blog till you drop!
A cocktail of advertising, social media, and technology
Blogging used to be so easy…
Sep 23rd
… and I am ready for new challenges! In other words, there will be a lot of changes on this site over the coming month weeks.
It amazing to see how things have changed over the last couple of years… blogging was something I did in my spare time and I never really cared about rankings or traffic. And then someone introduced me to a tool that has made me realise that this very blog needs a lot of work!
Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
Website grader is dead easy to use – just enter your URL and you’ll get a full report of your blog emailed over within 10 minutes!
Because I am (sadly) a bit of a perfectionist, I’ve decided to take the plunge and self-host my blog as I really need to do something about my non-existent metadata (blame wordpress)!
Website Grader is definitely worth a try… you might learn a thing or two 
Remember your very first time online?
Aug 6th
Do you remember your first computer? I first laid my hands on a keyboard aged 12… We owned a Commodore 64 at a time where computers were luxury items…
Our faithful Commodore had a black and white screen, a keyboard without accents (not convenient when you’re trying to type something in French), a pre-historic version of Word, as well as the computer game Pac Man with funky joysticks!
Now, do you remember the first time you went online?
I think I first went online circa 1996… The Commodore had sadly passed away and we had moved onto a much better (colour) machine!
We had a PAYG (pay as you go) AOL dial-up connection which was terribly expensive and slow! I don’t remember browsing the net but the home page was an AOL chatroom and I used to spend ages chatting to some English and Italian dudes to improve my linguistic skills. I would never have thought back then that I would play with the Internet for a living!
We’re always talking about new technologies, but I’d like to hear about your computer and Internet stories from back in the day… Over to you guys!
Idea for this post courtesy of The Next Web