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Getting Your Content Noticed

Getting Your Content Noticed

So you have written the most amazing article, checked the spelling and grammar, SEO’ed the life out of it to the best of your ability and now it’s time to publish your masterpiece. That’s the easy part over, the hard part now begins. There is no point in you writing hundreds of articles, designing the best looking blog and getting an SEO professional to tweak your site, if nobody is going to read your content. This is my guide to getting your content noticed.

Get Your Content Noticed

We always talk about SEO and SMM as two of the most fundamental methods when ensuring your blog and it’s content is ranked, however, with Google squeezing the life out of SEO techniques, it is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Obviously with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) you tweak the mechanics of the site, were as, SMM (Social Media Marketing) is advertising your blog and content using your social media sites. Of course this can have it’s disadvantages in the beginning stages of your blog.

Not Just Social Media Sites.

When you publish an article and then start sending links out via your social media, this is only going to bring in traffic, providing you have a lot of subscribers. If you only have a hand full of subscribers or followers, than that is the only traffic you are going to attract to your blog. Every time you publish, you are going to be reaching the same people all the time, which is fine, but you also want to attract new readers as often as possible.

There is a way to increase both subscribers and followers to your social networking sites and thus bring in new readers to your blog, it’s almost a case of the chicken and egg, which should come first.

Retweet With Twitter

When you are planning your blogging schedule for each week, you need to make sure, that for at the very least an hour every day, you plan in time to write comments and visit other sites in your genre. It is vital that you interact with the entire community, a community which is never going to visit your blog if they don’t know you’re there.  However, there are rules to this style of self promotion that you must follow in order for it to work.

Rules To Community Building.

First of all be patient, like anything in life, when you are the new boy or girl on the block, it can take a bit of time to be accepted, so be patient.

Try to build up a rapport with the blog or channel owner, again this is something that will take time.

When you leave comments on another persons blog or YouTube Channel, ensure the comments are genuine. Don’t just leave generic comments, actually respond to the topic and have something interesting to write. The more interesting and beneficial your comment is to the topic, the more likely you are to be accepted and also have others visit your blog.

Commenting On Blogs

Never ever leave your URL in the comments section, I know this sounds silly because you want people to visit your blog, but when you leave a comment, your profile for that particular platform will have all the relevant information within it. For example, to leave a comment on a YouTube video, you have to have a Google+ account, when you leave a response, your name will appear at the side or above what you have written and so if others want to know more about you, they will click on your profile link. If it is relevant to the topic, you can name your blog, but don’t over do it, don’t name your blog on every response, this is classed as spam.

Never ever use profanities and always be polite, it is so easy and cowardly to be rude from behind a computer keyboard, from the safety of your own home. Treat people and the community how you want them to treat you and more over, how you would talk to them if you were face to face with them. If you do leave profanities or are rude to other members of the community, you will be blocked and lose potential friends and traffic to your blog.

Conclusion

If you follow this simple guideline, every time you leave a genuinely interesting comment on a blog or video, other members of the community will want to now who you are and if you have your own blog. This is how you gain extra subscribers, readers and above all, friends. However, you must be consistent, there is no point doing this for a week and then not bothering to returning, if you do this, then people will forget about you very quickly and all the work you have done will be for nothing.

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App Developers Warned

App Developers Warned

App developers warned, that is the message from the Office of fair trading and in particular Gaming App Developers. The Office of fair trading have issued a shake up in policy for app developers and have given a two week period for the change to occur. The reason for this shake up in the app developer world is in app purchases and the hidden costs they have been racking up for parents.

Game Developers

Hundreds of parents across the world have been, much to their astonishment, hit with iTunes fees falling into the hundreds of pounds, only to discover that the fee was racked up by their unsuspecting child playing a free game they downloaded form the App Store, be it iTunes, Google Play Store or any other.

In App Purchasing

children and parents have been downloading games from the App store, which are advertised as free, however, with a lot of the games, you can buy add ons, which take real money from your actual bank account or credit card. For example, I play a game called Tapped Out, it is a Simpsons game were you build Springfield and the characters from the hit TV series. Throughout the game you set your charters to work and they will earn money for you, whereby you can buy additional buildings. However, some of the characters and buildings can only be purchased by Doughnuts, but in order to get Doughnuts, you need to spend real money for them. You can earn Doughnuts, but approximately one every blue moon and on average buildings can cost 200 Doughnuts, so impatient idiots such as myself pay for more.

