My latest post on RouleyWrites dot com…
http://www.rouleywrites.com/blog/2017617/social-media-for-writers
Sorry it has been so long since I’ve been here. Seems I may need to upgrade to a Business plan so I can monetize my work here! Consideration and deliberation will certainly precede this decision. I’ll write again, soon. I promise.
FITB (Fill In The Blank) – Google is ending support for NPAPI – this includes JAVA and Adobe Flash?
OK, I recently wrote an article detailing the end of support for JAVA in Google Chrome.
http://www.rouzell.net/2015/05/04/do-you-need-java/
Now, I see Google Chrome is reporting that soon support will end for Flash. As often as I see Google reporting Flash has crashed, I’m almost happy with this development. 
How many blog posts start with the words, “By now you’ve heard…”?
It looks like at least one of my accounts has become a target for fraudulent charges. The sinking feeling I have is not for the potential loss of less than twenty dollars for the two charges, but for the loss of time involved in phone calls and other activities I’ll have to suffer through with my bank or banks to clear up this malady. In my business, every hour spent chasing down demons feels like another hundred dollars into the fire. I don’t even get to enjoy the heat.
While I cannot pin this down to the recent hacker activity at Target, I did a search for “CEWCS fraud” to find the entity trying to bill me for $9.84, twice in one account, on Christmas Eve, no less! I found another blogger had posted exactly that same name and transaction amount billed to a card he was sure he had used at the store. That is one long way of saying there are probably many people who will find similar charges on their accounts.
This writer has never been in the “misery loves company” camp. No tidings of comfort or joy are in this holiday season regarding this unpleasant event.
Bah, humbug, indeed!
Check your accounts. Only vigilance will save your money. Your time, however, will be spent.
This morning, there was a message in my inbox from a “local SEO guy” and until I read through to the bottom line, it seemed the content was the work of the sender.
This was not so. The content had been lifted from the page properly cited below. Man, that just seems a little sneaky, slimy to me!
Questions raised by using someone else’s work are something I hope to avoid. Without exception, my blogs are filled with original material, unless I quote someone and then I always try to properly cite the source. Heck, I’ve even written and railed about the need for originality – probably after receiving the same material in three different email messages on the same day!
But, enough about me and my want for others to be creative….
Share the good stuff, yes. And, give me links to the original work, so I can do my own research.
Just be sure to say so up front, so questions won’t be raised about your intentions, your character, etc.
Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229645#ixzz2kRXMtiO4
OK, where were we? Ah, yes, that third way is far more labor intensive and makes far less sense than a cloud based backup plan.
If you came in in the middle of this conversation, scroll down or click here, to see the first part of the article.
The big upside to an external drive is the same as its greatest downside, it’s right there with your computer. On the upside, if your computer crashes, your data is already right there, you only have to plug it into a healthy computer and run the restore process. On the downside, if your computer is destroyed by some natural or unnatural phenomenon, most things nearby are also ruined. Or if your computer is stolen, (this actually happened to one of my clients!) your external drive will also be stolen. You may argue that you use a USB flash drive and keep it in a safer location and I’ll say that’s good, but they are portable and they suffer wear and tear, so there is a greater chance that they will be lost or damaged beyond repair. Enough said; you probably see the number of ways an external drive solution is not the best.
3a. Regardless, we press on with two ways to use your external drive to back up your data or your system. Actually, those are the two ways. You can use whatever backup program you like, or the one that came with your external drive, to complete a data only or a full system backup. The learning curve on this is pretty flat and you can figure it out in one session.
3b. another way you can get a full system backup is to use a disk image utility. I’ve been using a product by StorageCraft for several years now and it does a flawless job of creating an image of the entire drive. You can even use this image to completely restore a failed computer, with all programs and settings intact, on another computer, even if it is not the same make and model. This same backup and restore process can be used if you are installing a larger hard drive in the same system. If you are only moving data from an old computer to a new one, this image transfer will ensure that you have not left behind some obscure directory of data files essential to little things like email or contacts.
Yes, we could go on about all of the ups and downs of backup and restore processes here, but those are the three ways, including part 3, a and b!
Almost any technical person will agree that any kind of backup is better than none. There must be survey results available on how many tech people would agree that cloud backup is a better approach than on-site or external drive backup systems. However, there is always that security concern with the cloud. And, businesses that deal with sensitive information may have restrictive guidelines with data management that prevents the use of cloud-based systems. That’s material for another article.
