http://vincesamios.com Internet Marketing and SEO Consultant - From the Sky to the Earth and the Ether of the Web Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:08:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By popular request, my thoughts about SEO in 2012. Social Media becomes SEO I usually mull over posts like this for a few days adding and removing pieces, reshuffling etc. This particular post has been in draft since about christmas - The below "Social Media becomes SEO" section was written prior to ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/seo-guide-for-2012 [caption id="attachment_847" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Not the actual High Speed 2 Train AFAIK."][/caption]The new proposed "High Speed 2" UK High Speed Train Network will cost an estimated £89.5 Million per mile of new track - with a total of 335 miles in the completed High Speed 2 rail network. Another ... http://vincesamios.com/technology/high-speed-2-uks-high-speed-train-network The most unfortunate thing about SEO is that it is unpredictable, fickle and frustrating as hell... First time around not everyone will have a good experience. Their taste for SEO will bitter and, understandably, they swear off SEO forever. SEO can also take one heck of a long time, with ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/importance-of-maintaining-seo-campaigns There is a youtube channel I think you should know about - its called "Walk Off The Earth" and I have to say they have entertaining with music down. Its a small group of young and talented Canadians with guitars, bongo's, maracas etc. I was introduced to "walk off the earth" ... http://vincesamios.com/music/walk-off-the-earth-youtube-channel My seeds are on order for my 2012 Garden - the common theme is unusual varieties of common vegetables with intense flavours. Some of the star choices are the penis chili (aka Peter Pepper) which literally looks like a little johnson, chinese raddish (Daikon) for my chinese business partner since they ... http://vincesamios.com/gardening/2012s-garden-from-seed After the recent decommissioning of yahoo site explorer, alternatives need to be found so that we can track our own backlinks, and spy on competitors backlinks. Below is a short list of SEO Tools which can, together, provide a somewhat viable alternative to yahoo site explorer. Bing Webmaster Tools Frankly I haven't used ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/link-tracking-seo-tools-yahoo-site-explorer-alternatives This is how you hand pollinate a Phalaenopsis Orchid At the front of the flower there is something called the Anther Cap which sits on the top of the column and which contains the pollinia. We can pop it off with a wooden skewer, and it sticks nicely so you won't ... http://vincesamios.com/gardening/how-to-pollinate-orchids-phalaenopsis-orchid Buckminster Fuller described himself as a Comprehensive Anticapitory Design Scientist - In the 70's Buckminster Fuller was working towards abundance rather than scarcity on the basis of more efficient use of resources. In 1933 Buckminster Fuller designed a car called the "Dymaxion" car which had an astounding fuel efficient (for the ... http://vincesamios.com/interesting-things/buckminster-fuller-everything-i-know Possibly my favourite restaurant within driving distance, The Inn at Grinshill has both bar seating and a separate restaurant. The bar, with its own menu, has a traditional pub feel with open fire. The restaurant has a more contemporary setting with a centrally located grand piano and an open kitchen ... http://vincesamios.com/food-and-dining/the-inn-at-grinshill-review 1. Sunrise Alarm Clock - SRS260 I'm really not a morning person, and I find winter in Europe very difficult to deal with. If I wake up to an alarm clock I feel I've been shocked into the world, and I remain tired for the rest of the day. I don't ... http://vincesamios.com/technology/my-top-6-favourite-gadgets 5. TED Mobile I'm a big fan of the TED talks, and TED Mobile makes an appearance on an almost religious basis for a regular dose of intelligence. Its a fairly simple app with the latest talks easily available. 4. TVCatchup I can't remember the last time I turned my TV - with ... http://vincesamios.com/technology/my-5-favourite-iphone-apps This post is inspired by a recent experience with an interesting family. Daddy earned the money, and his generosity created monsters. Those monsters put the whole family in a situation that could result in criminal convictions and financial losses through litigation, because of a false self-image, over-inflated egos and a ... http://vincesamios.com/life/the-importance-of-earning-your-own-way The standard investment recommendation for any young couple is to buy their own home. I respect the reasons, and I understand the comfort factor, but I don't think financial intelligence will ever allow me to own my own home. I thought I’d make this more of a “practical” blog post on ... http://vincesamios.com/personal-finance/why-i-may-never-own-my-own-home I’ve payed a lot of tax recently, and in the past when my wife and I could have used help from “the system” (after Mark Attwood fucked me over), we were been denied because my English wife is married to me, an Australian… so when it comes to the subject ... http://vincesamios.com/life/uk-strikes-about-pensions-pay I remember this video from back around election time and just stumbled across it again today - absolutely fantastic and well worth posting. http://vincesamios.com/life/aussie-politics-rap-battle I recently posted a question to Matt Cutts regarding the no-follow tag: “Do you feel that the widespread and blanket use of nofollow tags is devaluing Google's search algorithms? Examples such as Wikipedia, where ALL external links are nofollow. Does Wikipedia mean nothing to Google's algorithms?” Let's break Matt’s answer down a ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/matt-cutts-misses-the-point News hit today that 36 minutes of the new Harry Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the deathly hallows” was leaked. When I first heard the news I turned to my wife (Also an Internet Marketer) and said “I bet it’s the first bit of the movie, and I bet its ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/leaked-harry-potter-marketing-stunt Vince's Links are a list of places where you can get links for free - I sent the first package out not long ago but I didn't blog about it - since the response has been good I've sent out a second package and this time I'm blogging about it. It ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/vinces-links-second-package A very close friend became an auntie today – but something she said got me thinking. And its no isolated case – everybody seems to forget the mechanics behind having children. “Little William was born today – Mother and Child are doing well” – what about bloody dad? Dad’s probably got a burst ... http://vincesamios.com/life/child-birth-%e2%80%93-poor-dad I wrote recently (just 1 month and 1 week ago) about some inspirational SEO results and I thought I would provide an update. To refresh your memory, I was looking at my ranking for a single word keyword with over 1000 daily searches. Heres the Market Samurai Keyword Research ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/inspirational-seo-results-update Looking into an online email list manager, which allowed me to upload an existing email list, I think my chosen service will be “Constant Contact” The unpublished price list above 25,000 email addresses goes like this: 25,001 to 50,000 at an additional $100 per 25,000 records 25,000 increments to 150,000 and then 50,000 ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/constant-contact-%e2%80%93-save-300-on-setup Following on from my post Positively Ignorant, today I write another post regarding positivity, however this time I’m talking about the positive use of negativity. I worked for a while within a business that had a heavily positive culture. The business was all about “Harmony” and “bigging each other up” etc. ... http://vincesamios.com/life/positively-negative I once cycled as fast as I could... into a brick wall... I must have been about 15, and "as fast as I could" was pretty bloody fast... Especially since I was also cycling down hill... And no - it wasn't a mistake. I cycled directly towards the brick wall ... http://vincesamios.com/life/the-brick-wall-and-i Hello Hello SWBN listeners. (And for non-listeners, check out the interview here at the secret womens business network) Here is a list of links to things we talked about Inlinks Passive Income Strategy InLinks Passive Income Strategy Top 5 Inlinks Categories InLinks Passive Income Strategy Q&A Other Stuff Twitter and Spam - The Oxymoron Ask Vince Anything The Real Guide ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/vince-samios-interview-on-swbn Following on from the passive income strategy, I promised to post up the most profitable niches for inLinks sales. Here are the top 5 1. Loans/Lending 2. Internet/Internet Marketing 3. Business 4. Property/Real Estate 5. Health and Sports I also thought I would post up a screen capture of my favorite thing to wake up to... link ... http://vincesamios.com/internetmarketing/top-5-inlinks-categories