Colin & Anne Brunton

Improve SEO -Google Friendly Site Basics

One of the most annoying things is spending lots of time writing  your own content about a subject you want to help other people with, and you just must try to Improve SEO  Search Engine Optimisation) to get ranked at all in the top 4 pages your topic covers, never mind get page 1 ranking !

First of all you need to let Google know you are a real person who is in control of a good informative website. The best (and easiest) way is to add yourself to the Google + network and then let Google know who has authority to post on your site.

Google Authorship

It is all about telling Google who the author on every post/page and who it is that created the content on your site. This is done by linking your content and your Google Plus profile together.

See Video-

Improve SEO video

Setting up your authorship gives you many benefits that will result in more traffic. If you have targeted your keyword with a program like Jaxxy  will let you fight the good fight in your chosen search term topic. After all whats the point in targeting a term or keyword that has thousands or even millions of competitors. Pick your battles.

Verify your Site With Google Webmaster Tools

If you plan on ranking or even being indexed in Google’s search engine, it’s important that you verify your site with Google Webmaster tools  This will allow you to give Google details about your site, submit sitemap and much more, at the same time this will allow Google to communicate back with you, perhaps pointing out errors, bad backlinks etc.

This should result in better connection with Google and in turn more folks viewing your stuff!

Make your content as readable as possible with no long sentences and check your grammar.  All these count towards good ranking.

Don’t make your post too long either around 350 words is best. Clear Concise and to the point. Browsers have the attention span of goldfish.

Macbook Hard Drive Fail

If you bought a Macbook Retina or the the new Macbook Air’s you should be extra careful with your backup routine as you are in big danger of losing all your files if your Macbook Hard Drive Fails.

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ive Fails are becoming a regular occurrence.

The change to the slimmer SSD drive is a sign of the times!

Consumers want a laptop that is slimmer, faster, lighter and all this with less noise and less heat generation. To cater for these desires computers many high end laptops (including the Macbook Pro ) are being fitted with SSD drives.

Unlike previous internal hard drives the new thinner lighter SSD flash hard drives are almost impossible to recover data from if your Hard Drive goes kaput.

Though it seems that it is a rare occurrence, my experience shows that these new drives do fail!

With one such Macbook Hard drive fail on her 2 year old machine My daughter lost all her University final year drawings and course work when her hard drive failed.

And (ok, that was her fault) there was no back up!

Apple stores were not helpful apart from offering her a new hard drive under her Apple-care warranty. Obviously as the HD had a years worth of Uni work she wanted it back so I offered to buy the failed hard drive.( my idea was to try get data recovery folks to look at it)

I was told it would be £750 to buy the broken hard drive!

I thought OK I will get it looked at then take it back as broken.

The Apple store “help” assistant said I would not be able to return it as it had already been designated “broken”! Catch 22 right enough!

If you arent covered by Applecare then you may want to buy a replacement on Amazon which you can do for much cheaper – see here:

And then if you want to just do it yourself see this video tutorial

Be aware and back up regularly or use the on board Mac Time Machine to do it for you. That will work for you – unlike the geek squad at the Apple Store I visited.