In App Purchases

Because this aspect of the game is not made very clear when purchasing, children are clicking the buy option, not understanding that when they do this, real money is being taken from their parents accounts. Of course the parents have to take some responsibility on this matter and I know what I am talking about, as this very matter happened to me.

My Farmville Nightmare

A few years ago, a game called Farmville, which used to be a Facebook game, was eventually launched on the App store. Again this was a game were you played the part of a farmer and had to build up your farm by purchasing animals. This was a perfect game for kids and I allowed my then 7 year old son to play the game. A week later I noticed that my son had this amazing farm on the iPad and when I checked my iTunes Account, I soon discovered that my account had been charged over £330.

Farmville Nightmare

Obviously I was in shock and didn’t know what to do, however, the only one at fault was me, it was my fault entirely, not my sons nor the game developers. I should have password protected my iTunes account and been watching my son much closer. I did get the money back after I explained to them what had happened and I also admitted that this was my fault. I personally think the admission of guilt helped in getting my money back, however, in my eyes then and now, they did not have to pay me the money back.

Conclusion

Needless to say this has been a widespread problem to which the Office of Fair trading are cracking down and given game developers two weeks to make the matter much more clear on the initial purchase. Once again parents escape responsibility and society is blamed for the mistakes of their children. They are our children and we must as decent parents be accountable for their actions, certainly at least until they are 16, from then on, it is not practical to know their every move. Any way I am not offering parental advice, goodness knows I have made hundreds of mistakes and am in no position what so ever to offer advice.

Top 5 Steam Machines

Steam has grown in the last three or four years exponentially, readying itself to take on the big boys of the console world, Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation and Nintendo's Wii U. As a result of their growth, Steam have started to add a few additions to their already incredibly successful cross platform gaming experience. By allowing other third party vendors to build consoles around Steam, Consoles are piping up everywhere and none more so than the very recent CES 2014. This will allow gamers to purchase a single console and have access to thousands of games, all interconnected to the internet. Although the other consoles offer this similar experience, Steam may just have the edge in a few fundamental areas. After looking around this is my Top 5 Steam Machines that are either currently available or soon to come.

Alienware Steam Machine

I think a lot of people will agree with me in saying that most of the Alienware stuff looks pretty awesome, and with the name Alienware comes the expectation of big performance and high quality materials, needless to say that the same can be said for their Steam Machine. Although Alienware displayed their Steam machine at CES 2014, they held a lot of the specs and pricing close to their chest. A few things that are known is that Alienware Steam Machine will use an Intel processor and Nvidia graphics, as previously mentioned there is no word on pricing but the release date is set for September 2014. The unit itself looks awesome, absolutely typical of Alienware products.  

iBuyPower

iBuyPower is the next Steam Machine on my list, another company showcasing at CES 2014. The thing I love about this unit is the design. I know it is wrong to select a device on design, its all about spec, but this device really looks cool. Round the centre of the box is a bright green light, which you will apparently be able to change via an iOS / Android App, which I am not sure if that means you can change the colour or brightness. The specs for the iBuyPower are a Quad Core Athlon X4 740 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB HDD and a Radeon R7 260X graphics card. The iBuyPower is due to be released in June 2014 and a price tag of £300 has been placed on it.  

Digital Storm Bolt II

The Digital Strom Bolt II is at the very high end of the Steam Machines that I have seen and read about, this will be more aimed at your Pro Gamer. Just looking at the Digital Storm Bolt II and you will instantly know it is a high powered unit and gaming on this machine is going to be an experience. The specs are an Intel Core i7 -4770k processor, Nvidia GTX 780 Ti graphics card, a whopping 16GB RAM and a perfect 128GB SSD HDD combined with another 1TB Hard Drive. Obviously for a high performing system like this, you know the price is going to be high, and so for me you really need to know if you want a Steam Only machine or a big powered PC. U.S price is set at $2,584 and UK price is £1,574. For the Digital Storm Bolt II, there is not much longer to wait as it is available this month, (Jan 2014). 

