Tonight Gemma, Bonnie and i have been using a cool website called GrooveShark – its a flash based music streaming website, and you can search for and queue tracks to play.
The speeds are really good, and it seems to find most tracks no matter what the genre. We queued a load to listen to, and one of them was this beauty.
Here are the totally tubular lyrics in case you forgot’em!
For more years than i can remember, i have had I AM THE INTERNET as my blog title. Now i wasn’t being big headed or anything – ok so maybe i was, but let me explain why…
I’ve been using the internet for a modest 12 years or so, and it was something i got into quite fast, and i found that i was quite interested and fairly good at “the internet” – for example i made my first site in dreamweaver when i was 13, not too long after i had started using the net in the first place.
When i was about 15/16 i had used and abused the internet so much, i became some kind of human / google hybrid and i was able to spout website URLs that would provide you with any product or service you required. You name it, i could tell you a website where you could find it.
It got to a level where people would regularly ring me and ask me what that website was that we saw that thing on. So the title I AM THE INTERNET was created.
Many years on, and the internet is what makes up 85% of the work me and Dave do now, and the more i use it – and the tools and applications that you can find on it – the more confused i get! Every time i master something, its updated. Every time i learn how to do something, another way to do it comes out.
I no longer feel comfortable claiming that i am the internet, when there is so much i dont, and will never, know.
So, to tie in with my project to get my blog to number 1 in google for the term olly, i have renamed my blog I AM OLLY.
The end of an era. The start of a new day.
A while back dave and i were speaking about the SEO things we are doing as a business now, and mentioned that it would be funny (and also a bit of an inter-company challenge) to try and each get to the top of google for our names – dave and olly.
We haven’t mentioned it since, but i got thinking about it earlier, and tried to decide what would be the best (and easiest) method of getting my blog to the top of google if someone searched for olly. Anyone who knows anything about SEO knows that in a nutshell, its all about good content and inbound links (ok, lots of other stuff too but these are the only things i am going to take into consideration for this challenge)
I already have good UNIQUE content, so what else? I need links in to this site. But mannnn that would take ages and ages and i really cant be arsed to hand pick them, and i don’t want the cost involved in BUYING links.
Hmm..
Ding!
Introducing – 0lly Approves!
Its basically a free link directory that allows anyone to sign up to it – but i am going to be slightly picky with who i allow access. Simply because i don’t want it to be a general free link directory, we already have one of them! I want it to be a useful, relevant, non spammy directory that will one day hold a bangin pagerank, and be beneficial for all that are on it.
How it helps me, is in order to add your link – you have to add MY link first. And i have got the recip link pointing to the main page, not the directory. I know one way linking is usually preferred, but we haven’t done too badly with our other directory, and thats only ever had recip links added.
So sign up now, and start promoting your site, and helping me get to the top of google!
NB this is for the term olly, not 0lly (with a zero) im already at the top if you spell it with a Zero 🙂
We’re always thinking of new ideas and ways to fill our time (hah, what time?) and we have recently been on another domain name purchasing spree which has lead to me sitting down and installing a few blogs so that we can launch a few new websites.
They are mainly motoring related, and they focus on things such as news, product reviews and online sales for different aspects of the modified and performance car market.
The first is our site that is aimed at beating the credit crunch and showing the pathway to cheap motoring. It will have info on petrol prices, cheap road tax and links to low tax bracket, cheap cars to buy! Plus many other ways to save money on motoring. The site is called Daily Runabout and has only just been started so bear with us while we start the content flowing.
The next site is aimed more at the buying of certain modified and performance car parts. Everything from alloy wheels to bodykits, even bonnet pins all displayed in a logical format that guarantees no more than 3 clicks to find the product you require. There will be news and updates posted on there too so be sure to check up regularly! Modified Parts Trader hopes to help you find cheap car parts and help you modify your car for less!
Our next site is one that is aimed more at the alloy wheel market. Its called Rims4u and was originally (around 2000-2002) an alloy wheel refurb website, but they must of gone bust or something. It is now the source for alloy wheel information. New releases, industry gossip and everything a good rim addict needs to fulfil their needs.
Nearly there, yes – i have been busy!
The next website is the final modified car related one. Its taking the online modified car part scene from a totally different angle. Its an auction powered site that is like a car boot sale but just for bits to mod your motor! Eventually we would like to take the idea to a location one day and actually have a car boot sale with just modified cars with old/spare parts that we all have (and we all have at least a shed full) and get some cash back for that old crap! Modified Car Boot Sale has landed! Bear with us while we finish it off though.
The final site for now is one we have been meaning to set up for a while. 123-reg have been our domain registrar for a very long time. We have had a lot of problems with them over the years and most of these problems have been documented on blogs here there and everywhere. It suddenly dawned on me that these blog posts could warrant there own site, so we made one! 123-reg blog! If you have a 123-reg horror story then please head on over, contact us through the site and we’ll give you access so you can add stuff to your hearts content!
Thats it for now guys, but we have a few more planned soon – one of them is a biggun! Muhaha!