … I hadn’t realised that about the w3c complience.

Appreciate you,

trish

Great tip! But keep in mind that if you use the element, without the span opening element, your code will no longer validate to current w3c web standards. However, there is another easy fix that is valid.

Use: Tag: li style=”border-bottom:10px”> Something “Close Li Element.

or, you can add the above command to your CSS file…hope this helps somebody.

Use: Something

or, you can add the above command to your CSS file…hope this helps somebody.

I totally agree with your comment about incorporating search engine optimiztion during the development process of building a site. I think people think you’re arrogant when you tell them that you have to be involved during the development phase because all they can see is the “nice looking site.” But, as you and I know, “nice looking sites” don’t necessarily make money.

The sad thing is, once the website developer has done his fancy stuff, it’s usually too late to incorporate SEO properly without diggin up some of the design foundation.

Thanks for the valuable input Sam,

Trish

Great blog. I really enjoyed it.

There are many ways for search engines to spider your web site now days, with very advanced scripting. As far as you handing anything to them on a platter you may have, if they also scan for keywords for things like 3-way linking, etc. We may never know for sure…but I bet they do scan in that method also.

Awesome working with you Trish, you are such a knowledgeable person!

RJ Levesque, Jr.
Dream Weaver Creations
http://www.dreamwc.com

We’re still working on the site on the fly!

Trish

I think that’s why I’d prefer to go for the paid directories but keep a lookout, I have a post coming up on Google devaluing DMOZ and Yahoo links. Interesting …

Trish

Great acknowlegement of oneself. I stumbled upon your site and I am so glad I did. I know what I want ,but getting there; that is the problem. I will have to do some more research on how to achieve my passion successfully.Thanks again for such an eye opener.

Circle Links weren’t limited to 3 one way links.

You could have 4, 5, 9..25 etc. sites participating in this ONE Way Links system.

Google picked up on that years ago and wrote an algorithm to sniff these groups out.

The only difference I see here is that, 3waylinks.net limits the one way links to 3.

It just a mini version of the now defunked in Google’s eyes…Circle Links system.

So, since Google’s spiders where programmed eons ago to seek out participates of Circle Links, I’m sure the bots can still trip over this mini version trend of one way links.

Excellent work.

Daves last blog post..BBQ pulled pork.

I would prefer that the video spanned both columns … we’ll see.

Thanks for the comment.

Trish

Best of luck on your final decision.

rachels last blog post..X Factor 2008 - Final 12 Contestants

I think it was Zig Ziglar I first heard talk about “not subscribing to recession” and I’ve lived by it ever since.

Trish