Find a way to protect your stuff. Implement it immediately. That proverbial rainy day will come and you’ll be glad you brought an umbrella!
I’m going to strengthen my SEO chops with a challenge:
Soon, a link to the page on the Screenmobile Corporation website for retractable screen doors will appear on the first page of Google search results. Let’ see how long it takes to make this true! I first posted this challenge on Facebook on November 17th. Perhaps we’ll see our result before the end of this year, 2013.
First, we need a few sentences with our target phrase in the mix. Since we want Google to see where we mention retractable screen doors, that phrase is linked to Screenmobile’s web page for that family of products; we’ll have to provide a few morsels of spider chow with that association in place. Yes, we’ve already done it a few times on this page, but if you go to their site, you’ll find that Screenmobile offers no less than nine different manufacturers of retractable screen doors for our linking pleasure.
So, let’s talk about those nine choices right here!
Screenmobile has 9 different choices for Retractable Screen Doors
Video, Is It Right For My Business? – original article by Jeff Harrison of My City Business Review
Video, is it right for your business? This is such a great question. After a bit of research, I discovered some pretty amazing facts about when a video may be appropriate, or in some cases, critical to explaining your service or product to new clients and customers. When it comes to helping visitors to your website really get a full understanding and appreciation of your product or service, if a picture is worth a thousand words, video must be worth a million or more.
Imagine you have a window washing service and you have on video how you arrive in your service vehicle equipped with far more than water, bucket and a squeegee. Your potential customers now have the chance to see you, the person who will be coming to their home or business (familiarity) and exactly what you bring to make your window washing business superior to the competition.
They get to watch step by step how you take extra pride and care in cleaning the inside and out. Even a water spotted window which appeared ruined by a rogue sprinkler may be saved by the extra care shown in your video. When that window shines again, so does your business shine in the eyes of your new customer!
Prospects also get to hear more about your business, like how many years you’ve been in business, the passion you express in your voice of why you do what you do. This helps them realize this is more than just a job to you, as you clearly show just how much you love providing service excellence!
Yes, video can take the potential customer on a tour that will motivate them to pick up the phone and make the call for their appointment with you. Video allows you to close the deal, before you take the call.
This can be done for any kind of service. From Pool Service to Air Conditioning, to Plumbing. You name it and we can make it look good. This is the bridge that convinces the customer to choose you and your business from all the others offered in their search results list.
Ready to get your very own Business Review Video?
Click this link to engage with MyCityBusinessReview!
I’m going to strengthen my SEO chops with a challenge:
Soon, a link to the page on the Screenmobile Corporation website for retractable screen doors will appear on the first page of Google search results. Let’ see how long it takes to make this true! I first posted this challenge on Facebook on November 17th. Perhaps we’ll see our result before the end of this year, 2013.
First, we need a few sentences with our target phrase in the mix. Since we want Google to see where we mention retractable screen doors, that phrase is linked to Screenmobile’s web page for that family of products; we’ll have to provide a few morsels of spider chow with that association in place. Yes, we’ve already done it a few times on this page, but if you go to their site, you’ll find that Screenmobile offers no less than nine different manufacturers of retractable screen doors for our linking pleasure.
So, let’s talk about those nine choices right here!
Screenmobile has 9 different choices for Retractable Screen Doors
Doing a search on this blog for articles on backup, I found only five! I cannot think of another topic, aside from blogging and SEO, that I’ve covered more thoroughly. Thing is, all of my articles on backup have mostly to do with backing up your computer – your photos and documents are the invaluable data that you keep on these infernal machines. You can replace a computer on a whim, but if you don’t have a good backup of your personal stuff, you may suffer the pain of loss that comes with a computer or hard drive crash.
Enough about that and onto the subject at hand…. I did a backup of my website a few months ago, early in 2013. How fortunate for me, since my primary website – rouzell.com was hacked and malicious code was injected into many of the pages on that hosted website. For me, the solution was easy. Grab the copy of my backup, FTP it to a new hosting service, add a few updates (there were several, but they were also easy to find in backup copies of individual pages) and then, with just a little bit of DNS redirect magic, my website was up and running again on Bluehost.com – my current favorite hosting service.
It occurs to me that this (backup, that is) is something I do almost without thinking about it. But now that I’ve had this experience, I will be devoting a bit more of my attention to being diligent with my efforts to preserve my web pages. There must be hundreds of pages by now, if we count each of the blog entries I’ve produced, so there is a volume of work to be preserved through this effort.