Valve's Steam Machine

Valve are the company that developed Steam and so this is their very own machine, all the other consoles in this list are third party vendors who have purchased the licence to run Steam on a console. The design of the Valve Steam Machine is very stylish and minimalist, just perfect for fitting in with other entertainment equipment in your living room. The spec for the Valve Steam Machine is not too shabby either, not up with the Digital Storm Bolt II, but never the less and worthy system. You will have the option of Intel's Core i3, i5 or i7 processors and the graphics card will be the Nvidia titan, GTX660, GTX760 or the GTX 780. So as you can see there is a wide choice to chose from.  

Cyberpower PC

The CyberpowerPc at first glance looks a bit like an Xbox, but when you get a closer more detailed look at the system, it really does look very stylish, something that wouldn't look out of place on any Geeks setup. Again the CyberpowerPC is not a high end system in terms of spec, but it is certainly a good choice to dip your toe into the world of Steam if you haven't already. The CyberpowerPC has two models available, so specs for the lower end model are as follows, 8GB DDR3 RAM and 500GB HDD, 3.9GHz dual core AMD processor and 2GB AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card, which will cost you £305 or $499. The higher end model is 8GB DDR3 RAM and 500GB HDD, 3.5GHz Intel Core i3 processor and a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 graphics card, this model will cost £425 or $699. Both models however will not be available until the second half of 2014. 

Conclusion

Revenue From Google Adsense 

I thought as I was going about my daily tasks today, I would try to make a video and hopefully make it appear a bit more casual as opposed to my normal stuffy videos of me stuck in front of my desk, with my computers behind me. As I was talking to my good friend Dave (aka Lack78) last night, I thought about asking you guys, how you have been effected by the new Hummingbird Algorithm from Google and in particular your revenue from Google Adsense 

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SEO can of course be incredibly boring and not to mention complicated, which is the reason there are so many excellent SEO agencies set up for you to employ a professional SEO to finely tune your blog, website or Youtube channel. 

Cloud Storage Nightmares 

The Purpose of this video is to simply give you guys a heads up if you are either in the market for a cloud storage service or in fact you are currently with Just Cloud. By informing you of my experience you can make your own educated decision as to whether or not you want to protect your data or not.

About 18 months ago I signed up to Just Cloud, who also go under the name of JDI Backup Ltd, incidentally, JDI Backup are the parent company and they own Just Cloud, My PC Backup, Zip Cloud and Genie Backup, regardless they all offer the same service, but again just a heads up as they are all run by the same people.

The service I signed up for was an unlimited backup plan that allowed me to register two computers and any external devices that where attached to them computers. Also at the time of me signing up for the account I was allowed to backup any file type. About 3 months into the service Just Cloud changed the agreement, no longer where external devices allowed permitted to be backed up and no longer could you backup video files. In order to do so you had to pay for each service on an annual bases and although for videos files it was only £9.99 per year external devices started at £50 per year per device and more expensive the larger the device.

Although not really happy at the change I still stayed as the value for money was still good. At the beginning of September I received an email from the legal department for Just Cloud explaining to me that my account was to be deleted in 30 days and if I wanted to save my data I had to do so in this time period. The only options available to me where either save my data and leave after the 30 days or upgrade my account to a business account. What happened next is covered in the video. 

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Are You Safe From Your Own Tech?

Hi Guys, I would just like to say how sorry I am that there has been a delay in announcing the winner of the Google Nexus 7. 

The original plan was, just as my family left on holiday at the beginning of August, I announced the details of the giveaway, I had planned on announcing the winner on the 1st of September which would have given me two weeks at the end of August to actually spend time promoting the giveaway and getting as many people as possible involved. Unfortunately when we returned from holiday, my best friend who served in the Army with me told us that his sister was in a critical condition in hospital. This was obviously terrible news and took up quite a bit of my time. 

Just to make matters worse I started experiencing even more problems with my back and so have been told to attend hospital on the 13th of September to prepare for another spinal fusion. On the 13th I am only having some test done and it is normally about two weeks later that I will go under the knife so to speak. 

As a result I have extended the giveaway for 12 days, which will bring the date to Friday the 21st of September 2012. On this day regardless of what happens the winner will be selected and announced. I will upload a video here on YouTube and I will announce it on Techmedia Fusion, Facebook, Twitter and Google+. 

For details on how to enter the giveaway click on the link http://techmediafusion.com/google-nexus-7-giveaway/

Once again I apologise for the the delay however matters where taken out of my control.

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