Lloyd Hester

Month: November 2009

  • Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating Yum Yum!

    Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating Yum Yum!

    I have set up a number of websites recently and launched them onto the world… 🙂

    Proof that using the keywords in the domain name can make a huge difference is born out by several of them. www.BaliTradeDirectory.com has been online a couple of weeks and already number one for the term “Bali trade directory” and is number one for “trade directory bali” . (without quotes)

    I have done very little to promote it other than ping the site and add a few backlinks. These are brand new domains.

    Now we have to start work on the major keyword phrases like clothing manufacturers bali and Bali Silver but I just wanted to show you that there is no doubt that this strategy works.

    If you check you will also see that 7 pages have been indexed too. I just love the simplicity and power that wordpress brings to the table for mere mortals and technophobes like me.

    I have had the same result for www.GiliIslandsTravel.com another brand new site at the top of google with 7 or 8 pages already indexed.

    How is that for proof?

    An update: 21st December 2009 the Gili Island travel website is now number 2 for the main keyword phrase of Gili Islands.

  • My Boomerang Won’t Come Back

    My Boomerang Won’t Come Back

    As A Young boy I spent many happy hours playing on my grandmothers gramaphone.

    She had a great collection of records that have stayed with me all my life.

    My sister recently sent me a link she had found on your tube, to one of them that I used to sing all the time. It is called my boomerang wont come back..

    It was written and sung by an English comedian called Charlie Drake.

    Although it is a really silly song there is a lesson in it that really sums up the difference between success and failure.

    The song is about this boy called Mack being kicked out of his village because of his failure to get his boomerang to come back. 

    My boomerang won’t come back,
    I’ve waved the thing all over the place,
    Practised till I was black in the face,
    I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
    My boomerang won’t come back.

    If this song is not about taking action I dont know what is.

    If you want your boomerang to come back then first you got to thow it!

    How many times have I actually spent so much time waving my boomerang about and not actually throwing it.

    Call it procrastination, paralysis by analsys or what ever you like, but unless you throw your boomerang it will never come back.

    Take action and things start to happen.
    Take MASSIVE action and things will start to fly

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  • New Theme – I hope you like it?

    New Theme – I hope you like it?

    Well it took a while longer to get this theme designed but it is done now. I hope you like it.

    I have decided that I am going to add a lot of the seo training as well as tips and tricks on here as well as my ramblings and witty prose.

    It was going to all be on my new website  which is under development and will be announced soon.

    So not only do we have a new theme, with a better security system and an automated backup, you will also be getting much more information and help to get your pages ranked.

    So watch this space and come back soon.

  • Temporary Theme – Hit by a Hacker

    Temporary Theme – Hit by a Hacker

    Well, Can you believe it. I was hacked. Now I know why they call it hacked.. Cos I was sure hacked off.

    They actually hit two of my sites and I can believe that they managed to get in. Or, more importantly why. These are obviously skilled individuals with a talent, why waste their time hitting me when they could actually do something useful and earn money or something like that?

    It is beyond me.

    Apparently, they got in through my theme somehow.

    Anyway, I will generate a new one and get it up as soon as possible as this one is a bit bright 🙂

    I actually setup the backup for my site but it had not been activated. OOPS.. Anyway, it is all working now so hopefully I will be all safe and secure..

    lets see eh?