I hope you appreciate my sharing these somewhat painful details with you. But if you do have a website, find a way to back up your content. Filezilla is what I used (mindlessly), but I’m sure there are better, even automatic, methods for doing routine backup tasks. Search it out and send email with your results. I’ll be happy to post progress reports.
Palm Desert SEO is the search term I hope you will use to find my service.
Looking for Palm Desert Computer Repair, Rouzell Enterprises, Inc. has what you need. Diligently working toward becoming your Palm Desert SEO Expert; Rouzell Enterprises is a Palm Desert based company providing compassionate care to people who use computers. This includes computer repair and computer support, also computer training and network support, and social media training and support. If you have any need for SEO, or help with computers, networks, or social media, one call to Brian Rouley at Rouzell Enterprises is all it takes to get the help you need. Rouzell Enterprises is your Palm Desert SEO Expert.
Are you looking for the Best SEO in Palm Desert? If so, click that link and come on over to Mousehelp @ Rouzell.
Finally, it dawns on me; “memoir” sounds so much sexier than “blog”.
So, I’ll cheat here just a little….
Having just posted this on my Facebook page, copy and paste saves me many keystrokes.
My Cause – Juniors Teach Seniors Blogging
Looking for Palm Desert Computer Repair, Rouzell Enterprises, Inc. has what you need. Diligently working toward becoming your Palm Desert SEO Expert; Rouzell Enterprises is a Palm Desert based company providing compassionate care to people who use computers. This includes computer repair and computer support, also computer training and network support, and social media training and support. If you have any need for SEO, or help with computers, networks, or social media, one call to Brian Rouley at Rouzell Enterprises is all it takes to get the help you need. Rouzell Enterprises is your Palm Desert SEO Expert.
If you need to know more about mousy search terms, or mouse help, you’ve come to the right place. Here at mousehelp.org, we can answer all of your mousy questions and even provide results for a long-tailed search, like; help me with my mouse – no pun intended! Here we add a link to computer mouse help, so we can compete with number one.
A quick perusal of my blog articles will show you that I have at least a couple of recurring areas of focus. Those are, becoming your local SEO expert in Palm Desert, and promoting VIBENetworking as the preeminent Palm Desert Business Networking group.
Now, there is this third thing. I’ve started to promote a cause, which should soon become a funded project. Since I could not find a simple name for what it is, I just went with the obvious, and called it; “Juniors Teach Seniors Blogging.” If you click the link, you’ll quickly get the idea and hopefully, you’ll think it’s a good one, worthy of your participation.
OK, there’s a fourth thing. It’s in the title of this post. Search for “three things” and click on Three Beautiful Things. Then, start your own. Do it every day and see how much better things are when you start seeing the blessings you have. Pretty soon, you start seeing more of the good in more of the day-to-day things you do. Enjoy the process. It is rewarding.
Looking for Palm Desert Computer Repair, Rouzell Enterprises, Inc. has what you need. Diligently working toward becoming your Palm Desert SEO Expert; Rouzell Enterprises is a Palm Desert based company providing compassionate care to people who use computers. This includes computer repair and computer support, also computer training and network support, and social media training and support. If you have any need for SEO, or help with computers, networks, or social media, one call to Brian Rouley at Rouzell Enterprises is all it takes to get the help you need. Rouzell Enterprises is your Palm Desert SEO Expert.
ACT I Selects 2012 Scholarship Recipients – This story contains a Coachella Valley Fun Radio Interview! http://ow.ly/bEfzL
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Let’s see if I can find a way to make the search for “Screenmobile of Orange County” produce results that show http://www.screenmobile.com/Orange-County at or near the top of page one.
I’m going to strengthen my SEO chops with a challenge:
Soon, a link to the page on the Screenmobile Corporation website for retractable screen doors will appear on the first page of Google search results. Let’ see how long it takes to make this true! I first posted this challenge on Facebook on November 17th. Perhaps we’ll see our result before the end of this year, 2013.
First, we need a few sentences with our target phrase in the mix. Since we want Google to see where we mention retractable screen doors, that phrase is linked to Screenmobile’s web page for that family of products; we’ll have to provide a few morsels of spider chow with that association in place. Yes, we’ve already done it a few times on this page, but if you go to their site, you’ll find that Screenmobile offers no less than nine different manufacturers of retractable screen doors for our linking pleasure.
So, let’s talk about those nine choices right here!
Screenmobile has 9 different choices for Retractable Screen Doors
Palm Desert Computer - Local SEO Expert 