Working on total cares site for some reason the keywords lancaster homecare has dropped from position 1 > 46 !! and the keywords morecambe homecare has gone up from 46 > 1 ?? now thats odd – watching the google and its strange behaviors..
So thats my next goal is to work out how the hell the search engines are working …
We held this months lancaster linux user group meeting on the 2nd wednesday of the month this time to fit in with everyones busy schedules! We havent had a meeting for a few months because we have all been to busy hence the change to the second week! Quite a good turn out so thanks to everyome who turned up! Dave brought his open moko and give us a demo of the new OS he had installed which was pretty slick – he connected it to his laptop and updated the phone using wireless from his laptop which worked nicely then he can install the network app and install the updates and proggies straight from the phone 
nice bit of kit
We talked about installing multiple operating systems on x86 hardware – making it triple boot with linux / mac / windows
We also discussed various laptops – netbooks and using external devices on the units such as external monitors and keyboards etc.
We also talked about video software and capturing video and audio – i mentioned zoneminder which is a opensource Linux video camera security and surveillance solution. Very mature product – with online viewing of cctv
I took a look at a toshiba laptop and used the hotkeys – shift and escape to change the boot order in the bios and kicked of a fedora install – i had to leave before the install finished so ill update the blog to let you know if the install finished ok and the laptop works right!!
we also had a long conversation regarding building web pages and uploading them using a ftp client – we talked about using kompozer aka NVU – cross platform software which can get you bulding web pages in minutes take a look here after the site is finished if you can use various ftp clients I use gftp as its nice and easy and very robust take a look here both items should be installable by apt so i would type apt-get install kompozer gftp – this should install both apps for you
The linux meetings are held at the brittania pub on ulswater road lancaster on the first wednesday of every month at around 8pm – I would suggest adding yourself to the lug mailing list as some months we may change it to the second wednesday of the month if everyone cant make the first!!!!
Please feel free to come along and talk – newbies welcome!! we cover all areas – linux / mac / windows – servers – laptops – workstations – mobile phones!!! come along and join in – good beer & free wifi!!!!!
Recently my SEO work has overtaken my computer consulting which I cant really grumble about considering I dont have to leave my chair to work!! Yes I do have some techniques i dont want to give away to some of my blog followers but I dont mind sharing my reporting software!! I use a website ranking software called Advanced Web Ranking which is top notch for reporting and is cross platform which is awesome – so you can setup this software on your apple mac – linux box or windows platform and your away!! I have installed this on a linux box and on a apple mac and it was a breeze – applied for a trial licence which i got back the key prompt I then added my first site and got the software to import my keywords in from the site so i didnt have to type it all again which is very handy!! I then moved on to pick which search engines i wanted it to test my keywords on, you can update the search engines every now and then but i know which search engines im interested in 
so i picked for a quick report google UK, yahoo UK, msn UK for a fast report – on bigger reports i selected ask UK and a few other big UK search angines AOL etc.. just go make yourself a nice cup of coffee ..
The software then looks at the search engines you picked and submits the keywords you have in your site or what keywords you specify the process can take up to a hour deending on internet speed and keywords and search engines you picked. I think its better to pick the UK sites if you are interested in the UK audience and US if you want to extend to .com. After the campaign finishes you can get the software to make specific reports which can be set in the software it will give you your positions for the keywords in the specific search engines. One of my keyword searches was lancaster computers which i was happy to see i am number one in google Uk and google.com, some my other keywords which are not so hot I can work on and then wait till my report re-generates next month to see if my technique has moved up the search engine.
One of the handy things about the software for my company is that my SEO is always ongoing so im always working on search engines and source code for the different sites – the reporting software is just so easy – you can set it up so automatically run at a certain time of day / month etc and then you can get the software to automatically send the reports by email to the client with a specific set of rules on the report also a big bonus it will attach your company logo just giving it that finishing touch !
Ive tested other reporting software on linux and apple mac’s but this is by far the best software i have found – when i first got the software one of the features I wanted was a submit facility which i noticed this had, when i came to submit i just got a list of search engines to submit to but I expected a auto submit – but this is just lazy and not really a good way of doing the job – I now submit manually using the list in the software which is very good and proved and tested in various industries in the area, some of the industries are computers , home care , security health , home improvement, plasterers – all these companies are number one in google and other good search engines – they basically have gone from no activity to be very active sites.
10 / 10 for this software i just need to play with the advanced link manager to see what this can do to get even more results!!! I see the software comes in three different price ranges starting at $99 which is a good price for the tool you are getting – Lancaster computers fully recommends you give this a trial if you are serious about web results and getting your sites to the top of the search engines
screen shots
http://wayneward.co.uk/pics/awr_screen_shots/main_window.png
http://wayneward.co.uk/pics/awr_screen_shots/keywords.png
http://wayneward.co.uk/pics/awr_screen_shots/search_engines.png
Some of the other awr features I’m going to look at over the next week which sound cool are the keyword research tool as I’ve been using a few other techniques to carry out this operation which can be a bit painful plus I noticed wordtracker plugin to track keyword relevance which sounds handy and is a free service.. I see the project manager is only available in the pro version which would make the useage of the software easier if you are a bigger outfit. Im also looking at the competing site feature which will be handy to see if any other computer outfits can touch me in the area on the web optimisation side! which i doubt it unless they go sponsored ha ha!! so many other features to get my head around in this software package – what a great bit of kit – just ask any of my clients about my SEO im getting results you wouldnt believe – today i got another call from W & J Plasterers got a massive contract in from liverpool from lancaster computers SEO – Please feel free to contact us if you need your site finding in the search engines – as you can see we use all the finest tools and AWR is one of our gems
http://www.lancastercomputers.co.uk
You can download a 30 days trial of the web site ranking software and get more information about it from their website.
