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OK, so I decided to try something new…

Going without the social sites is one thing.. I can probably get on easily without that, but messenger is quite a big chunk of what I do… so we will have to see.

Luckily this is only for two weeks. After the two weeks I will make a video again that will give some feedback on what I experienced bu making this change.

(This is day one, and I already miss my online friends)

OK, as from this point I’m calling it out of fashion to use “SEO” as a buzz-word. (I know it should have been called long ago, but hey, we all got distracted by “Web 2.0″) So can we please stop throwing it around like its.. well.. going out of fashion.

The reason that I’m bringing this up is because this is something I see quite often with clients who don’t have a clue about the Internet and doesn’t like new design trends and as a result keep the companies they represent in the dark ages.

Wait, let me give you some background information about myself. I started out in the industry as a SEO consultant for a online casino company. So for the 1st 6 months of my web career, I did everything in my power to rank high, and let me tell you the main thing I’ve learned:

Good content structured in a proper HTML document (which is W3C compliant) will do wonders in search engines.

We easily forget that even though we would like our sites to rank well in search engines, the visitors to our site is real people like you and me, and the chance of them returning is a lot better if the site contains good copy that wasn’t raped with bold and italics and id the site was esthetically pleasing… and this is something that gets dumped daily as a result of “SEO”.

I want to give you real world examples.. but I like my job I’m sure that if you have been in this industry for longer than a year you will have some examples of your own…