Geoff Jones

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Nevada Sports and Blogging does work

Sixteen days ago I did a blog post on the Nevada Sports, Les Gets website. A standard (ie poor) Flash jobbie. Prior to my previous post, Nevada Sports didn’t even appear in Google when you entered in Ski Hire or Snowboard hire with Les Gets. Now nick reports:-

[17:29] Nick: have you seen that page you did for nevada?
[17:29] Nick: ski hire les gets – its number 3
[17:29] Nick: snowboard hire les gets – no 1
[17:30] Nick: nevada sports les gets – 2 after his own site
[17:31] Nick: nevada les gets – your no1

Pretty amazing eh! Who needs adwords when even a lowly blogger like myself can zoom sites up the ratings. As for people who design their homepage in Flash IMHO they want their heads examined.

Oh and Nevada Sports in Les Gets are also brilliant for mountain bikes in the summer, Poor Thierry is up till 2 in the morning fixing the damage wrought by the downhill cycling maniacs.

Ehthics – I’m not connected or getting paid by Nevada except for the normal fizzy cider – Thierry gives out to his best customers.

Reboot8

Just booked for Thomas’s excellent conference Reboot8 in Copenhagen on the 1st/2nd June. Hopefully, it will be as good or even better than last years. Have decided to stay on for a couple of days after the event so I can get in some walking or cycling.

Children and Life

Another excellent article about Myspace here by Tom Foremski with a copy of this delightful poem, which I found very appealing as a father of three great kids.

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”

from Lebanese writer K. Gibran

Micro Persuasion: Another Company Goes Blog Only

Micro Persuasion: Another Company Goes Blog Only
I’m sure Ellee will be delighted to read this. The comments are particularly interesting

“Idea Grove is designing Web sites based on Blogger and an open source platform, with content included, for $7,500. Before we started using blog software, our Web sites started at $15,000. So it’s cool stuff.”

Blimey charging £5000 for free software and some content – sounds like the makings of a good business to me. OK must get back to setting up my new wordpress blog on www.geoffjones.net